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Women in Comic Books

open access: yes, 2012
Recently, superheroes have dominated the box office with a number of films and television with years long shows. But, scholars find that there remains a misrepresentation of women as superheroes.
Eddinger, Kacee
core   +1 more source

Piracy Cultures | Do Fans Own Digital Comic Books?: Examining the Copyright and Intellectual Property Attitudes of Comic Book Fans

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2012
As digital comic book consumption continues to rise in popularity, the comic book community appears conflicted over the effects digital scans have on the meaning of collecting and reading comic books.
J. Richard Stevens   +1 more
doaj  

Enseñando la Guerra Civil española en el País Vasco a través del cómic histórico: una propuesta para la educación secundaria

open access: yesClio y Asociados, 2018
The present article offers an intervention proposal for teaching the Spanish Civil War in the Basque Country through comic books for students of history at the second course of Bachillerato.
Iker Saitua
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Management Control Systems and Environmental and Economic Performance: Do Country Characteristics Matter?

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using an integrated framework that combines the natural resource‐based view with contingency theory, this study examines how environmental management control systems (EMCS) build multinational firms' environmental capabilities and balance their environmental and economic performance while accounting for cross‐country contextual conditions.
Kimitaka Nishitani   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Holocaust and the Landscape after the Holocaust in Comic Strips

open access: yesPoznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2015
Since the publication of two comic books entitled Maus by Art Spiegelman, the comics about the Holocaust became a separate category of graphic stories referring to history.
Piotr Forecki
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Using Comic Books to Motivate Literacy Development in the Classroom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The purpose of this review of the literature is to examine ways of using comic books as a new medium to help increase students\u27 motivation to read and increase their skills in literacy.
Real, Adolfo, Jr.
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“You just want to re‐open our biggest wounds, don't you?”: Homeplace ethnography as (polluted) environmental method

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract When I was 12, my family told me a story about their community falling apart and coming together, a time when someone tried putting a nuclear facility in their (our?) hometown. Since we moved when I was too young to remember, the story had little significance until I embarked on a “hometown” ethnographic journey for my dissertation.
Chandler L. Classen
wiley   +1 more source

Comic Books - Images, Words and Language Acquisition : Using comic books as an alternative material for teaching the English language.

open access: yes, 2018
The purpose of the research described in this essay is, by analysing the content of comic books, to (1) evaluate comic books as material for teaching, (2) if possible, to create an exercise that could be used in the classroom in which comic books are ...
Egelström, Christian
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A Semiotic Analysis of Visual Elements Particular to the Medium of Comics in Alan Ford by Max Bunker and Magnus

open access: yesMedijske Studije, 2014
This paper presents the results of a semiotic analysis of visual elements characteristic for the medium of comic books applied to the first seventy-five issues of the Croatian edition of Alan Ford.
Hrvoje Gržina
doaj  

El cómic español desde 1995

open access: yesArbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura, 2011
En los últimos quince años, el cómic ha cambiado mucho en España. Aunque el escaso peso de la industria del cómic no permite a los autores vivir como profesionales, el medio ha ganado prestigio, atención crítica en las páginas culturales y un lugar en ...
Juan Manuel Díaz de Guereñu
doaj   +1 more source

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