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Bill Hughes started the topic CFP: OGOM & Supernatural Cities present: The Urban Weird in the discussion
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCFP: OGOM & Supernatural Cities present: The Urban Weird
University of Hertfordshire, 6-7 April, 2018
The OGOM Project is known for its imaginative events and symposia, which have often been accompanied by a media frenzy. We were the first to invite vampires into the academy back in 2010. Our most recent endeavour, Company of Wolves:…[Read more]
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Shaun Huston deposited Live/Work: Portland, Oregon as a Place for Comics Creation in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIn the documentary, Comic Book City, Portland, Oregon USA, I construct a representation of the city as a place for comics creation. In this paper, I distill key insights from my interviews with writers, artists, and publishers regarding the decision to live and work in Portland. My documentary research suggests that creators are attracted by…[Read more]
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Shaun Huston deposited Digital Cinema, Montage and Other Visualities in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoDigital technology is enabling a reconceptualization of film and cinema. The pliability of digital media opens up, particularly, the theory and practice of montage to revision. This pliability allows for cheap and easy copying and combining of images, and, relatedly, the transition from film frame to digital screen provides a less precious and…[Read more]
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Ernesto Priego deposited Parables of Care: Instrumentality, Aesthetics and Utility in Devising a Comic for Dementia Caregivers in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoParables of Care: Instrumentality, Aesthetics and Utility in Devising a Comic for Dementia Caregivers. PDF file.
Presented at the 2017 Comics & Medicine Conference: Access Points Seattle. Public Library Central Branch, 15th – 17th June 2017. Seattle, USA.
This set of slides was modified slightly from its original version for online s…[Read more]
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religioncomics deposited Kismet Seventy Years Later: Recognizing the First Genuine Muslim Superhero in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoKismet may not be the first Muslim superhero, but he may be the first worthy of that title. Some buffoonish characters preceded him, and other orientalist caricatures appeared on earlier comics pages, but without either superpowers or other key elements of the genre. This month (March 2014), on the seventieth anniversary of his first appearance,…[Read more]
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Aaron Ricker deposited The Third Side of the Coin: Constructing Superhero Comics Culture as Religious Myth in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThe claim that superhero comics culture is a modern religious and/ or mythopoeic expression has been repeated so often by academic observers of pop culture over the years, it has assumed the dimensions of a modern myth in its own right. Critically evaluating this claim that superhero comics culture is in effect a modern religious or mythopoeic…[Read more]
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E Priego deposited Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics in the group
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe call for papers Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics was published on 30 July 2015. In it, the editors made a public invitation for scholarship that proposed meeting points between the disciplines of jazz studies and comics studies. This editorial discusses the motivations for the collection, the editorial methodology, and the…[Read more]
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The case that hero funnies culture is a cutting edge strict and additionally mythopoeic articulation has been rehashed so frequently by scholarly onlookers of mainstream society throughout the years, it has expected the elements of an advanced fantasy in its very own right..
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