<P><EM>Critical Approaches to Comics </EM>offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books, graphic novels, and other sequential art. The authors introduce a wide range of critical perspectives on comics, including fandom, genre, intertextuality, adaptation, gender, narrative, formalism, visual culture, and much more.</P>
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<P>As the first comprehensive introduction to critical methods for studying comics, <EM>Critical Approaches to Comics</EM> is the ideal textbook for a variety of courses in comics studies.</P>
<P>Contributors: Henry Jenkins,&nbsp;&nbsp;David Berona,&nbsp;Joseph Witek, Randy Duncan, Marc Singer, Pascal Lefevre, &nbsp;Andrei Molotiu, Jeff McLaughlin, Amy Kiste Nyberg, Christopher Murray, Mark Rogers, Ian Gordon, Stanford Carpenter, Matthew J. Smith, Brad J. Ricca, Peter Coogan, Leonard Rifas,&nbsp; Jennifer K. Stuller, Ana Merino, Mel Gibson, Jeffrey A. Brown, Brian Swafford</P>
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