Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “charles hatfield”
Skip side bar filters

  • Comics Studies

    A Guidebook

    Edited by Charles Hatfield, Bart Beaty ...
    Nominee for the 2021 Eisner Awards Best Academic/Scholarly WorkIn the twenty-first century, the field of comics studies has exploded. Scholarship on graphic novels, comic books, comic strips, webcomics, manga, and all forms of comic art has grown at a dizzying pace, with new publications, institutions, and courses springing up everywhere. The field crosses disciplinary and cultural borders and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Superhero Reader

    Edited by Charles Hatfield, Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester ...
    Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture.While superhero comics are a distinct and sometimes disdained branch of comics creation, they are integral to the development of the North ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Hand of Fire

    The Comics Art of Jack Kirby

    by Charles Hatfield ...
    Series series Great Comics Artists Series
    Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defined the drawing and narrative style of Marvel Comics from the 1960s to the present day. Kirby is credited with creating or cocreating a number of Marvel's mainstay properties, among them the X-Men, the Hulk, Thor, and the Silver Surfer. His earlier work ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Avenues of Translation

    The City in Iberian and Latin American Writing

    by Regina Galasso, Evelyn Scaramella, Suzanne Jill Levine, Ilan Stavans, Alicia Borinsky, Christopher Maurer, Nicholas Cifuentes Goodbody, Charles Hatfield, Jennifer Duprey0, Hugh Hazelton1, Esther Allen2, Urayoán Noel3, Peter Bush4 ...
    Winner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited CollectionCities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Limits of Identity

    Politics and Poetics in Latin America

    by Charles Hatfield ...
    Series series Border Hispanisms
    The Limits of Identity is a polemical critique of the repudiation of universalism and the theoretical commitment to identity and difference embedded in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Through original readings of foundational Latin American thinkers (such as José Martí and José Enrique Rodó) and contemporary theorists (such as John Beverley and Doris Sommer), Charles Hatfield reveals ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Hand of Fire

    The Comics Art of Jack Kirby

    by Charles Hatfield ...
    Series series Tom Inge Series on Comics Artists
    CO-WINNER OF THE 2012 EISNER AWARD FOR BEST EDUCATIONAL/SCHOLARLY WORKJack Kirby (1917–1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defined the drawing and narrative style of Marvel Comics from the 1960s to the present day. Kirby is credited with creating or cocreating a number of Marvel's mainstay properties, among ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Superhero Reader

    Edited by Charles Hatfield, Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester ...
    With contributions from Will Brooker, Jeffrey A. Brown, Scott Bukatman, John G. Cawelti, Peter Coogan, Jules Feiffer, Charles Hatfield, Henry Jenkins, Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence, Gerard Jones, Geoff Klock, Karin Kukkonen, Andy Medhurst, Adilifu Nama, Walter Ong, Lorrie Palmer, Richard Reynolds, Trina Robbins, Lillian Robinson, Roger B. Rollin, Gloria Steinem, Jennifer Stuller, Fredric ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Reading Comics

    How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean

    by Douglas Wolk ...
    Suddenly, comics are everywhere: a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant, innovative work and shaping the ideas and images of the rest of contemporary culture. In Reading Comics, critic Douglas Wolk shows us why this is and how it came to be. Wolk illuminates the most dazzling creators of modern comics-from Alan Moore to Alison Bechdel to Dave Sim to Chris Ware -- and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

    $88.99 USD

  • The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero

    Edited by Angela Ndalianis ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. In this cutting edge anthology an international roster of contributors offer original research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys into the film and television variation. As superheroes and their stories have grown with the audiences that ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • David Cronenberg's A History of Violence

    by Bart Beaty ...
    Arguably the most famous and critically acclaimed Canadian filmmaker, David Cronenberg is celebrated equally for his early genre films, like Scanners (1981) and The Fly (1986), and his dark artistic vision in films such as Dead Ringers (1988) and Crash (1996). The 2005 film A History of Violence was a mainstream success that marked Cronenberg's return to the commercial fold of Hollywood after ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Way Hollywood Tells It

    Story and Style in Modern Movies

    by David Bordwell ...
    Hollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? David Bordwell argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well, even in today’s bloated blockbusters. American filmmakers have created a durable tradition—one that we should not be ashamed to call artistic, and one that ... Read more

    $23.79 USD