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1 online resource (vii, 81 pages) : color illustrations |
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Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center |
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Thesis (M.A.) Bowling Green State University 2014 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-81) |
| Summary |
Comics studies, as a relatively new field, is still building a canon. However, its criteria for canon-building has been modeled largely after modernist ideas about formal complexity and criteria for disinterested, detached, "objective" aesthetic judgment derived from one of the major philosophical debates in Western thought: the mind-body problem. This thesis analyzes two American independent comics in order to dissect the aspects of a comic work that allow it to be categorized as "art" in the canonical sense. Chris Ware's Building Stories is a sprawling, Byzantine comic that exhibits characteristically modernist ideas about the subordination of the body to the mind and art's relationship to mass culture. Rob Schrab's Scud: The Disposable Assassin provides a counterpoint to Building Stories in its action-heavy stylistic approach, developing ideas about the merging of the mind and the body and the artistic and the commercial. Ultimately, this thesis advocates for a re-evaluation of comics criticism that values the subjective, emotional, and the popular as much as the "objective" areas of formal complexity and logic |
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Mind and body -- In mass media
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Criticism and interpretation
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| Alt Name |
Bowling Green State University, degree granting institution
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OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
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| OCLC # |
881433040 |
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