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Leland, Jennie. "The Phoenix Always Rises: The Evolution of Superheroines in Feminist Culture." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2007. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/LelandJ2007.pdf.
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Gagnon, Michel 1969. "Eléments discursifs, sociolinguistiques et actes de parole dans les BD." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=29824.
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This qualitative and quantitative research inquiry presents a study of the dialogues in seven comic books in French. Its primary aim is to discover discursive elements and speech acts that can be found in the conversations of their characters. Its secondary aim is to analyse various question forms and pronouns that are used in speech acts. These findings are then compared with other research on dialogues of native speakers. This study reveals that the language used in comic books does not fully reflect authentic speech of native speakers. This study also aims for the acceptance of comic books by teachers in L2 classrooms. The findings of this study shed light on the linguistic content of comic books and their use as a pedagogical tool.
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Plowman, Nicola Streeten. "A cultural history of feminist cartoons and comics in Britain from 1970 to 2010." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/70775/.
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Van, Staden Leonora. "Bitterkomix en Stripshow : pornografie en satire in Afrikaanse ondergrondse strippe." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1330.
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Smida, Megan Alice Moore Alan. "(Re)telling Ripper in Alan Moore's From hell : history and narrative in the graphic novel." Dayton, Ohio : University of Dayton, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1272574121.
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Thesis (M.A. in English) -- University of Dayton.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed 06/23/10). Advisor: James Boehnlein. Includes bibliographical references (p. 44-46). Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center.
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Breytenbach, Jesse-Ann. "A critical analysis of South African underground comics." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002192.
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In a critical analysis of several independantly produced South African comics of the 1980s and early 1990s, close analysis of the comics leads to an assessment of the artists'intentions and purposes. Discussion of the artists' sources focuses on definitions of different types of comics. What is defined as a comic is usually what has been produced under that definition, and these comics are positioned somewhere between the popular and fine art contexts. As the artists are amateurs, the mechanical structure of comics is exposed through their skill in manipulating, and their initial ignorance of, many comic conventions. By comparison to one another, and to the standard format of commercial comics, some explanation of how a comic works can be reached. The element of closure, bridging the gaps between frames, is unique to comics, and is the most important consideration. Comic artists work with the intangible, creating from static elements an illusion of motion. If the artist deals primarily with what is on the page rather than what is not, the comic remains static. Questions of quality are reliant on the skill with which closure is implemented. The art students who produced these comics are of a generation for whom popular culture is the dominant culture, and they create for an audience of peers. Their cultural milieu is more visual than verbal, and often more media oriented than that of their teachers. They must integrate a fine art training and understanding into the preset rules of a commercial medium. Confronted with the problem of a separation of languages, they evolve a new dialect. Through comparative and critical analyses I will show how this dialect differs from the language of conventional comics, attempting in particular to explain how the mechanics of the cornie medium can limit or expand its communicative potential.
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Gaudry, Frédéric. "Principales caractéristiques de l'esthétique de la bande dessinée et leur application à Chlorophylle." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq25587.pdf.
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Boluk, Stephanie. "The voyager and the visionary : the self as history in Palestine and Louis Riel." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82685.
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Joe Sacco and Chester Brown are two artists who emerged out of a vibrant tradition of autobiographical comics in the eighties and nineties. This paper argues that Sacco's Palestine and Brown's Louis Riel announce a new way of writing the self rejuvenating the autobiographical genre in comic books which has been lamented for having become overused and excessively solipsistic. Sacco's flamboyant expressionism opposes Brown's aesthetic of silence. Brown's silence is configured so that it is not an absence of speech, but a suppression of it in which attention is continually being drawn to the unspoken. A close analysis of Sacco and Brown's comics reveals the different ways in which their complementary aesthetics construct different subject positions for the reader. Sacco simulates a sense of being there and uses his subjectivity as a vehicle for drawing a reader in, while Brown's Louis Riel collapses these distinctions between absence and presence such that there is no point of entry into the work with which a reader can sustain illusory bonds of identification.
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Rohrdanz, Jessica Lynn. "Superheroes for a Superpower: Batman, Spider-Man and the Quest for an American Identity." Connect to resource online, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1242442545.
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Rawson, Angela. "A critical linguistic analysis of a popular comic genre in Japan." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2001. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1021.
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This research will focus on the issue of power and gender in the language of Japanese comics (manga). Comics in Japan are enormously popular and are read by a wide audience. They are aimed at specific audiences and it is my argument that the language of manga helps to reinforce certain social stereotypes - particularly the inferiority of women and the dominance of males. The language of children's manga will be analyzed using the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), which concerns itself with the relation between ideology and power in discourse. The analysis will be at various levels including lexica-semantic, pragmatic, textual and ideological. The texts to be analyzed will be Japanese manga in the original Japanese language. Manga aimed at specific audiences, i.e. young boys and girls, will be analyzed to determine the presence of male-dominant ideology in the text. I argue that an interpretation of the text under the framework of GOA supports the hypothesis that the ideology of male dominance is present in manga and that it has become normalized in Japan.
