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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “dr chris gavaler”
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  • Superhero Comics

    by Dr Chris Gavaler ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Comics Studies
    A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Superhero Comics helps readers explore the most successful and familiar of comic book genres.In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book reveals:·The history of superhero comics-from mythic influences to 21st century evolutions·Cultural contexts-from the formative politics of colonialism, eugenics, KKK vigilantism, and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Creating Comics

    A Writer's and Artist's Guide and Anthology

    by Dr Chris Gavaler, Leigh Ann Beavers ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies
    For creative writers and artists, comics provide unique opportunities for expression – but unique challenges, too. Creating Comics brings together in one volume an authoritative guide to the creative process, with practical drawing exercises throughout and an anthology of comics demonstrating the eclectic possibilities of the form.Creating Comic covers:· Using images to conceive and develop ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Revising Reality

    How Sequels, Remakes, Retcons, and Rejects Explain the World

    by Dr Chris Gavaler, Professor Nat Goldberg ...
    The past is fixed – what happened happened. But our descriptions of that past are in constant flux, creating branching networks of contradictory accounts more complex than any fictional franchise. Revising Reality uses pop culture and media concepts of revision to untangle our real-world histories – with startlingly revelatory results.Novels, comics, films, and TV shows can continue previous ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Comics Form

    The Art of Sequenced Images

    by Dr Chris Gavaler ...
    Answering foundational questions like "what is a comic" and "how do comics work" in original and imaginative ways, this book adapts established, formalist approaches to explaining the experience of reading comics. Taking stock of a multitude of case studies and examples, The Comics Form demonstrates that any object can be read as a comic so long as it displays a set of relevant formal features. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Poetics of Cinema

    by David Bordwell ...
    Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? For Bordwell, films are made things, existing within historical contexts, and aim to create determinate effects. Beginning ... Read more

    $112.99 CAD

  • The Art of Comics

    A Philosophical Approach

    by Aaron Meskin, Roy T. Cook ...
    Series Book 32 - New Directions in Aesthetics
    THE ART OF COMICSThe Art of Comics: A Philosophical Introduction is the first-ever collection of essays published in English devoted to the philosophical questions raised by the art of comics. The volume, which includes a preface by the renowned comics author Warren Ellis, contains ten cutting-edge essays on a range of philosophical topics raised by comics and graphic novels. These include the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Film and Video Editing Theory

    How Editing Creates Meaning

    by Michael Frierson ...
    Film and Video Editing Theory offers an accessible, introductory guide to the practices used to create meaning through editing. In this book, Michael Frierson synthesizes the theories of the most prominent film editors and scholars, from Herbert Zettl, Sergei Eisenstein, and Noël Burch to the work of landmark Hollywood editors like Walter Murch and Edward Dmytryk. In so doing, he maps out a set of ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks

    Edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    Containing forty-eight chapters, The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks is the ultimate guide to picturebooks. It contains a detailed introduction, surveying the history anddevelopment of the field and emphasizing the international and cultural diversity of picturebooks.Divided into five key parts, this volume covers:Concepts and topics – from hybridity and ideology to metafiction and emotions ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Animated Documentary

    by Annabelle Honess Roe ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Animated Documentary, the first book to be published on this fascinating topic, considers how animation is used as a representational strategy in nonfiction film and television and explores the ways animation expands the range and depth of what documentary can show us about the world.On behalf of the Society for Animation Studies(SAS), the Chair of the Jury announced the book as the winner of the ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • New Playwriting Strategies

    A Language-Based Approach to Playwriting

    by Paul C. Castagno ...
    New Playwriting Strategiesoffers a fresh and dynamic approach to playwriting that will be welcomed by teachers and aspiring playwrights alike. ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice

    by Ivan Brunetti ...

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

    by Jill Lepore ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLonglisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearBest Books of August: Barnes & Noble, GoodreadsA New York Times New and Notable TitleA Publishers Weekly Top 10 book of 2026“Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance, and our most vital historian. Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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