{"product_id":"9781603290616","title":"Teaching the Graphic Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eGraphic novels are now appearing in a great variety of courses: composition, literature, drama, popular culture, travel, art, translation. The thirty-four essays in this volume explore issues that the new art form has posed for teachers at the university level. Among the subjects addressed are *terminology (graphic narrative vs. sequential art, comics vs. comix) *the three outstanding comics-producing cultures today: the American, the Japanese (manga), and the Franco-Belgian (the bande dessinee) *the differences between the techniques of graphic narrative and prose narrative,and between the reading patterns for each *the connections between the graphic novel and film *the lives of the new genre's practitioners (e.g., Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar) *women's contributions to the field (e.g., Lynda Barry) *how the graphic novel has been used to probe difficult moments in history (the Holocaust, 9\/11), deal with social and racial injustice, and voice political satire *postmodernism in the graphic novel (e.g., in the work of Chris Ware) *how the American superhero developed in the Depression and World War II *comix and the 1960s counterculture *the challenges of teaching graphic novels that contain violence and sexual content  The volume concludes with a selected bibliography of the graphic novel and sequential art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44052605665325,"sku":"9781603290616","price":89.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/1298\/2317\/files\/9781603290616.jpg?v=1782647831","url":"https:\/\/lioncrest.com.au\/products\/9781603290616","provider":"Woodslane Education","version":"1.0","type":"link"}