Teaching the graphic novel / edited by Stephen E. Tabachnick.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Options for teaching ; 27.
Other Authors: Tabachnick, Stephen Ely
Language:English
Published: New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2009.
Series:Options for teaching ; 27.
Subjects:
Comic books, strips, etc. > Study and teaching.
Graphic novels > Study and teaching.
Physical Description:viii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • THEORETICAL AND AESTHETIC ISSUES. Defining comics in the classroom; or the pros and cons of unfixability / Charles Hatfield
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Laocoön and the lessons of comics / Brian Tucker
  • Reading time in graphic narrative / Eric S. Rabkin
  • Mise-en-page: a vocabulary for page layouts / Jesse Cohn
  • The narrative intersection of image and text: teaching panel frames in comics / Elizabeth Rosen
  • SOCIAL ISSUES. Is there an African American graphic novel? / Michael A. Chaney
  • Teaching Maus to a Holocaust class / Terry Barr
  • Too weenie to deal with all of this "gril stuff": women, comics, and the classroom / Anne N. Thalheimer
  • The graphic novel as a choice of weapons / Tammy Horn
  • Teaching Watchmen in the eake of 9/11 / James Bucky Carter
  • INDIVIDUAL CREATORS. Chris Ware's postmodern pictographic experiments / Anthony D. Baker
  • Teaching Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli's graphic novel adaptation of Paul Auster's City of Glass / Martha Kuhlman
  • The urban studies of Ben Katchor / Mark Feldman
  • The comics as outsider's text: teaching R. Crumb and underground comix / Edward Brunner
  • Revisionist superhero graphic novels: teaching Alan Moore's Watchmen and Frank Miller's Dark Knight books / Darren Harris-Fain.
  • Memory's architecture: American studies and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman / Dana A. Heller
  • Autobifictionalography: making do in Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons / Nathalie op de Beeck
  • Snow White in the city: teaching fables, nursery rhymes, and revisions in graphic novels / Laurie N. Taylor
  • Graphic fictions on graphic subjects: teaching the illustrated medical narrative / Frank L. Cioffi
  • The boundaries of genre: translating shakespeare in Anthony Johnston and Brett Weldele's Julius / J. Caitlin Finlayson
  • Steam Punk and the visualization of the Victorian: teaching Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and From Hell / Christine Ferguson
  • Visualizing the classics: Frank Miller's 300 in a world literature course / Paul D. Streufert
  • COURSES AND CONTEXTS. Seven ways I don't teach comics / Joseph Witek
  • Teaching the graphic travel narrative / M.G.Aune
  • Violent encounters: graphic novels and film in the classroom / John G. Nichols
  • Hero and Holocaust: graphic novels in the undergraduate history classroom / Bryan E. Vizzini
  • It's a word! It's a picture! It's comics! Interdisciplinary approaches to teaching comics / Alison Mandaville and J.P. Avila
  • Comics and the canon: graphic novels, visual narrative, and art history / Claudia Goldstein
  • Teaching Manga: considerations and class exercises / Rachel Hutchinson
  • The cultural dimensions of the Hispanic world seen through its graphic novels / Ana Merino translation by Derek Petrey and Elizabeth Polli
  • A cultural approach to nonnarrative graphic novels: a case study from Flanders / Jan Baetens
  • Interdisciplinary meets cross-cultural: teaching Anime and Manga on a science and technology campus / Pamela Gossin
  • Teaching Franco-Belgian Bande Dessinée / Michael D. Picone
  • RESOURCES. Supporting the teaching of the graphic novel: the role of the academic library / Chris Matz
  • A selected bibliography of the graphic novel and sequential art.