[ecrea] The Graphic Novel and Comic Conference - Comics: Cultures & Genres - 13-14 April 2010

> The Graphic Novel and Comic Conference
>
> COMICS: CULTURES & GENRES
>
> Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
> 13-14 April 2010
>
> Comics and graphic novels enjoy a paradoxical relationship with 
> mainstream culture. Their narratives and characters are familiar to 
> mass audiences through their adaptations in film, television and 
> other mass media. However comics' texts are rarely known or read 
> outside comic book cultures. In recent years comics have instigated 
> themselves into the public consciousness due, to a number of diverse 
> circumstances such as the narrative possibilities they offer in an 
> increasingly complex transmedia landscape.
>
> This conference aims to explore the intersections between comic 
> books, graphic novels, their audiences and the ways they reflect the 
> cultures and subcultures that produce them. The conference themes 
> reflect the scope and aims of Routledge's new journal, Journal of 
> Graphic Novels and Comics, edited by David Huxley and Joan Ormrod, 
> (first issue July 2010).
>
> Abstracts of up to 250 words are invited around (but are not 
> confined to) the following issues:
>
> - Genres (horror, romance, superheroes, autobiography, experimental etc)
> - Underground/alternative comics
> - Censorship
> - Online comics
> - Political and topical issues
> - Fans and audiences (subcultures, gender, subcultural production)
> - Comics production and distribution systems
> - Experimental comics
>
> Presentations will be 20 minutes long.
>
> Abstracts should be sent by 15 January 2010 to: David Huxley 
> (<mailto:(D.Huxley /at/ mmu.ac.uk)>(D.Huxley /at/ mmu.ac.uk)) and Joan Ormrod 
> (<mailto:(J.ormrod /at/ mmu.ac.uk)>(J.ormrod /at/ mmu.ac.uk))
>
> Read the full call for papers: 
> <http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/rcomcfp1.pdf>http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/rcomcfp1.pdf 
>
>
> Find out more about the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics: 
> <http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rcom>www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rcom

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