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Teaching Comics/Teaching with Comics: A Review of With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comic Books

open access: yesThe Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 2020
With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comic Books, edited by Susan E. Kirtley, Antero Garcia, and Peter E. Carlson, University Press of Mississippi, 243 pages, 2020, ISBN 9781496826046 This article reviews With Great Power Comes ...
Lee Skallerup Bessette
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Super-Pop Culture: With Great Power, a Greater Irresponsibility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Analysis of superhero mythology in American comic books and of its ideological contradictions, especially as regards the issue of social ...
De Angelis, V.
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Contrasting roles of school and public libraries in lower primary pupils' reading

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Libraries represent an important institutional component of children's reading socialisation, yet their role is often treated as uniform despite substantial differences between school and public libraries. This study examines how visits to school and public libraries relate to pupils' reading attitudes, practices and self‐assessed reading ...
Kateřina Balcarová, Jiří Balcar
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Disability and Depression in Thor Comic Books

open access: yesDisability Studies Quarterly, 2016
This article explores disability and depression, especially as they relate to masculinity and power, within Thor comics.  Societal interpretations of disability are also discussed in terms of comics' ability to both challenge and reinforce these ...
Alison Elizabeth Germaine
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Translating English Sound Symbolism in Italian Comics: A Corpus-Based Linguistic Analysis across Six Decades (1932–1992)

open access: yesArts, 2020
Linking interdisciplinarity and multimodality in translation studies, this paper will analyse the diachronic translation of English ideophones in Italian Disney comics. This is achieved thanks to the compiling of a bi-directional corpus of sound symbolic
Pier Simone Pischedda
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Children Reading Fiction Books Because They Want To [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper investigates the reading of fiction books by 15-year-olds in 18 OECD countries.It appears that girls fiction books more often than boys, whereas boys read comic books more often than girls.The intensity by which children read fiction books is ...
Ours, J.C. van
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Differential–Surface: Deleuze and Superhero Comics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Gilles Deleuze’s explicit and self-conscious entanglements with the arts are well-known, especially his particular obsession with cinema.  And as multiple theorists of the emerging interdisciplinary field of comics studies have observed, there is a close
Hall, Joshua
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Mayhem Collectibles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
For a store that opened on April Fool’s Day, Mayhem Comics is no joke. It has survived and thrived the ebb and flow of it’s comic book and gaming inclined fans for more than a decade, making a name for itself by continually bringing Ames the largest ...
Klauer, Emerald   +2 more
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Research Interviews in Historical Practice

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
A key difference between collecting life stories and doing research interviews is the role of the interviewer. While training in oral history may focus on using standard scripts to take a life story, research interviews are motivated by specific questions that arise from particular historical projects and are often not primarily focused on the ...
Lara Keuck, Soraya de Chadarevian
wiley   +1 more source

MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2015
In collaboration with Southern Spaces, MARBL Highlights features collections housed at Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Including curators’ comments, archival photographs, as well as brief collection summaries, this blog ...
Clint Fluker
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