Comics and Cultural Studies
- Submitting institution
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University of the Arts, London
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 237
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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- Book title
- The Routledge Companion to Comics
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415729000
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This book chapter provides an introductory survey of the relationship between comics and cultural studies (as an academic discipline) from the 1980s to the mid-2010s. While Comics Studies is often understood in terms of literary studies, which tends towards formal techniques such as close reading, cultural studies prioritises the study of ideology as it is articulated in cultural objects (including comics). This chapter argues that, historically, this strand of thinking has been deeply influential on Comics Studies, and remains salient today. The chapter is notable for its rehabilitation and classification of some key texts in the field in terms of their engagement with ideology, and it is included in a major collection that brings together a wide range of perspectives on comics for a broad academic audience. Along with other research outputs such as ‘A Defining Problem’ and Comics and the Senses, this chapter comprises an examination of the way that the discipline of Comics Studies regards its object, an ongoing theme in Hague’s research.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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