The comics of Joe Sacco : journalism in a visual world /
"The Comics of Joe Sacco addresses the range of his award-winning work, from his early comics stories as well as his groundbreaking journalism Palestine (1993) and Safe Area to Goražde (2000), to Footnotes in Gaza (2009) and his most recent book The Great War (2013), a graphic history of World...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2015]
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| Series: | Critical approaches to comics artists.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Section I The Form of Comics Journalism
- 1. Time under Siege / Jared Gardner
- 2. Inside and Outside the Frame: Joe Sacco's Safe Area Gorazde / Lan Dong
- 3. Drawing on the Facts: Comics Journalism and the Critique of Objectivity / Isabel Macdonald
- 4. Views from Nowhere: Journalistic Detachment in Palestine / Marc Singer
- Section II Space and Maps
- 5. Mapping Bosnia: Cartographic Representation in Joe Sacco's Graphic Narratives / Edward C. Holland
- 6.A Thousand Plateaus: Mining Entropy in Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt / Georgiana Banita
- 7. The Politics of Space in Joe Sacco's Representations of the Appalachian Coalfields / Richard Todd Stafford
- Section III The Politics and Aesthetics of Joe Sacco's Comics
- 8. Little Things Mean a Lot: The Everyday Material of Palestine / Ann D'Orazio
- 9. John's Story: Joe Sacco's Depiction of "Bare Life" / Øyvind Vagnes.
- 10. Sacco with Badiou: On the Political Ontology of Comics / Alexander Dunst
- 11. Joe Sacco's Comics of Performance / Rebecca Scherr
- Section IV Drawing History, Visualizing World Politics
- 12. Overtaken by Further Developments: The Form of History in Footnotes in Gaza / Ben Owen
- 13. Graphic Representations of Language, Translation, and Culture in Joe Sacco's Comics Journalism / Brigid Maher
- 14. What Washes Up onto the Shore: Contamination and Containment in "The Unwanted" / Maureen Shay
- 15. Teaching World Politics with Joe Sacco: Safe Area Gorazde in the Classroom / Kevin C. Dunn.
