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Hellboy´s World: Comics and Monsters on the Margins
Scott Bukatman
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Description for Hellboy´s World: Comics and Monsters on the Margins
Paperback. 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. This title shows how our engagement with Hellboy is also a highly aestheticized encounter with the medium of comics and the materiality of the book. Num Pages: 272 pages, 71color images. BIC Classification: FXS; FZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
455g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520288041
SKU
V9780520288041
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About Scott Bukatman
Scott Bukatman is Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. He is author of Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century; Blade Runner, BFI Modern Classics; Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction; and The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit. ... Read more
Reviews for Hellboy´s World: Comics and Monsters on the Margins
"Hellboy's World is really a manifesto for a different kind of comics studies." Confessions of an Aca-Fan "Hellboy's World is written with such joyfulness and panache that I find it a pleasure to page through, again and again. Beautifully designed, bountifully illustrated - all scholarly tomes on comic art should look this good."
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