The Greatest Comic Book of All Time Symbolic Capital and the Field o
This book offers a series of short, provocative essays about value and reputation in the world of American comic books. Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s analyses of fields of cultural production, The Greatest Comic Book of All Time explores why works have th
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THE GREATEST COMIC BOOK OF ALL TIME Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo
Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels Series Editor Roger Sabin University of the Arts London London, United Kingdom
This series concerns Comics Studies – with a capital “c” and a capital “s”. It feels good to write it that way. From emerging as a fringe interest within Literature and Media/Cultural Studies departments, to becoming a minor field, to maturing into the fastest growing field in the Humanities, to becoming a nascent discipline, the journey has been a hard but spectacular one. Those capital letters have been earned. Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels covers all aspects of the comic strip, comic book and graphic novel, explored through clear and informative texts offering expansive coverage and theoretical sophistication. It is international in scope and provides a space in which scholars from all backgrounds can present new thinking about politics, history, aesthetics, production, distribution, and reception, as well as the digital realm. Books appear in one of two forms: traditional monographs of 60-90,000 words and shorter works, part of Palgrave Pivot, of 20-50,000 words. All are rigorously peer-reviewed. Palgrave Pivots include new takes on theory, concise histories, and – not least – considered provocations. After all, Comics Studies may have come a long way, but it can’t progress without a little prodding. Series Editor Roger Sabin is Professor of Popular Culture at the University of the Arts London, UK. His books include Adult Comics: An Introduction, and Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels, and his recent research into 19th century comics is award-winning. He serves on the boards of the main academic journals in the field, and reviews graphic novels for the international media. Also in the series: Documentary Comics: Graphic Truth-telling in a Skeptical Age by Nina Mickwitz The Greatest Comic Book of All Time: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books by Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14643
Bart Beaty • Benjamin Woo
The Greatest Comic Book of All Time Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books
Bart Beaty University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Benjamin Woo Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels ISBN 978-1-137-56196-1 ISBN 978-1-137-53162-9 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53162-9
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