(Ebook) Twelve Cent Archie 1st Edition by Bart Beaty ISBN 9780813590455 0813590450

(Ebook) Twelve Cent Archie 1st Edition by Bart Beaty ISBN 9780813590455 0813590450

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ISBN 10: 0813590450
ISBN 13: 9780813590455
Author: Bart Beaty

For over seventy-five years, Archie and the gang at Riverdale High have been America’s most iconic teenagers, delighting generations of readers with their never-ending exploits. But despite their ubiquity, Archie comics have been relatively ignored by scholars—until now. 

Twelve-Cent Archie is not only the first scholarly study of the Archie comic, it is an innovative creative work in its own right. Inspired by Archie’s own concise storytelling format, renowned comics scholar Bart Beaty divides the book into a hundred short chapters, each devoted to a different aspect of the Archie comics. Fans of the comics will be thrilled to read in-depth examinations of their favorite characters and motifs, including individual chapters devoted to Jughead’s hat and Archie’s sweater-vest. But the book also has plenty to interest newcomers to Riverdale, as it recounts the behind-the-scenes history of the comics and analyzes how Archie helped shape our images of the American teenager. 

As he employs a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, Beaty reveals that the Archie comics themselves were far more eclectic, creative, and self-aware than most critics recognize. Equally comfortable considering everything from the representation of racial diversity to the semiotics of Veronica’s haircut, Twelve-Cent Archie gives a fresh appreciation for America’s most endearing group of teenagers. 

(Ebook) Twelve Cent Archie 1st Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Archie Machine

• The Structure of Archie Comics Publications

• Industrial Production and House Style

• Branding the Archie Universe

Chapter 2: Dan DeCarlo and the Visual Language of Riverdale

• Artist as Author: The Influence of Dan DeCarlo

• Visual Stereotyping and Innovation

• Style, Standardization, and Authorship

Chapter 3: Narrative Repetition and Formula

• Gag Structures and Cyclical Plots

• Seriality Without Continuity

• The Comfort of the Familiar

Chapter 4: Gender, Romance, and Teen Culture

• Betty, Veronica, and the Love Triangle

• The Regulation of Desire

• Teenage Girlhood and Consumerism

Chapter 5: Humor, Irony, and Subversion

• Comedy Conventions in Archie

• Parody, Self-Awareness, and Metatext

• Tensions Between Innocence and Sexuality

Chapter 6: Race, Class, and Absence

• Riverdale as Utopian Whiteness

• Reading What Isn't There

• Archie and Postwar American Ideology

Chapter 7: The Limits of Interpretation

• High Art vs. Low Culture in Comics Criticism

• What Archie Tells Us About Mass Culture

• Can Archie Be "Good"?

Conclusion: Why Archie Matters

• Legacy of the Twelve-Cent Era

• The Value of the Disposable

• Rethinking Aesthetics and Popularity

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