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OverviewMainstream narratives of the graphic novel's development describe the form's ""coming of age,"" its maturation from pulp infancy to literary adulthood. In Arresting Development, Christopher Pizzino questions these established narratives, arguing that the medium's history of censorship and marginalization endures in the minds of its present-day readers and, crucially, its authors. Comics and their writers remain burdened by the stigma of literary illegitimacy and the struggles for status that marked their earlier history. Many graphic novelists are intensely aware of both the medium's troubled past and their own tenuous status in contemporary culture. Arresting Development presents case studies of four key works-Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Charles Burns's Black Hole, and Gilbert Hernandez's Love and Rockets-exploring how their authors engage the problem of comics' cultural standing. Pizzino illuminates the separation of high and low culture, art and pulp, and sophisticated appreciation and vulgar consumption as continual influences that determine the limits of literature, the status of readers, and the value of the very act of reading. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christopher PizzinoPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.367kg ISBN: 9781477310687ISBN 10: 1477310681 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 06 September 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: From the Basement 1. Coming of Age: The Problem of the Bildungsroman 2. Autoclastic Icons: Picturing Illegitimacy 3. Pop Art Comics: Frank Miller 4. The Scandal of Pleasure: Alison Bechdel 5. Rolling in the Gutter: Charles Burns 6. Blood and Fire: Gilbert Hernandez Conclusion: On Becoming a Comics Scholar Notes Works Cited IndexReviewsArresting Development is an excellent point of connection between previous and current scholarship of the contemporary comics era-a project that encourages scholars to embrace the complexity of what it means to read and study comics. * Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature * Author InformationChristopher Pizzino is an assistant professor of contemporary US literature at the University of Georgia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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