Unpopular Culture not only makes a highly significant contribution to the field of comics scholarship, but also makes a major contribution to the field of cultural studies in general. The developments which it details and theorises represent the emergence of comics in Europe as an art form with an avant-garde, experimental tendency. The scholarship is remarkable, and the book is groundbreaking. -- Ann Miller School of Modern Languages, University of Leicester Unpopular Culture is a strong book that achieves a very difficult synthesis of a well-researched and wide-ranging geographical overview with a solid, theoretically based argument - Pierre Bourdieu's model of the cultural field enables Beaty to perform a precise and nuanced analysis of aesthetic and economic changes in European comics over time while surveying the work of many of the most notable creators in the field. The writing is both sophisticated and lucid, and the book makes a significant contribution to the critical literature on comics. -- Joseph Witek Department of English, Stetson University
Bart Beaty is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.
"Bart Beaty is an associate professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. 'Unpopular Culture not only makes a highly significant contribution to the field of comics scholarship, but also makes a major contribution to the field of cultural studies in general. The developments which it details and theorises represent the emergence of comics in Europe as an art form with an avant garde, experimental tendency. The scholarship is remarkable, and the book is groundbreaking.' - Ann Miller, School of Modern Languages, University of Leicester"
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