Key Terms in Comics Studies

Description

Key Terms in Comics Studies is a glossary of over 300 terms and critical concepts currently used in the Anglophone academic study of comics, including those from other languages that are currently adopted and used in English. Written by nearly 100 international and contemporary experts from the field, the entries are succinctly defined, exemplified, and referenced. The entries are 250 words or fewer, placed in alphabetical order, and explicitly cross-referenced to others in the book. Key Terms in Comics Studies is an invaluable tool for both students and established researchers alike. Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction: Key Terms in Comics Studies Abstract Comics Abstraction Actively Multisensory Comics Activism Adaptation Advertising Aesthetics Affect Album Allegory Allusion Alterity Alternative Comics Amar Chitra Katha Angle Animation Annual Anti-Hero Applied Comics Archetype Architecture Archive Art Art World Arthrology Artist Assemblage Audience Author Autobiography Autographics Autonomy Avant-Garde Bande Dessinée Biography Black and White Boredom Braiding Breakdown Canon Caption Box Caricature Cartoon Cartoonist Celebrity Censorship Chaperoned Reading Childishness Children’s Comics Class Clear Line Close Reading Close-Up Closure Collaboration Collectors Colour Colourist Comedy Comic Book Comic Strip Comics Comics Ages (Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age) Comics Code Comics Journalism Comics Shop Comics Studies Comix Commodity Composition Constraint Convention (Public Fan Gathering) Conventions Convergence Cosplay Creator Critical Race Theory Cultural Theory Culture Industry Dénouement Depiction Design Détournement Dialogic Diegesis Digital Comics Direct Market Disability Comics Disability Studies Discourse Distant Reading Documentary Double Face-Out Drawing Ecocriticism Education Etching Ethics Ethnicity Exegesis Experimental Comics Fable Fabula Fairy Tales Fanboy/Fangirl Fandom Fantasy Fanzine Feminism Fic Film Floppy Focalisation Folklore Form Fragmentation Frame Fumetti Funny Animal Gag Game Gaze Gekiga Gender Genealogies Genotext Genre Gesture Global Manga Grammatology Grapheme Graphiation Graphic Facilitation Graphic Medicine Graphic Novel Graphic Sketchnoting Grid Groundlevel Gutter Head Shop Hermeneutics Hero Heteroglossia Heterosemiosis History Horror Humour Hybrid Icon Iconography Identity Illness Illumination Illustration Image Imageless Comics Imagetext Imitation Index Influence Inker Interaction Interdisciplinarity Intermediality Intersectionality Intertextuality Irony Kitsch Labour Language Legend Letterer Letters Page LGBTQ+ Life Writing Line Linguistics Literature Lithography Ludology Mail Order Manga Marcinelle School Mark Market Mass Production Materialism Media Mediation Medium Memoir Memory Studies Merchandise Metaphor Migration Mimesis Minicomics Minor Literature Mise-en-Page Mise-en-Scène Mode Modernism Motion Comics Movement Multimodal Metaphor Multimodality Museums Music Myth Narration Narrative Narratology Narrator Nationalism New Materialism Newave Newspaper Strips Ninth Art Nostalgia Novelisation Onomatopoeia Orientalism Page Page Layout Panel Paratext Parody Pastiche Pathographics Pedagogy Penciller Periphery Perspective Phenotext Photography Photonovel Pictorial Runes Picture Book Poetics Point of View Polygraphy Polyphony Polysemy Pop Art Popular Culture Pornography Postcolonialism Posthumanism Postmodernism Poststructuralism Print Production Propaganda Psychoanalysis Publishing Punk Puzzle Comics Queer Comics Race Readers Reading Realism Reception Referent Register Religious Comics Remediation Repetition Representation Reproduction Retcon Rhythm Romance Royalty Payment Satire Schematism Science Fiction Script Self-Publishing Self-Reflexivity Semantics Semiotics Senses Sequence Serialisation Sexuality Shapereader Shōjo Shōnen Sign Silent Comics Situationism Slash Somaesthetics Sound Space Spatial Projection System Spatio-Topia Speech Balloons Splash Stereotypes Story Storyworld Structuralism Style Stylistics Subject Sunday Funnies Superhero Suspense Swiping Syndicates Syuzhet Taste Adjudication Technology Temporality Text Theme Thought Bubble Tijuana Bible Time Trace Tragedy Transitions Translation Transmedia Transnationalism Transtextuality Trauma Trope Typography Underground Utterance Vanishing Point Verisimilitude Vernacular Viewing Villain Visual Culture Visual Language Theory Visualisation Voice War Webcomics Western Witness Wordless Comics Worldbuilding Writer Writing Zine Index