Representing Acts of Violence in Comics

Nina Mickwitz, Ian Horton, Ian Hague

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351051767
• Subtopic: Media Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

This book is part of a nuanced two-volume examination of the ways in which violence in comics is presented in different texts, genres, cultures and contexts.

Representing Acts of Violence in Comics raises questions about depiction and the act of showing violence, and discusses the ways in which individual moments of violence develop, and are both represented and embodied in comics and graphic novels. Contributors consider the impact of gendered and sexual violence, and examine the ways in which violent acts can be rendered palatable (for example through humour) but also how comics can represent trauma and long lasting repercussions for both perpetrators and victims.

This will be a key text and essential reference for scholars and students at all levels in Comics Studies, and Cultural and Media Studies more generally.

Index

• 120 Days of Sodom 174, 177
• 2000AD 12, 140, 141–4, 147, 151
• 89/11 20, 82
• 9/11 Report, The 66

• Aaron, Jason 45
• Abel (biblical character) 8, 35–7, 39–49
• Aboriginal 71
• aboriginality 78
• Abortion Eve 64
• abuse 2, 11. 119–121, 126, 129–30, 132–3, 145, 149, 153, 171–2, 174, 179–80
• abusive behaviour 120, 130
• accordion fold books 92
• Action 152
• activism 133, 139, 147
• Adam (biblical figure) 35, 39, 45, 63
• Adlard, Charlie 160–1
• Adorno, Theodor 127
• adventure comics 11
• aeroplane see plane
• aesthetic 4, 6, 10, 53–5, 57, 59–60, 64, 66, 72, 76, 121, 125–6
• Agamben, Giorgio 173–177
• age, coming of 9, 72
• agency 11, 76, 80, 89, 143, 15...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• Depiction
• Embodiment
• Humour
• Gendered and Sexual Violence
• Index