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Kannemeyer, Anton. "Ikonoklastiese strip, polemiek en Bitterkomix." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/946.
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Thesis (MA (Visual Arts)) -- University of Stellenbosch, 1997168 leaves printed single pages,preliminary pages and numberd pages 1-70.Includes bibliography and 115 illustrations.Digitized at 600 dpi grayscale to pdf format (OCR),using an Bizhub 250 Konica Minolta Scanner.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study considers the history and problematics of the contemporary comic strip, particularly in regard to issues of controversy and iconoclasm. Special attention is paid to the local magazine, Bitterkomix as an example. In Chapter One, the comic medium is identified and discussed as a homogeneous art form. Its independence from both fine arts and literature is explained and the identifying, intrinsic characteristics of the medium are used as a basis for the analysis of form and meaning in selected contemporary comics. Chapter Two provides a brief history of iconoclasm, subversion and controversy surrounding selected comics from the 1950's up to the present. The emphasis is placed on pivotal developments in the medium, particularly in the United States. A link is suggested between the post-war affluence of the American society and the conservative values which underpin it. Because of the many similarities which exist between the value systems of white South Africa and those of the more conservative states of the U.S., a contextual parallel is mooted which identifies the development and impact of controversial comics abroad and the reception which Bitterkomix encountered in South Africa. Chapter Three outlines and analyses this connection, emphasising that Bitterkomix has to be seen in the wider historical context and not simply as an expression of a parochial, "alternative"culture among young Afrikaners. In the final two chapters, satire and the use of stereotypes in the comic form is considered. The study pays particular attention to the publications, Gif, Afrikaner Sekskomix and Loslyf(an Afrikaans skin magazine) in order to establish connections between deviant sexual behaviour in a repressive society.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING:In hierdie werkstuk word die geskiedenis en problematiek van die hedendaagse strip, veral die kontroversieIe en ikonoklastiese aspekte daarvan, aangespreek. As 'n voorbeeld word die aandag veral toegespits op die plaaslike tydskrif, Bitterkomix. In Hoofstuk Een word die stripmedium geidentifiseer en as homogene kunsvorm bespreek. Die medium se onafhanklikheid van beide die Skone Kunste en die Letterkunde word verduidelik en die identifiserende, intrinsieke kenmerke word basies toegepas vir die ontleding van vorm en betekenis in gekose, hedendaagse strips. Hoofstuk Twee bestaan uit 'n kort oorsig van die geskiedenis van ikonoklasme, ondermyning en kontroverse rondom geselekteerde strips vanaf 1950 tot die hede. Die k1em word geplaas op deurslaggewende ontwikkelings in die medium, veral in die Verenigde State. 'n Skakel word voorgestel tussen die na-oorlogse welvaart van die Amerikaanse gemeenskap en die konserwatiewe waardes onderliggend daaraan. As gevolg van die baie ooreenkomste tussen die waarde-sisteme van wit Suid-Afrika en die van die meer konserwatiewe state van die V.S., word 'n kontekstuele parallel vasgestel wat die ontwikkeling en impak van kontroversieIe strips in die buiteland en die reaksie op Bitterkomix in Suid-Afrika, identifiseer. Hoofstuk Drie skets en ontleed hierdie verbintenis en beklemtoon dat Bitterkomix in 'n wyer historiese konteks beskou moet word en nie slegs as 'n uitdrukking van 'n parogiale, "altematiewe" kuItuur onder jong Afrikaners nie. In die laaste twee hoofstukke word satire en die gebruik van stereotipes in die stripvorm oorweeg. Aandag word veral gegee aan die publikasies Gif: Afrikoner Sekskomix, en Loslyf( 'n Afrikaanse sekstydskrif) om kwessies van abnormale seksuele gedrag in 'n repressiewe gemeenskap aan te raak.
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Silva, Luciano Henrique Ferreira da. "O gênero de horror nos quadrinhos brasileiros: linguagem, técnica e trabalho na consolidação de uma industria - 1950/1967." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2012. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/354.
