Visualizing Jewish narrative : Jewish comics and graphic novels / edited by Derek Parker Royal.
Publisher: London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (313 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resource001: 45125ISBN: 9781474248815 (e-book)Subject(s): Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism | Graphic novels | Jewish artists | Jews in artGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Visualizing Jewish narrative : Jewish comics and graphic novels.DDC classification: 741.509 LOC classification: PN6710 | .V578 2016Online resources: Click to View| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Examining a wide range of comics and graphic novels - including works by creators such as Will Eisner, Leela Corman, Neil Gaiman, Art Spiegelman, Sarah Glidden and Joe Sacco - this book explores how comics writers and artists have tackled major issues of Jewish identity and culture. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars in contemporary comic book studies, Visualizing Jewish Narrative highlights the ways in which Jewish comics have handled such topics as: ·Biography, autobiography, and Jewish identity ·Gender and sexuality ·Genre - from superheroes to comedy ·The Holocaust ·The Israel-Palestine conflict ·Sources in the Hebrew Bible and Jewish myth Visualizing Jewish Narrative also includes a foreword by Danny Fingeroth, former editor of the Spider-Man line and author of Superman on the Couch and Disguised as Clark Kent ..
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 18, 2016).
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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