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Contexts of violence in comics / edited by Ian Hague, Ian Horton and Nina Mickwitz.

Contributor(s): Hague, Ian, 1986- [editor.] | Horton, Ian [editor.] | Mickwitz, Nina [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781351051866; 1351051865; 9781351051842; 1351051849; 9781351051859; 1351051857; 9781351051835; 1351051830Subject(s): Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism | Graphic novels -- History and criticism | Violence in literature | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture | COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / GeneralDDC classification: 741.5/9 LOC classification: PN6714Online resources: Taylor & Francis | OCLC metadata license agreement
Contents:
Doing justice to the past through the representation of violence : three and ancient Sparta / Lynn Fotheringham -- Comics do not forget : historical memory and experiences of violence in the Spanish Civil War and early Francoism / Enrique del Rey Cabero -- Legacies of war : remembering prisoner of war experiences in French comic books about the Second World War / Claire Gorrara -- "I think we're maybe more or less safe here" : violence and solidarity during the Lebanese civil war in Zeina Abirached's A game for swallows / Mihaela Precup -- In a growing violent temper : the Swedish comic market during World War II / Michael F. Scholz -- Will Eisner and the art of war : educational comics in the American defence industry / Malin Bergström -- Bringing the war back home : reflecting violence in Brian Wood's DMZ / Jörn Ahrens -- Infrastructural violence : urbicide, public space, and postwar reconstruction in recent Lebanese graphic memoirs / Dominic Davies -- The lives of others : figuring grievability and justice in contemporary comics and graphic novels / Golnar Nabizadeh -- Scales of violence, scales of justice, and Nate Powell's Any empire / Alex Link -- Oink : the story of a dangerously funny comic / David Huxley.
Summary: "This book is part of a nuanced two-volume examination of the ways in which violence in comics is presented in different texts, genres, cultures and contexts"-- Provided by publisher.
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"This book is part of a nuanced two-volume examination of the ways in which violence in comics is presented in different texts, genres, cultures and contexts"-- Provided by publisher.

Doing justice to the past through the representation of violence : three and ancient Sparta / Lynn Fotheringham -- Comics do not forget : historical memory and experiences of violence in the Spanish Civil War and early Francoism / Enrique del Rey Cabero -- Legacies of war : remembering prisoner of war experiences in French comic books about the Second World War / Claire Gorrara -- "I think we're maybe more or less safe here" : violence and solidarity during the Lebanese civil war in Zeina Abirached's A game for swallows / Mihaela Precup -- In a growing violent temper : the Swedish comic market during World War II / Michael F. Scholz -- Will Eisner and the art of war : educational comics in the American defence industry / Malin Bergström -- Bringing the war back home : reflecting violence in Brian Wood's DMZ / Jörn Ahrens -- Infrastructural violence : urbicide, public space, and postwar reconstruction in recent Lebanese graphic memoirs / Dominic Davies -- The lives of others : figuring grievability and justice in contemporary comics and graphic novels / Golnar Nabizadeh -- Scales of violence, scales of justice, and Nate Powell's Any empire / Alex Link -- Oink : the story of a dangerously funny comic / David Huxley.

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