Understanding genres in comics

Understanding genres in comics / Nicolas Labarre.

This book offers a theoretical framework and numerous cases studies - from early comic books to contemporary graphic novels - to understand the uses of genres in comics. It begins with the assumption that genre is both frequently used and undertheorized in the medium. Drawing from existing genre the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Labarre, Nicolas (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Series:Palgrave studies in comics and graphic novels.
Subjects:
Comic books, strips, etc > History and criticism.
Comic books, strips, etc. > Themes, motives.
The Dr. Mark D. Nevins '86 Collection for the Study of Comics and Graphic Novels
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: genres as formula, genres beyond formula
  • Genres in texts
  • Cluster, resemblances, and exemplars
  • Genres in use, genres as uses
  • Method
  • 2. Are genres media specific?
  • The case for medium specificity
  • Cultural and industrial convergences
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Where are genres in comics?
  • Genre in the paratext
  • Funny animals, genre in the texts
  • Conclusion
  • 4. How genres emerge: horror comics
  • Horrific comics without a genre
  • The institutionalization of horror through intermedial alignment
  • A bifurcated genre, horror and weird
  • Conclusion
  • 5. How genres are maintained: the case of genre curation in crossovers
  • Crossovers as crossovers
  • Emerging architexts
  • Negotiating genre
  • Conclusion
  • 6. The uses of genre: productivity, cultural distinction and shared culture
  • The appeal of the known
  • Genres as intertextual building blocks
  • Cultural memories
  • Cultural hierarchies
  • Conclusion
  • 7. The uses of genre: generic discourses among producing fans
  • Amateurs?
  • Method and platforms
  • Hashtags and genres
  • Conclusion
  • 8. The uses of genres: asserting authority
  • Readers and fans as critics
  • Polite disagreements
  • The amazing Spider Man after 9/11
  • Comicsgate, genre and interpretive power
  • Conclusion
  • 9. Invisible genres and other architexts
  • Literary adaptation as genre
  • Graphic novel, manga, YA
  • Mignola comics and "personal genres"
  • Conclusion
  • 10. Conclusion: beyond genre?

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