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Auteur de Warhol Invaders (2021) and Understanding Genres in Comics (2020). Comics scholar , writer, player of games, teaching American culture at @UBMontaigne

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Book Cover for: After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism, Andreas Huyssen

After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism

Andreas Huyssen
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@nberlat In After the Great Divide, Andreas Huyssen argues that all of mass culture - as opposed to high culture - was historically framed as feminine.

Paperback, 2008

$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic, Shiamin Kwa

Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic

Shiamin Kwa
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Sur le carnet de lecture de La Brèche (@labrechebd), recension de "Perfect Copies – Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic" de Shiamin Kwa. Une recension par Isabelle Licari-Guillaume (@AnnArmadillo) https://t.co/cRCMs1wFXG https://t.co/R1bucnerZ0

Hardcover, 2023

$72.95$47.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson
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@pandovstrochnis Vermilion Sands, de JG Ballard / Auprès de moi toujours, de Kazuo Ishiguro / The Ministry for the Future, de Kim Stanley Robinson

Paperback, 2021

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts, Blake Scott Ball

Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts

Blake Scott Ball
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@bsb1945 Nouvelle recension sur le carnet biblio de @labrechebd : j'y parle avec enthousiasme de Charlie Brown’s America. The Popular Politics of Peanuts, par Blake Scott Ball.

Hardcover, 2021

$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Downfall

Inio Asano
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@ninthart @Squarehead3331 I've found that reading mangakas describe the experience (Inio Asano in Downfall, Ohba and Obata in Bakuma, Taniguchi in A Zoo in Winter, Riichi Kasai in her blob) is a good way to approach the status of assistants. And I agree that their role is woefully underdiscussed.

Paperback, 2020

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Warhol

Blake Gopnik
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Still thinking about the Warhol case and #SCOTUS's decision. Today, Blake Gopnik in the NYT states "a seven-justice majority released its ruling that Warhol should not, in fact, have used a Lynn Goldsmith photograph of Prince to his own creative ends."

Paperback, 2021

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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