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Hellboy's World - Comics and Monsters on the Margins (Paperback)
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Hellboy's World - Comics and Monsters on the Margins (Paperback)
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List price R652
Loot Price R563
Discovery Miles 5 630
You Save R89 (14%)
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Hellboy, Mike Mignola's famed comic book demon hunter, wanders
through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of
weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy's World shows
how our engagement with Hellboy's world is a highly aestheticized
encounter with comics and their materiality. Scott Bukatman's
dynamic study explores how comics produce a heightened "adventure
of reading" in which syntheses of image and word, image sequences,
and serial narratives create compelling worlds for the reader's
imagination to inhabit. Drawing upon other media - including
children's books, sculpture, pulp fiction, cinema, graphic design,
painting, and illuminated manuscripts - Bukatman reveals the
mechanics of creating a world on the page. He also demonstrates the
pleasurable and multiple complexities of the reader's experience,
invoking the riotous colors of comics that elude rationality and
control and delving into shared fictional universes and occult
detection, the horror genre and the evocation of the sublime, and
the place of abstraction in Mignola's art. Monsters populate the
world of Hellboy comics, but Bukatman argues that comics are
themselves little monsters, unruly sites of sensory and cognitive
pleasures that exist, happily, on the margins. The book is not only
a treat for Hellboy fans, but it will entice anyone interested in
the medium of comics and the art of reading.
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Imprint: |
University of California Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2016 |
Authors: |
Scott Bukatman
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Dimensions: |
209 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
280 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-28804-1 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-520-28804-1 |
Barcode: |
9780520288041 |
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