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Graven images : religion in comic books and graphic novels / edited by A. David Lewis and Christine Hoff Kraemer. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Continuum, (c)2010.Description: xii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780826430267
  • 9781441158475
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN6712
  • PN6712.K89.G738 2010
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Contents:
Looking for God in the gutter Douglas Rushkoff -- Christine Hoff Kraemer and A. David Lewis -- Devil's reading: revenge and revelation in American comics Aaron Ricker Parks -- London (and the mind) as sacred-desecrated place in Alan Moore's From hell Emily Taylor Merriman -- Drawing contracts: Will Eisner's legacy Laurence Roth -- Catholic American citizenship: prescriptions for children from Treasure chest of fun and fact (1946-63) Anne Blankenship -- Gold plates, inked pages: the authority of the graphic novel G. St. John Stott -- Comics and religion: theoretical connections Darby Orcutt -- Killing the graven God: visual representations of the divine in comics Andrew Tripp -- Echoes of eternity: Hindu reincarnation motifs in superhero comic books Saurav Mohapatra -- Christianizing of animism in manga and anime: American translations of Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Eriko Ogihara-Schuck -- On Preacher (or, The death of God in pictures) Mike Grimshaw -- Superman graveside: superhero salvation beyond Jesus A. David Lewis -- apocalypse of adolescence": use of the Bildungsroman and superheroic tropes in Mark Millar and Peter Gross's Chosen Julia Round -- From God nose to God's bosom, or How God (and Jack Jackson) began underground comics Clay Kinchen Smith -- Hesitant embace: comic books and evangelicals Kate Netzler -- Narrative and pictorial dualism in Persepolis and the emergence of complexity Kerr Houston -- Machina ex deus: perennialism in comics G. Willow Wilson -- Conversion to narrative: magic as religious language in Grant Morrison's Invisibles Megan Goodwin -- magic circus of the mind": Alan Moore's Promethea and the transformation of consciousness through comics Christine Hoff Kraemer and J. Lawton Winslade -- Religion and Artesia/Religion in Artesia Mark Smylie -- Present gods, absent believers in Sandman Emily Ronald -- Tell-tale visions: the erotic theology of Craig Thompson's Blankets Steve Jungkeit.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Looking for God in the gutter Douglas Rushkoff -- Christine Hoff Kraemer and A. David Lewis -- Devil's reading: revenge and revelation in American comics Aaron Ricker Parks -- London (and the mind) as sacred-desecrated place in Alan Moore's From hell Emily Taylor Merriman -- Drawing contracts: Will Eisner's legacy Laurence Roth -- Catholic American citizenship: prescriptions for children from Treasure chest of fun and fact (1946-63) Anne Blankenship -- Gold plates, inked pages: the authority of the graphic novel G. St. John Stott -- Comics and religion: theoretical connections Darby Orcutt -- Killing the graven God: visual representations of the divine in comics Andrew Tripp -- Echoes of eternity: Hindu reincarnation motifs in superhero comic books Saurav Mohapatra -- Christianizing of animism in manga and anime: American translations of Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Eriko Ogihara-Schuck -- On Preacher (or, The death of God in pictures) Mike Grimshaw -- Superman graveside: superhero salvation beyond Jesus A. David Lewis -- apocalypse of adolescence": use of the Bildungsroman and superheroic tropes in Mark Millar and Peter Gross's Chosen Julia Round -- From God nose to God's bosom, or How God (and Jack Jackson) began underground comics Clay Kinchen Smith -- Hesitant embace: comic books and evangelicals Kate Netzler -- Narrative and pictorial dualism in Persepolis and the emergence of complexity Kerr Houston -- Machina ex deus: perennialism in comics G. Willow Wilson -- Conversion to narrative: magic as religious language in Grant Morrison's Invisibles Megan Goodwin -- magic circus of the mind": Alan Moore's Promethea and the transformation of consciousness through comics Christine Hoff Kraemer and J. Lawton Winslade -- Religion and Artesia/Religion in Artesia Mark Smylie -- Present gods, absent believers in Sandman Emily Ronald -- Tell-tale visions: the erotic theology of Craig Thompson's Blankets Steve Jungkeit.

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