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1. What If the Greatest Comic Book of All Time Were…

Authors : Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo

Published in: The Greatest Comic Book of All Time

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Abstract

Starting from a sociology of culture approach developed by Pierre Bourdieu, the chapter argues that, relative to other art forms, the comics world is relatively underdeveloped in terms of prestige-making institutions. This chapter suggests some of the ways that comics studies in particular has been influenced by traditions in literary studies.

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Tom Spurgeon, “The Top 100 (English-Language) Comics of the Century”, The Comics Journal #210 (February 1999), 34. It should be noted that, as a columnist at that time, Bart Beaty was one of the writers who contributed votes to this list.

Stephen Weiner, The 101 Best Graphic Novels (New York: NBM, 2005); Gene Kannenberg Jr., 500 Essential Graphic Novels: The Ultimate Guide (New York: Collins Design, 2008); Paul Gravett, 1001 Comic Books You Must Read Before You Die (New York: Universe, 2011).

Cf. Leonard Diepeveen and Timothy Van Laar, Artworld Prestige: Arguing Cultural Value (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 22.

Pierre Bourdieu, “The Purpose of Reflexive Sociology (The Chicago Workshop),” interview by Loïc J.D. Wacquant, in An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 119.

Arjun Appadurai, “Introduction: Commodities and the Politics of Value,” in The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, ed. Arjun Appadurai (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 3–63.

Kannenberg, 500 Essential Graphic Novels, 6.

David Bordwell, Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991).

Bordwell, Making Meaning.

D.G. Myers, “MLA Rankings of American Writers,” Commentary, March 26, 2012, https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/03/26/mla-rankings/

Hillary L. Chute, Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014), 14.

See, for example, Pierre Bourdieu, “The Field of Cultural Production, Or: The Economic World Reversed,” Poetics 12, no. 4–5 (1983): 311–56.

Bourdieu, “Field of Cultural Production,” 320; on “artisanal” and “industrial” modes, see Mark C. Rogers, “Understanding Production: The Stylistic Impact of Artisan and Industrial Methods,” International Journal of Comic Art 8, no. 1 (April 15, 2006): 509–17.

Fredric Jameson, “Future City,” New Left Review, II, no. 21 (June 2003): 65–79; see also “Easier to Imagine the End of the World…,” Qlipoth (blog), November 11, 2009, http://qlipoth.blogspot.ca/2009/11/easier-to-imagine-end-of-world.html

Title: What If the Greatest Comic Book of All Time Were…
Authors: Bart Beaty
Benjamin Woo
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Book: The Greatest Comic Book of All Time
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-56196-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-53162-9

Copyright Year: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53162-9_1