Demanding Respect: The Evolution of the American Comic BookTemple University Press, 7 apr 2009 - 260 pagine How is it that comic books—the once reviled form of lowbrow popular culture—are now the rage for Hollywood blockbusters, the basis for bestselling video games, and the inspiration for literary graphic novels? In Demanding Respect, Paul Lopes immerses himself in the discourse and practices of this art and subculture to provide a social history of the American comic book over the last 75 years. Lopes analyzes the cultural production, reception, and consumption of American comic books throughout American history. He charts the rise of superheroes, the proliferation of serials, and the emergence of graphic novels. Demanding Respect explores how comic books born in the 1930s were perceived as a “menace” in the 1950s, only to later become collectors’ items and eventually “hip” fiction in the 1980s through today. Using a theoretical framework to examine the construction of comic book culture—the artists, publishers, readers and fans—Lopes explains how and why comic books have captured the public’s imagination and gained a fanatic cult following. |
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... literature would probably elicit an angry glare from a member of the cultural cognoscenti. For most of its history the American comic book could get no respect. While official culture held the comic book and comic book artists in such ...
... literature in the mid and late nineteenth century.5 Bourdieu called this period a “heroic age” because this is when writers generated “principles of autonomy” in the French literary field. These principles claimed independence from the ...
... literature, these early movements were not part of a coherent subfield of comic book production. In the 1980s, however, these new approaches to the comic book merged into a more coherent comic book subculture similar to the restricted ...
... literature was besieged by market and other external forces. Individuals in the comic book subculture, however, felt the art form itself was under siege and wholly unappreciated. The 1980s to the present has been a heroic age in comic ...
... literature also provides a rich source on the history and aesthetics of comic books in America. A glance at the most recent academic scholarship also will show that without the long and hard work of writing about the world of comic ...
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The Return of the Superhero and the First Comic Book Rebellion | 61 |
Comic Book Fandom and the Mainstream Pulp Rebellion | 91 |
Alternative Comics and a Rebellion from the Margins | 121 |
New Movements Winning Respect and the Rise of the Graphic Novel | 151 |
The Development of an Art Form | 179 |
Notes | 191 |
Index | 221 |
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