Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature by Christopher Pizzino
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Overview: Many graphic novelists are intensely aware of both the medium’s troubled past and their own tenuous status in contemporary culture. Arresting Development presents case studies of four key works—Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Charles Burns’s Black Hole, and Gilbert Hernandez’s Love and Rockets exploring how their authors engage the problem of comics’ cultural standing. Pizzino illuminates the separation of high and low culture, art and pulp, and sophisticated appreciation and vulgar consumption as continual influences that determine the limits of literature, the status of readers, and the value of the very act of reading.
“This extraordinary book is a potential game changer in comics studies. In brilliant analyses of disparate works from the Batman of Frank Miller to the literary memoirs of Alison Bechdel Pizzino reveals an autoclastic and self-questioning tendency in comics and productively challenges the medium’s gentrification. The result is a breathtaking critical synthesis that will spark arguments (of the best kind) and may redraw the very boundaries of the field.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Cultural Studies
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