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As primeiras publicações de quadrinhos de terror pela editora La Selva a partir de 1950, iniciaram uma tradição editorial que se prolongaria por cerca de 40 anos no mercado consumidor brasileiro. A popularidade do gênero de horror nos quadrinhos brasileiros permitiu a proliferação, a sobrevivência e o crescimento de muitos pequenos editores, principalmente da periferia paulistana. Dos métodos de importação e adaptação de material da editora La Selva à busca de emancipação e valorização do artista brasileiro pela editora Outubro, temos no quadrinho de terror uma importante fonte de material para uma reflexão sobre práticas de trabalho, organização e metodologia dos editores brasileiros das décadas de 50 e 60. Focalizando a exploração comercial do gênero de horror nestas duas décadas, pretendemos traçar uma abordagem sócio-histórica das relações de trabalho, produção e consumo, sem perder de vista as intermediações entre os diversos grupos sociais envolvidos nestes processos. Correlacionando as interferências entre códigos de técnica e de linguagem entre as diversas mídias, buscaremos comprovar a influência dos meios de comunicação e produção cultural na construção de novas habilidades profissionais, novos métodos e formatos de produtos. Investigando as heranças nos métodos, técnicas e linguagem do legado pulp das revistas de emoção sobre novos formatos como o gibi e a revista de fotonovela, veremos que a introdução destes novos formatos no mercado foi ocasionada pela necessidade de alteração nas escolhas de publicar, rumo à massificação. Neste período histórico de consolidação das indústrias culturais e de convergência das mídias no cenário cultural brasileiro, inter-relacionaremos a tradição editorial dos quadrinhos de terror iniciada pela La Selva e pela Outubro, a popularidade da novela de rádio e do filme cinematográfico. Nas produções de terror de José Mojica Marins e seu folclórico personagem Zé do Caixão veremos a síntese da mescla entre linguagem e técnica transportadas dos quadrinhos para o cinema, seja no transcurso narrativo e visual, como no reaproveitamento de profissionais ligados a tradição de horror nos quadrinhos. Na análise técnica, discursiva e sócio-histórica das obras selecionadas, pretendemos expor a visão destes grupos sobre o desenvolvimento tecnológico, assim como por outro lado, compreendê-lo como resultado da interatividade entre múltiplas áreas e atores sociais.The first publications of horror comics edited by La Selva Publishing since 1950, started an publishing tradition that would last nearly 40 years in the Brazilian consume culture. The popularity of the horror genre in the Brazilian comics allowed the proliferation, survival and growth of many small publishers, mainly allocated on the suburbs of São Paulo. By the methods of importation and adaptation of editorial matter from La Selva Publishing , or because the search for emancipation and development of Brazilian artists by Outubro Publishing, the horror comics becomes an important material source to theoretical research about work practices, organization forms and methodology of Brazilian publishers from the 50’s and 60’s. Focusing the commercial exploitation of horror genre in these two decades, we will make a socio-historical approach of labor relashionship, production and consumption, in view of intermediation between different social groups involved in these processes. Correlating the interferences between language and technical codes among the media, we intend to demonstrate influences of media products and cultural industry to form new professional skills, methods and formats. Investigating the inheritance of methods, techniques and language of the legacy from the pulp fiction in pulp magazines, from which emerged new formats such as comic book and photo-romance magazines, we observe that the introduction of these new formats was caused by the need to change the choices of publishing towards massification. In this historical period of the consolidation of cultural industries and media convergence in the Brazilian cultural scene, we will compare the tradition of horror comics started by La Selva and Outubro, with the popularity of radio broadcast and motion picture film. In the filmography of José Mojica Marins and the popular character Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe), we see a synthesis of the blend betwen technical language and the course of visual narrative, transported from comics to the movies, as the reuse of professionals related to the horror tradition in Brazilian comic. In the technical, discursive and socio-historical analysis about the selected works, we expose the vision of these social groups on technical development, and on the other hand, understand it as a result of interaction between multiple areas and social actors.
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Huen, Yuk-wan, and 禤育昀. "The representation of space and cultural memory in Hong Kong independent comics." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48334601.
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This paper explores the way Hong Kong independent comics encapsulate the essence of the city. Independent comics are distinguished from mainstream comics by their specific mode of production. More significantly they demonstrate an emphasis on subjective personal creativity and craftsmanship, which stands out sharply in the pervasive objective culture in modern society. Adopting an anthropological approach in representing local ways of living, these comics attempt to map an identity of Hong Kong in a way that is free from confusing influences of her postcolonial history, her political subordination to China and the global capitalist forces. The artists of independent comics embrace the essence of local culture by focusing on space and cultural memory and thereby rediscovering the truth and characteristics of life in Hong Kong. As a form of popular cultural text, Hong Kong independent comics package the local identity and history into fashionable goods for cultural consumption. Together with this, the articulation of a shared past creates forces of cohesion that binds the community together and offers a way for the people to negotiate their identity.published_or_final_version
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Beaty, Bart H. "Good expectations : adaptation and middlebrow literacy." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104369.
