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More or Less Alive: Labor and Race in Comics' Vital Aesthetics
More or Less Alive: Labor and Race in Comics' Vital Aesthetics
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105639
- ISBN
- 9798265480026
- DDC
- 378
- 저자명
- Wei Ling, Tony.
- 서명/저자
- More or Less Alive: Labor and Race in Comics Vital Aesthetics
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Los Angeles, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 257 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-06, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Lee, Rachel C.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약More or Less Alive examines the connection between the unsustainable conditions of overwork, underpay, and instability in which most comics are produced and the recurring figures of overflowing vitality that populate the comics page. Comics scholars have tended to belabor the (il)legitimacy of graphic narrative, split between the reflexes of vouching for the medium's productive social value and of re-inscribing its associations of delinquent American culture. I reframe these apparently contradictory projects as working in concert to valorize graphic form as an untapped aesthetic resource: a medium that offers vitalizing solutions to other fields and that propagates, as byproducts, genres like graphic medicine, comics journalism, and data comics. This assertion of inexhaustible potential draws from a repertoire of bodily figurations that have equated comics with a polymorphous, hyper-productive, and yet pathologized vitality, exemplified by Art Spiegelman's description of the medium as a plasticized body and an "amphetamine-riddled art." How have such fantasies of unfettered life/form steered graphic narrative's aesthetic culture, and how might we understand the broader American histories and fantasies of embodiment from which these fantasies draw? This project reads these bodily fantasies with an eye to the relationship between the work of producing visual culture and the work that visual culture is expected to perform, using comics by Justin Green, David Wojnarowicz, James Romberg, Marguerite Van Cook, Hellen Jo, Sloane Long, Mine Okubo, Richie Pope, and Michael Kennedy as my case studies and interlocutors. While scholars have long discussed the working conditions of assembly-line comics production, More or Less Alive considers the manifold publishing models outside of that scope, including today's digital, DIY, and small press cultures. In doing so, it offers a new analysis of graphic form's vexed relationship to labor, value, and (in)capacity, one that links the urgent organizing efforts of comics workers with longer histories of visualization, vitalism, and race.
- 일반주제명
- American studies
- 일반주제명
- Gender studies
- 일반주제명
- Ethnic studies
- 일반주제명
- Aesthetics
- 키워드
- Comics
- 키워드
- Cultural studies
- 키워드
- Labor
- 키워드
- Vitalism
- 기타저자
- University of California, Los Angeles English 0345
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-06A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17360927▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


