We specialize in hard to find items
All Categories
Teaching the Graphic Novel (Options for Teaching)
Share Tweet
*Price and Stocks may change without prior notice
*Packaging of actual item may differ from photo shown
- Electrical items MAY be 110 volts.
- 7 Day Return Policy
- All products are genuine and original
About Teaching The Graphic Novel
Graphic novels are now appearing in a great variety of courses: composition, literature, drama, popular culture, travel, art, translation. The thirty-four essays in this volume explore issues that the new art form has posed for teachers at the university level. Among the subjects addressed areterminology (graphic narrative vs. sequential art, comics vs. comix)the three outstanding comics-producing cultures today: the American, the Japanese (manga), and the Franco-Belgian (the bande dessinée)the differences between the techniques of graphic narrative and prose narrative,and between the reading patterns for eachthe connections between the graphic novel and filmthe lives of the new genre's practitioners (e.g., Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar)women's contributions to the field (e.g., Lynda Barry)how the graphic novel has been used to probe difficult moments in history (the Holocaust, 9/11), deal with social and racial injustice, and voice political satirepostmodernism in the graphic novel (e.g., in the work of Chris Ware)how the American superhero developed in the Depression and World War IIcomix and the 1960s counterculturethe challenges of teaching graphic novels that contain violence and sexual contentThe volume concludes with a selected bibliography of the graphic novel and sequential art.