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The goal of this thesis is to advance understanding of the ways in which discourses of reading, literacy and culture were used to reify class stratification in mid-twentieth-century America. This project uses the examples of The Reader’s Digest magazine and Classics Illustrated comic books to assess the adaptation and the ideologies surrounding textual form. It examines the efforts of self-proclaimed cultural elites to identify and denigrate middlebrow reading habits through dismissive critiques of texts and audiences as one moment in an on-going historical process of domination and exclusion. These avenues of exploration will reveal the complexity and variance of class definition in a pluralist democracy which, it turns out, are still very much a part of contemporary culture. [Pages 101 and 102 are missing.)Le but de cette thèse est de faire progresser la connaissance des manières dont les contexts discursifs de la lecture, de l’alphabétisation et de la culture étaient utilisés en Amérique, au milieu du vingtième siècle, afin de réifier la stratification sociale. Des exemples tels que la revue The Reader ‘s Digest et la bande dessinée Classics Illustrated seront utilisés, dans ce projet, pour illustrer l’adaptation et les idéologies autour de la forme textuelle. Cet ouvrage examine comment ceux qui proclamés par eux-mêmes élites culturelles, ont tenté d’identifier et de dénigrer les habitudes de lecture du lecteur moyen par des critiques dédaigneuses des textes et du public, en un procédé historique persistant de domination et d’exclusion. Ces voies d’exploration révèleront la complexité et la diversité des définitions du concept de classes à l’intérieur d’une démocratie pluraliste, lesquelles, somme toute, cotinuent de faire partie intégrante de la culture contemporaine. [Il manque de pages 101 et 102.]
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Paz, Liber Eugenio. "Tecnologia e cultura nos quadrinhos independentes brasileiros." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2017. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/2946.
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Esse estudo busca realizar reflexões sobre os significados, sentidos, tensões e contradições relacionados ao termo “independente” e sua contraparte, o termo “mainstream”, ligados ao processo de desenvolvimento das histórias em quadrinhos enquanto formação cultural. Essas reflexões são orientadas pelo conjunto de ideias de Raymond Williams, especialmente os conceitos de tecnologia, hegemonia e culturas alternativas, opositoras, residuais e emergentes. O trabalho está estruturado em cinco momentos. Primeiro as histórias em quadrinhos são abordadas como forma cultural e observamos as relações entre cultura e tecnologia no seu processo de formação. A seguir observamos particularidades desse processo dentro do contexto brasileiro. O terceiro momento apresenta os conceitos de Williams sobre culturas alternativas e antecipa a parte voltada para as intensas manifestações culturais da década de 1960 e seus desdobramentos. Finalmente, busca-se traçar uma visão geral do cenário de mudanças que se desenvolve a partir da década de 1980, enfatizando as histórias em quadrinhos publicadas no Brasil. A partir da observação do surgimento e consolidação de eventos como o Troféu HQ Mix e as feiras e bienais de quadrinhos, relacionados a novos processos de publicação e distribuição, buscamos analisar as obras e perfis de quatro autores contemporâneos de quadrinhos e compreender melhor os significados de termos como “independente”, “autoral”, “comercial”, “mainstream”, “alternativo” e outros, de uso comum nas diversas práticas das histórias em quadrinhos. Entre os resultados obtidos, notamos que: muitas das produções “independentes” contemporâneas apresentam características temáticas, estilísticas e materiais praticamente indistinguíveis das produções “mainstream”; algumas produções “mainstream” incorporam temas e propostas de culturas alternativas à hegemonia; o uso termo “independente” muitas vezes encobre as condições desfavoráveis de produção e sustento de diversos profissionais; considerando rigorosamente as culturas opositoras como um conjunto de ações de dimensão revolucionária, é difícil encontrar obras que efetivamente atendam a essa condição.This study seeks to reflect on the meanings, senses, tensions and contradictions related to the term “independent” and its counterpart, the term “mainstream”, connected to the process of development of comics as a cultural formation. These reflections are guided by Raymond William’s set of ideas, especially the concepts of technology, hegemony and alternative, oppositional, residual, and emerging cultures. We structured the work in five moments. First, we approach comics as a cultural form and observe the relations between culture and technology in its process of formation. Next, we observe particularities of this process within the Brazilian context. In a third moment, we present Williams’ concepts on alternative cultures and anticipate the part devoted to the intense cultural manifestations of the 1960s and their unfolding. Finally, we attempt to give an overview of the scenario of changes that develops from the 1980s, emphasizing the comics published in Brazil. From the observation of the emergence and consolidation of events such as the HQ Mix Trophy and the comics fairs and biennials related to new publication and distribution processes, we sought to analyze the works and profiles of four contemporary comic authors and to better understand the meanings of terms such as "independent", "authorial", "commercial", "mainstream", "alternative" and others, commonly used in various comic book practices. Among the results obtained, we noticed that: many contemporary "independent" productions present thematic, stylistic and material characteristics practically indistinguishable from "mainstream" productions; some "mainstream" productions incorporate themes and proposals of cultures that are alternatives to hegemony; the use of the term “independent” often covers the unfavorable conditions of production and livelihood of several professionals; rigorously considering the opposing cultures as a set of actions of a revolutionary dimension, it is difficult to find works that effectively meet this condition.
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Pereira, Priscila 1983. "Entre a épica e a paródia = a (des) mistificação do gaucho nos quadrinhos de Inodoro Pereyra, el renegau." [s.n.], 2011. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/278675.
