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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
More or Less Alive: Labor and Race in Comics' Vital Aesthetics

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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  
Graphic narrative
키워드  
Labor
키워드  
Vitalism
기타저자  
University of California, Los Angeles English 0345
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-06A.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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