Teaching the Graphic Novel (Paperback)

Introduction Stephen E. TabachnickPart I: Theoretical and Aesthetic IssuesDefining Comics in the Classroom; or, The Pros and Cons of UnfixabilityCharles HatfieldGotthold Ephraim Lessing's Laocoon and the Lessons of ComicsBrian TuckerReading Time in Graphic NarrativeEric S. RabkinMise- en- Page: A Vocabulary for Page Layouts Jesse CohnThe Narrative Intersection of Image and Text: Teaching Panel Frames in Comics Elizabeth RosenPart II: Social IssuesIs There an African American Graphic Novel?Michael A. ChaneyTeaching Maus to a Holocaust ClassTerry BarrToo Weenie to Deal with All of This "Girl Stuff": Women, Comics, and the ClassroomAnne N. ThalheimerThe Graphic Novel as a Choice of WeaponsTammy HornTeaching Watchmen in the Wake of 9/11James Bucky CarterPart III: Individual CreatorsChris Ware's Postmodern Pictographic ExperimentsAnthony D. BakerTeaching Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli's Graphic Novel Adaptation of Paul Auster's City of Glass Martha KuhlmanThe Urban Studies of Ben KatchorMark FeldmanThe Comics as Outsider's Text: Teaching R. Crumb and Underground ComixEdward BrunnerRevisionist Superhero Graphic Novels: Teaching Alan Moore's Watchmen and Frank Miller's Dark Knight BooksDarren Harris- FainMemory's Architecture: American Studies and the Graphic Novels of Art SpiegelmanDana A. HellerAutobifi ctionalography: Making Do in Lynda Barry's One Hundred DemonsNathalie op de BeeckSnow White in the City: Teaching Fables, Nursery Rhymes, and Revisions in Graphic NovelsLaurie N. TaylorGraphic Fictions on Graphic Subjects: Teaching the Illustrated Medical NarrativeFrank L. CioffiThe Boundaries of Genre: Translating Shakespeare in Antony Johnston and Brett Weldele's JuliusJ. Caitlin FinlaysonSteam Punk and the Visualization of the Victorian: Teaching Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and From HellChristine FergusonVisualizing the Classics: Frank Miller's 300 in a World Literature Course Paul D. StreufertPart IV: Courses and ContextsSeven Ways I Don't Teach Comics Joseph WitekTeaching the Graphic Travel Narrative M. G. AuneViolent Encounters: Graphic Novels and Film in the Classroom John G. NicholsHero and Holocaust: Graphic Novels in the Undergraduate History Classroom Bryan E. VizziniIt's a Word! It's a Picture! It's Comics! Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Comics Alison Mandaville and J. P. AvilaComics and the Canon: Graphic Novels, Visual Narrative, and Art History Claudia GoldsteinTeaching Manga: Considerations and Class Exercises Rachael HutchinsonThe Cultural Dimensions of the Hispanic World Seen through Its Graphic Novels Ana MerinoTranslation by Derek Petrey and Elizabeth PolliA Cultural Approach to Nonnarrative Graphic Novels: A Case Study from Flanders Jan BaetensInterdisciplinary Meets Cross- Cultural: Teaching Anime and Manga on a Science and Technology Campus Pamela GossinTeaching Franco- Belgian Bande Dessinee Michael D. PiconePart V: ResourcesSupporting the Teaching of the Graphic Novel: The Role of the Academic Library Chris MatzA Selected Bibliography of the Graphic Novel and Sequential Art Notes on Contributors Index