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Orientador: José Alves de Freitas NetoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: Esta pesquisa analisa as representações do gaucho nos quadrinhos de Inodoro Pereyra, personagem criada pelo humorista argentino Roberto Fontanarrosa na década de 70 do século XX. Nascido como uma paródia da literatura gauchesca, do radioteatro e do folclore argentino, a trajetória do renegau retoma a metáfora sarmientina civilização e barbárie, que atravessa não só a história deste país, mas se inscreve na tradição política de toda a América Latina. Neste sentido, através dos quadrinhos deste gaucho é possível rediscutir importantes questões que marcaram a história da República Argentina, tais como as oposições entre pampa e litoral, unitários e federais, nacionalismo e cosmopolitismo, e que compõem a imagem de uma nação dividida. Além disso, a epopéia vivida pela personagem permite que redimensionemos o tema "as duas Argentinas", tendo em vista que este quadrinho está transpassado por imagens relacionadas ao imaginário social desta nação
Abstract: This research analyzes the representations of the gaucho in the comics of Inodoro Pereyra, a character created by the Argentine comedian Roberto Fontanarrosa, in the 70s of the twentieth century. Born as a parody of Gauchesca literature, of radiotheater and of Argentine folklore, the renegau's trajectory retakes the sarmientina metaphor of civilization and barbarism, which crosses not only the History of this country, but also inscribes itself in all Latin America's political tradition. In this sense, through the comic of this gaucho, it is possible to rediscuss important issues that have marked the history of the Argentine Republic such as the oppositions between pampa and coast, unitary and federal, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, which composes the image of a divided nation. Moreover, the epopee experienced by the character allows us to resize the theme "two Argentinas". Considering that, this comic is transfixed by images related to the social imagination of this nation
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Dedman, Stephen. "Techronomicon (novel) ; and The weapon shop : the relationship between American science fiction and the US military (dissertation)." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0093.
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Techronomicon Techronomicon is a science fiction novel that examines far-future military actions from several different perspectives. Human beings have colonized several planets with help from the enigmatic and more technologically advanced Zhir, who gave spaceships and habitable worlds to those they deemed suitable and their descendants. The Joint Expeditionary Force is the military arm of the Universal Faith, called in when conflicts arise that the Faith decides are beyond the local government and militia and require their intervention. Leneveldt and Roader are JEF officers assigned to Operation Techronomicon, investigating what seems to be a Zhir-built defence shield around the planet Lassana. Another JEF company sent to Kalaabhavan after the murder of the planets Confessor-General loses its CO to a land-mine, and Lieutenant Hellerman reluctantly accepts command. Chevalier, a civilian pilot, takes refugees fleeing military-run detention camps on Ararat to a biological research station on otherwise uninhabited Lila. The biologists on Lila discover a symbiote that enables humans to photosynthesize, which comes to the attention of Operation Techronomicon and the JEF's Weapons Research Division. Leneveldt and Roeder, frustrated by the lack of progress on Lassana, are sent to Lila to detain the biologists, who flee into the swamps. Hellerman's efforts to restore peace on Kalaabhavan are frustrated by the Confessors, and his company finds itself besieged by insurgents. The novel explores individuals' motives for choosing or rejecting violence and/or military service; the lessons they learn about themselves and their enemies; and the possible results of attempts to forcibly suppress ideas.
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Smurthwaite, James Edward. "Black Spider-Man – masks, power and identity in a 21st century superhero world." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24452.
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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2017In November 2011 Marvel Comics introduced the re-imagined incarnation of one of their top tier superhero characters, Spider-Man. Marvel proposed the new identity of the hero as Miles Morales, a 13-year-old boy of African American descent. It represents the first significant alteration to the character in almost half a century. Further, Marvel suggested that Miles is evidence of both their commitment to diversity, transformation and the representation of a multicultural society that includes different identity propositions. This study explores the enunciation on of Miles’ identity counterpoised with that of the normative discursive enunciation of heroism in comics within the context of intersectional politics. A central focus is the manner in which Miles’ rendering can be interpreted as discursively disruptive and transformative, especially in the depiction of race and class. The study views Marvel’s representation of Miles as not only a proposition of black postcolonial heroism but also that of the scaffolding of power and knowledge. It is the contention of this study that UCSM exhibits the markings of colonial and imperial discourse pertaining to identity politics, manifesting in the discursive strategy of mimicry and the mimetics of popular culture, that reveal firmly entrenched power relations limiting Miles’ autonomy. The analysis delves into the articulation of race in the circumscription and demarcation of identity, when read comparatively with classical heroism, supporting characters and the subjectivity of Miles’ white counterparts, notably his predecessor as Spider-Man, Peter Parker. Miles is imprinted with the pattern of disenfranchisement and labours under the weight of racialised identity politics that invoke the spectre of colonialism. Through the use of critical discourse analysis, postcolonial and critical theory the study brings to light the maintenance and structure of inequality, tacit discrimination and stereotypical identity that surfaces in a 21st century popular cultural text.
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"Beijing cartoon: a contested site of cultural production." 1999. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896334.
