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Young People, Comics and Reading Lucia Cedeira Serantes (Queens College, City University of New York)

Young People, Comics and Reading By Lucia Cedeira Serantes (Queens College, City University of New York)

Summary

This Element is founded upon research conducted with seventeen teens and young adults who identify themselves as readers of comics for pleasure. These interviews provide insights about how comics reading evolves with the readers and their overall reading experience. Special attention is paid to the place of female readers in the comics community.

Young People, Comics and Reading Summary

Young People, Comics and Reading: Exploring a Complex Reading Experience by Lucia Cedeira Serantes (Queens College, City University of New York)

Scholars and professionals interested in the study and engagement with young people will find this project relevant to deepening their understanding of reading practices with comics and graphic novels. Comics reading has been an understudied experience despite its potential to enrich our exploration of reading in our currently saturated media landscape. This Element is based on seventeen in-depth interviews with teens and young adults who describe themselves as readers of comics for pleasure. These interviews provide insights about how comics reading evolves with the readers and what they consider a good or bad reading experience. Special attention is paid to the place of female readers in the comics community and material aspects of reading. From these readers, one begins to understand why comics reading is something that young people do not 'grow out of' but an experience that they 'grow with'.

Table of Contents

1. Situating this study: young people, reading practices and comics as reading material; 2. Readers and the comics community: what does it mean to be a comics reader?; 3. The reading experience: encountering comics as reading material; 4. The comics reading experience: beyond denigration, instrumentality and complacency; References.

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NLS9781108445344
9781108445344
1108445349
Young People, Comics and Reading: Exploring a Complex Reading Experience by Lucia Cedeira Serantes (Queens College, City University of New York)
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2019-02-07
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