{"title":"The Freedom of the Press:","authors":"M. Gray, L. Wysocki","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":310050,"journal":{"name":"Critical Directions in Comics Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128036068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“There Is a Man with a Typewriter”:","authors":"Y. Erden, Thomas R. Giddens","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":310050,"journal":{"name":"Critical Directions in Comics Studies","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114576403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mask as Anti-Apparatus:","authors":"P. Goodrich, P. Davies","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":310050,"journal":{"name":"Critical Directions in Comics Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129693202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theological “Seeing” of Law:","authors":"Timothy D. Peters, Thomas R. Giddens","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":310050,"journal":{"name":"Critical Directions in Comics Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125351360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Freedom of the Press","authors":"M. Gray","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496828996.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496828996.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter engages with important strands of scholarship on comics work, arguing for a critical comics studies that attends to the political economy, social relations, and material processes of production. It examines the relationship between struggles over the organization of cultural labor and the forms of value inscribed in comics, via the case study of a specific site of British comics production that reimagined how comics work could be organized and the artistic value comics could have– the cooperative Birmingham Arts Lab Press (1969-1982) and its Ar:Zak imprint. Bringing together archival inquiry and participant interviews, wider historical research into the arts lab, alternative press, community arts and underground/alternative comics movements, and Marxist political and aesthetic theory, this chapter analyzes how struggles for an autonomous, democratized, participatory creative practice that took place within this context of comics production were embodied in the material and visual form of the comics made.","PeriodicalId":310050,"journal":{"name":"Critical Directions in Comics Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125577498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comics and Heteroglossia","authors":"P. Davies, L. Wysocki","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.12","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the concept of ‘heteroglossia’ as it might apply to comics production. After adopting the word from Bakhtin, the chapter explores in particular its uses by Martin and White as a component of ‘appraisal’ in language, investigating the ways in which a range of voices might be incorporated in comics form. Using concepts drawn from Michael Halliday, it establishes that there is phylogenetic and ontogenetic dialogue of voices behind comics, before concentrating on the logogenesis of the comics text in the use of hypotactic as well as paratactic forms of image relationship. It argues that the engagement of the reader in mutual text construction, and the necessary incorporation of multiple viewpoints and voices in the text, support the interpersonal and evaluative functions of the comics text.","PeriodicalId":310050,"journal":{"name":"Critical Directions in Comics Studies","volume":"50 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131340107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Politicization of Life and Auto-Thanatopolitics in V for Vendetta","authors":"V. Maksimov, L. Wysocki","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.14","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter offers a biopolitical reading of V for Vendetta using Giorgio Agamben’s topology of sovereign power and bare life. The chapter problematizes the boundaries of sovereign power, arguing that in the zone of indistinction, where bare life and the sovereign come closest to one another in an inextricable bond, by the inability to complete a thanatopolitical act bare life can absorb the potentiality of sovereign violence. Bare life cannot be liberated in the proper sense because its appearance is tied to the politicization of animal life through sovereign power. However, as violence reaches its apogee and biopolitics become thanatopolitics, bare life comes closest to the source of its creation. The chapter concludes by arguing that as the camp encompasses all aspects of life, the dynamics between sovereign power and bare life turn not dis-uniting or emancipatory, but rather “transformative,” “transfigurative” and ultimately, auto-destructive.","PeriodicalId":310050,"journal":{"name":"Critical Directions in Comics Studies","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122143070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Articulating Health Humanities in Graphic Narratives by Medical Illustrators","authors":"L. DeTora, Thomas R. Giddens","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1595mkx.6","url":null,"abstract":"Using a theoretical model of “articulation” gleaned from the rhetoric of health and medicine, this chapter situates graphic narratives by medical illustrators against two strains of health humanities: medical education and humanistic inquiry. It might seem that medical illustration, itself a hybrid discipline that bridges art and medical science, would de facto account for both registers of health humanities, yet the reality is more complex. Ultimately, medical illustrators operate within their own rich traditions. Thus, work like Héloise Chochois’ La Fabrique Des Corps: Des Premièrs Prostéhses à l’Humaine Augmenté (2017) or Kriota Willberg’s The Wandering Uterus (Furor Uterensis) and Contemporary Applications of Ancient Medical Wisdom (2016) present a fertile ground for building an understanding of graphic narrative and medicine that extends beyond the experiences of illness that characterize most current understandings of Graphic Medicine.","PeriodicalId":310050,"journal":{"name":"Critical Directions in Comics Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121672794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}