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by Cheung Hiu Wan.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves [135-140]).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Acknowledgement
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Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction
Chapter 1.1 --- Scope of Study --- p.1
Chapter 1.2 --- Literature Review --- p.3
Chapter 1.3 --- Methodology --- p.13
Chapter 1.4 --- Structure of the Thesis --- p.17
Chapter Chapter 2. --- Historical Development of Comics in China
Chapter 2.1 --- Comics History before1949 --- p.24
Chapter 2 . 2 --- Comics under the Reign of Chinese Communist Party --- p.29
Chapter 2.3 --- Beijing Cartoon after the Open Door Policy --- p.31
Chapter 2.4 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.39
Chapter Chapter 3 . --- Interaction with the Leaders of Beijing Publishing House
Chapter 3.1 --- Leaders´ةExpectation for Beijing Cartoon --- p.41
Chapter 3.2 --- The Discrepancy between the Senior and Junior Editors --- p.51
Chapter 3.3 --- Editors' Comments on Interaction with the Leaders of the Beijing Publishing House --- p.54
Chapter Chapter 4. --- Interaction with the Senior Artists
Chapter 4.1 --- Cartoon Art Festival98 --- p.57
Chapter 4.2 --- The Invasion of Japanese Comics --- p.59
Chapter 4.3 --- The Essence of Comics with Chinese Features --- p.63
Chapter 4.4 --- The Expected Role of the Chinese Government --- p.67
Chapter 4.5 --- The Editors´ة Comments on Cartoon Art Festival98 --- p.68
Chapter 4 . --- 6 Concluding Remarks --- p.70
Chapter Chapter 5. --- Interaction with the Junior Artists
Chapter 5.1 --- Social Status of the Junior Artists --- p.12
Chapter 5.2 --- Cooperation with Beijing Cartoon --- p.11
Chapter 5.3 --- Why do they Join the Comics Business --- p.79
Chapter 5.4 --- Agreement and Terms of Payment --- p.87
Chapter 5.5 --- Summer Camping: Market Mechanism and Autonomy in Artists' Creation --- p.88
Chapter 5.6 --- The Editors' Expectation on the Roles of The Artists --- p.96
Chapter 5.7 --- Artists' Comments on the Educational Aspect of Comics --- p.98
Chapter 5.8 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.102
Chapter Chapter 6. --- The Interaction with the Readers and Elders
Chapter 6.1 --- Whom were and Whom are the Comics for? --- p.104
Chapter 6.2 --- Parents and Teachers: Comics for Education --- p.105
Chapter 6.3 --- Parents and Teachers: Sex and Violence in Japanese Comics --- p.107
Chapter 6.4 --- More than Sex and Violence in Japanese Comics --- p.110
Chapter 6.5 --- Nippon´ؤcentric and Militarism of Japanese Comics --- p.115
Chapter 6.6 --- Better Academic Performances and More Choices --- p.115
Chapter 6.7 --- The Popularity of Comics among the Teenagers --- p.118
Chapter 6.8 --- Feedback from the Comics Readers --- p.121
Chapter 6.9 --- The Conflicts: More Education or More Entertainment --- p.122
Chapter 6.10 --- Concluding Remarks --- p.12 5
Chapter Chapter 7. --- Conclusion --- p.127
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Smith, David. "Batman: Arkham Asylum - a cultural icon seen through the looking glass." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/21835.
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Thesis (M.A. (English))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, 2016.This dissertation examines how particular combinations of image and text in sequential art reflect specific social, historical and political contexts. The analysis of how meaning is constructed is done through consideration of three iterations of the Batman superhero character, and argues for an eventual postmodernisation of the character. The first case study presented is the original version of Batman as it debuted in 1939, which naturally established much of the substance from which later depictions would take their cues. The second case study used is the “camp” 1960s TV series starring Adam West, which was influenced by the highly restricted Batman comics under the Comics Code Authority established in 1954. The main case study, and the central focus of this dissertation, is Batman – Arkham Asylum (1989), a graphic novel by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean, the latest of the three iterations, which represents the eventual disruption of the enforced or constructed harmony evident in the earlier versions of the character into a fracturing and fragmentation both of the world and the self. It is a version of Batman that privileges the interiority and psychological complexity of the character, representing a culmination of the 1980s shift toward a more mature audience with its incorporation of horror, violence and mental turmoil. These three examples are compared and contrasted, showing how each constructs a particular meaning using its own unique combination of image and text. Having established a historicity for the character and having constructed an argument for how Batman as a cultural icon echoes shifts in society, the focus of the dissertation is transferred to a deeper analysis of Arkham and attempts to trace more explicitly its status as a postmodern text by examining its fragmentary nature, its use of intertextuality and how meaning in Arkham is constructed in the mind. Following this, an exploration of the central theme of madness in the graphic novel is provided in order to show how the work both critiques the representation of madness in fiction as well as how the liminal setting of the asylum functions as part of the postmodernisation of Batman by creating a “landscape of madness” where irrationality and the uncanny dominate reality, in contrast to the logical, “left-brain” treatment of Batman which had become common prior to Arkham Asylum. The analysis of the three iterations is shaped by WTJ Mitchell’s theories on imagetext relationships and additionally by the principles of sequential art outlined by Scott McCloud. The postmodern theoretical framework is informed by John Docker’s explorations of fragmentation, intertextuality, inversion and the Carnivalesque. Additionally, the writings of Lillian Feder and Michel Foucault will inform the discussion of madness in Arkham.
