Scott Bukatman

Hellboy's World

Comics and Monsters on the Margins

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Produktbeschreibung

Hellboy, Mike Mignolas famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy's Worldshowshow our engagement with Hellboy's worldisa highly aestheticized encounter with comics and their materiality. Scott Bukatmans dynamic study explores how comics produce a heightened adventure of reading in which syntheses of image and word, image sequences, and serial narratives create compelling worlds for the readers imagination to inhabit. Drawing upon other media - including childrens books, sculpture, pulp fiction, cinema, graphic design, painting, and illuminated manuscripts - Bukatman reveals the mechanics of creating a world on the page. He also demonstrates the pleasurable and multiple complexities of the readers experience, invoking the riotous colors of comics that elude rationality and control and delving into shared fictional universes and occult detection, the horror genre and the evocation of the sublime, and the place of abstraction in Mignolas art.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 139mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780520288041
• ISBN-10: 0520288041
• Artikelnr.: 43411366

Autorenporträt

Scott Bukatman is Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. He is author of Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century; Blade Runner, BFI Modern Classics; Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction; and The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit.