Multimodal Comics: The Evolution of Comics Studies

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Madeline B. Gangnes (University of Scranton, USA) Christopher Murray (University of Dundee)

Multimodal Comics

The Evolution of Comics Studies

Madeline B. Gangnes (University of Scranton, USA), Christopher Murray (University of Dundee), Julia Round (Bournemouth University)

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Intellect Books
03 May 2024

History of Art & Design Styles; Art techniques & principles; Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Comic book & cartoon art; Literary theory

This volume showcases some of the best research published in the Studies in Comics journal.

Comics have always embraced a diversity of formats, existing in complex relationships with other media, and been dynamic in their response to new technologies and means of distribution. This collection explores interactions between comics and other media and technologies, employing a wide range of theoretical and critical perspectives.

By focusing on key critical concepts within multimodality (transmediality, adaptation, intertextuality) and addressing multiple platforms and media (digital, analog, music, prose, linguistics, graphics), this collection expands and develops existing comics theory and addresses multiple other media and disciplines. This volume demonstrates the evolution of comics studies over the last decade and shows how this research field has engaged with various media and technologies in a continuously evolving, multimodal artistic and production environment.

Edited by: Madeline B. Gangnes (University of Scranton USA), Christopher Murray (University of Dundee), Julia Round (Bournemouth University)
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789389494
ISBN 10: 1789389496
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 03 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Madeline Gangnes is an assistant professor of English at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, USA. She is a co-editor of Studies in Comics and the advisory editor of Sequentials. Her work appears in Studies in Comics, the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, the Victorian Periodicals Review, and Key Terms in Comics Studies, among other publications. Professor Christopher Murray is professor of Comics Studies and English Literature in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He leads the Masters in Comics and Graphic Novels and is director of the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies and Dundee Comics Creative Space. He is a founding co-editor of Studies in Comics. Julia Round’s books include Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels (2014) and the award-winning Gothic for Girls (2019). She is associate professor of English and Comics Studies at Bournemouth University, UK, and one of the founders and co-editors of Studies in Comics journal and the Encapsulations book series.