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"香港少女讀者閱讀日本愛情漫畫的個案研究." 2006. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896494.
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方敏瑜."2006年9月"
論文(哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2006.
參考文獻(leaves 156-163).
"2006 nian 9 yue"
Abstracts in Chinese and English.
Fang Minyu.
Can kao wen xian (leaves 156-163).
Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2006.
Chapter 第一章： --- 緒論 --- p.1
硏究簡介 --- p.1
香港漫畫簡況與日本愛情漫畫分類 --- p.3
硏究意義 --- p.5
論文結構 --- p.6
Chapter 第二章： --- 理論基礎 --- p.8
文獻回顧 --- p.8
硏究問題 --- p.25
硏究方法 --- p.27
Chapter 第三章: --- 社會處境分析 --- p.33
日本與香港漫畫發展 --- p.33
日本文化之跨境傳入 --- p.39
Chapter 第四章： --- 日本愛情漫畫文本分析 --- p.49
故事內容分析
Chapter 1. --- 故事結構 --- p.49
Chapter 2. --- 故事劇情 --- p.55
Chapter 3. --- 心理分析 --- p.61
Chapter 4. --- 結局分析 --- p.63
人物分析 --- p.64
愛情觀分析 --- p.74
Chapter 第五章： --- 漫畫使用及訊息接收 --- p.89
漫畫文本使用 --- p.89
漫畫意識形態的影響與接收 --- p.103
漫畫閱讀與論述角力 --- p.114
Chapter 第六章： --- 個案硏究 --- p.123
傳媒的男男漫畫論述 --- p.124
男男文化的協商「抗衡」 --- p.133
Chapter 第七章： --- 總結 --- p.140
核心發現 --- p.140
反思與討論 --- p.149
限制和展望 --- p.151
附件
表一 受訪者基本資料 --- p.153
表二 漫畫文本基本資料 --- p.155
參考 --- p.156
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Liu, Ting. "Boys' love in girls' hands : the survival of a gendered youth culture in mainland China and Hong Kong." Phd thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150198.
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Originating in the late-1970s' Japanese comic and fiction culture, boys' love (BL) has become a transnational genre in which young women create, distribute and appreciate stories of male-male relationships in various media, ranging from fiction, comics, music, video films, radio dramas and cosplays (an abbreviation of costume-play), to computer games. Also known as danmei (we indulge in the beautiful) in Chinese, the genre expanded and blossomed in the late-1990s in mainland China and Hong Kong. Grounded in the two relatively unstudied fields, this thesis presents a systematic analysis of a distinctive (and less understood) Chinese BL phenomenon from an ethnographic perspective. Unlike most existing literature which has been focusing on psychoanalysis of BL participation and how followers in different countries accept Japanese BL genre as passive readers, much of this thesis deals with the growing complexity of the production, regulation, representation, consumption, and circulation of local BL practices in mainland China and Hong Kong. It aims to shed lights on how a transnational culture is constructed and indigenised under local social, economic, cultural and political conditions. I argue that young women in mainland China and Hong Kong turn from a passive readership to become active in local BL production through ways such as appreciating and identifying with BL values, participating in creation of the most convenient amateur cultural forms, establishing local BL economies, and using conditional and responding tactics to survive the hostile political and social circumstance. In a weaker status position and a more hostile social circumstance, Chinese participants have to poach resources from the cultural industry and transform their resistance into everyday tactics more actively than their Hong Kong counterparts.
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POZZI, Laura. "The revolution of a little hero : the Sanmao comic strips and the politics of childhood in China, 1935-1962." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/32121.
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Examining Board: Professor Stephen A. Smith, (EUI/All Souls College, University of Oxford) Professor Dirk Moses, (EUI) Professor Barbara Mittler, (University of Heidelberg) Professor Harriet Evans, (University of Westminster).Defence date: 7 July 2014
This thesis analyses the production, content and development of cartoonist Zhang Leping's Sanmao comic strips between 1935 and 1962 in the context of the growing political and cultural significance of childhood in twentieth century China. After years of wars and dramatic political changes, Sanmao is still a recognizable visual icon in China today, and his lasting popularity makes him an interesting case-study for understanding the development of cartoon art and the political deployment of the image of the 'child' in China over the twentieth century. This thesis investigates two main problems: firstly, it aims to analyze how through his strips Zhang Leping intervened in contemporary debates about the significance and role of children in the development of the Chinese nation secondly, it follows the transformation of fictional child-hero Sanmao from a commentator on contemporary China in the early 1930s into a sustainer of the Chinese Communist Party after 1949. While Zhang Leping's comic strips have often been considered as a product of political graphic production or as reading material for children, this thesis analyzes the content of Sanmao strips employing childhood as an analytical category in order to understand the role of children in the political and social discourses which took place in China during war and revolution. By analyzing the production of Sanmao comic strips, their relevance in the political context in which they appeared, and the factors which propelled the popularity of the little hero before and after 1949, this thesis shows how the image of Sanmao has changed over time, and how it was ultimately appropriated and reshaped by the CCP in order to fit the party's official vision of history and educational aims.
