The Greatest Comic Book of All Time [electronic resource] : Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books / by Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo.

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Beaty, Bart [author.]

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Series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic NovelsPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2016Description: XI, 156 p. 4 illus. in color. online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781137531629

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:

302.23 23

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P87-P96

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Contents:

1 What If The Greatest Comic Book of All Time Were… -- 2 Maus by Art Spiegelman? -- 3 A Short Story by Robert Crumb? -- 4 A Superhero Story by Jack Kirby? -- 5 Written by Alan Moore? -- 6 The Cage by Martin Vaughn-James -- 7 By Rob Liefeld? -- 8 An Archie Comic? -- 9 Not by a White Man? -- 10 Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi? -- 11 Dave Sim’s Cerebus? -- 12 Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks?. .

In: Springer eBooksSummary: This book offers a series of short, provocative essays about value and reputation in the world of American comic books. Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s analyses of fields of cultural production, The Greatest Comic Book of All Time explores why works have the reputations that they do and what it might take to re-structure the comics world along different principles. .

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This book offers a series of short, provocative essays about value and reputation in the world of American comic books. Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s analyses of fields of cultural production, The Greatest Comic Book of All Time explores why works have the reputations that they do and what it might take to re-structure the comics world along different principles. .