Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels by Julia Round

Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels by Julia Round

This book explores the connections between comics and Gothic from four different angles: historical, formal, cultural and textual. It identifies structures, styles and themes drawn from literary gothic traditions and discusses their presence in British and American comics today, with particular attention to the DC Vertigo imprint. Part One offers an historical approach to British and American comics and Gothic, summarizing the development of both their creative content and critical models, and discussing censorship, allusion and self-awareness. Part Two brings together some of the gothic narrative strategies of comics and reinterprets critical approaches to the comics medium, arguing for an holistic model based around the symbols of the crypt, the spectre and the archive. Part Three then combines cultural and textual analysis, discussing the communities that have built up around comics and gothic artifacts and concluding with case studies of two of the most famous gothic archetypes in comics: the vampire and the zombie.

“Round’s book is a serious and intellectually rigorous examination of the particular intersection of the comics form and the gothic..a most welcome addition to existing scholarship”—Journal of American Culture.

Julia Round is a senior lecturer in the Media School at Bournemouth University, United Kingdom, and co-edits the academic journal Studies in Comics. She has published and presented work internationally on comics, Gothic, narrative and adaptation. She lives in the United Kingdom.

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ISBN 13	9780786449804
ISBN 10	0786449802
Title	Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels
Author	Julia Round
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	McFarland & Co Inc
Year published	2014-02-12
Number of pages	268
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