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Foster, John E. (John Elwall). "A critical, social and stylistic study of Australian children's comics." 1989. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phf755.pdf.
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McLain, Karline Marie. "Whose immortal picture stories?: Amar Chitra Katha and the construction of Indian identities." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1631.
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Abraham, Lucie F. "Tintin in the classroom : engaging students in the study of the past through comics." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:46379.
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Leaners in the 21st century acquire as much knowledge about the past from films, novels, comic books and other popular forms of entertainment as they do from the classroom. Ongoing debate surrounding the use of alternate media to record and depict the past, coupled with the 2017 introduction of the New South Wales Education Standards Authority Syllabus presents an opportunity for an examination of popular media depictions of history to engage students. Approaching the syllabus through the familiar and entertaining medium of comic books potentially bridges students’ experiences of history in the classroom and representations encountered in everyday life, and can be used to develop analytical skills in historical enquiry, theories of history, as well as skills in communication and critical thinking.
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Johnson, Tara Jessica. "Representations of trauma in autobiographical graphic narratives." 2014. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1747403.
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This study has analyzed the relationship between trauma and otherness in two autobiographical graphic narratives. The study suggests that autobiographical graphic narratives are better equipped to represent the effects, mainly that of otherness, on the self as a result of trauma. In the ten volume manga series Barefoot Gen, Keiji Nakazawa details his childhood survival of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II. As he rebuilds his life, fellow survivals that look like his deceased family members recall his trauma of the bombing. Like we see in Nakazawa’s Barefoot Gen, Art Spiegelman also uses repetitious imagery and a fragmentary form of comic narration to represent the experience of trauma throughout In the Shadow of No Towers. However, while Nakazawa repeats specific imagery of the atomic bombing throughout Barefoot Gen based on his eyewitness testimony, Spiegelman manipulates imagery of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to reject the notion that only one specific set of images can represent a traumatic event. Thus, by the end of the second section of In the Shadow of No Towers, Spiegelman creates a multiplicity of images to reenact the trauma of 9/11.Access to thesis permanently restricted to Ball State community only.
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Nagaike, Kazumi. "Japanese women writers watch a boy being beaten by his father : male homosexual fantasies, female sexuality and desire." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/16962.
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This thesis discusses narrative texts by Japanese female writers and popular manga
artists* that deal with fantasies of male-male sex. It applies a variety of psychoanalytic
theories (Freudian, Kleinian, feminist and so forth) to demonstrate how fantasies about male
homosexuality may be analyzed in terms of the psychological orientations of the many
Japanese women who are the readers of this narrative genre. I also discuss a variety of
themes that often accompany and appear to support female fantasies of male homosexuality:
the concept of Thomme fatal' in Mori Mari's male homosexual trilogy; sadomasochism in
Kono Taeko's "Toddler-Hunting"; the decadent aestheticism of Okamoto Kanoko's "The
Bygone World'; postmodernism in Matsuura Rieko's The Reverse Version; and the concept of
. pornography as it relates to yaoi manga. * *
In attempting to analyze the discursive aspects of female fantasies of male
homosexuality, I begin with an examination of Sigmund Freud's article, "A Child is Being
Beaten," in which he refers to the female scoptophilic impulse. Several Japanese female
writers—Kono Taeko, in particular—provide clear examples of narratives that parallel
Freud's model of the beating fantasy. This female scoptophilic desire to watch a male
homoerotic 'show' is activated by a psychological orientation such as that defined by Klein's
model of projective identification: female characters and readers project their 'unbalanced
egos' onto male homosexual characters, and this enhances the processes of identification with
and (scoptophilic) dissociation from these characters—which in turn create the possibility of
regaining psychological 'balance.'
One of the main themes of my analysis is the development of subconscious female
desires to access the bisexual (simultaneously masculine and feminine) body. I discuss the
idealization of the shorten (boy) identity (in "Toddler-Hunting" and The Reverse Version) and
the image of the 'reversible couple' in yaoi manga as specific forms of a sexual discourse
that presents possibilities of escape from the arbitrary, socially-constructed, but
institutionalized concepts of the female body.
*manga: narrative comic books for readers of all ages
**yaoi manga: a subgenre of comic books by and for women that feature male-male
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Jones, Stephen Matthew. "Frank Miller's Ideals of Heroism." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/898.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2007.Title from screen (viewed on May 23, 2007) Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-110)