Keywords for Comics Studies
Keywords for Comics Studies by Ramzi Fawaz, published by NYU Press on June 8, 2021, is a comprehensive exploration of the interdisciplinary vocabulary surrounding comics and sequential art. This edition, comprising 288 pages, introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories that define the evolving field of comics studies. Through more than fifty original essays, the book presents a rich array of analyses that connect creative, conceptual, and genre-specific terms to broader contexts within the humanities.
Readers will find inventive discussions on topics such as aesthetics, identity, and cultural politics, as well as insights into how comics serve as both an object of analysis and a medium for new theoretical developments. The essays cover a diverse range of terms, including those related to popular genres and canonical works, while also addressing contemporary issues like disability and audience reception. Keywords for Comics Studies offers a nuanced perspective on one of the most popular visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, highlighting new avenues for research and understanding within this dynamic field.
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Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies
Across more than fifty original essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The essays also identify new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Keywords for Comics Studies presents an array of inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art that are traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative and aesthetic terms like Ink, Creator, Border, and Panel; conceptual terms such as Trans*, Disability, Universe, and Fantasy; genre terms like Zine, Pornography, Superhero, and Manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie, Watchmen, and Love and Rockets.
This volume ties each specific comic studies keyword to the larger context of the term within the humanities. Essays demonstrate how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics, and more. Keywords for Comics Studies revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field’s most compelling and imaginative ideas.
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