The Acme Novelty Library
Comic Books, Repetition, and the Return of the New
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5084971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Phillip Thurtle (0000-0002-1339-1560, corresponding author), Robert Mitchell (0000-0001-9347-0092) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 267-297 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Configurations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-1801 • E-ISSN: 1080-6520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/con.0.0038 |
| OpenAlex | W2012346187 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
While some critics have sought to explain the role of disasters in entertainment media by making recourse to the concept of fantasy, we suggest a different approach. Focusing on superhero comic books, we outline what we call a "logic of the anomalous." We argue that comic books foreshadow disasters by allowing readers to explore the consequences of anomalies that emerge from differences in the scales of an industrialized society on the one hand, and the scales of embodied experience on the other. Comic books thus act as a database, or novelty library, of extreme or novel experiences, one that allows its users to explore the potentials inherent in the complexity of industrialized societies. This approach to comic books allows us to coordinate three research traditions-political economic analysis; a phenomenologically oriented tradition of media theory; and science and technology studies-to explain the constitutive role of novelty, repetition, and fantasy in contemporary society
Aesthetics · Art · Comic strip · Comics · Embodied cognition · Entertainment · Fantasy · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Novelty · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |