The Visual Narrative Reader
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Author | : Neil Cohn |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2016-01-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1472577914 |
Sequential images are as natural at conveying narratives as verbal language, and have appeared throughout human history, from cave paintings and tapestries right through to modern comics. Contemporary research on this visual language of sequential images has been scattered across several fields: linguistics, psychology, anthropology, art education, comics studies, and others. Only recently has this disparate research begun to be incorporated into a coherent understanding. In The Visual Narrative Reader, Neil Cohn collects chapters that cross these disciplinary divides from many of the foremost international researchers who explore fundamental questions about visual narratives. How does the style of images impact their understanding? How are metaphors and complex meanings conveyed by images? How is meaning understood across sequential images? How do children produce and comprehend sequential images? Are visual narratives beneficial for education and literacy? Do visual narrative systems differ across cultures and historical time periods? This book provides a foundation of research for readers to engage in these fundamental questions and explore the most vital thinking about visual narrative. It collects important papers and introduces review chapters summarizing the literature on specific approaches to understanding visual narratives. The result is a comprehensive “reader” that can be used as a coursebook, a researcher resource and a broad overview of fascinating topics suitable for anyone interested in the growing field of the visual language of comics and visual narratives.
Author | : Clare Painter |
Publisher | : Equinox Publishing (UK) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781781791011 |
This book offers new descriptions of the visual strand of meaning in picture book narratives as a way of furthering the project of 'multimodal' discourse analysis and of explaining the literacy demands and apprenticing techniques of children's earliest literature.
Author | : Neil Cohn |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013-12-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1441174516 |
Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics. Despite this fundamental part of human identity, little work has explored the comprehension and cognitive underpinnings of visual narratives-until now. This work presents a provocative theory: that drawings and sequential images are structured the same as language. Building on contemporary theories from linguistics and cognitive psychology, it argues that comics are written in a visual language of sequential images that combines with text. Like spoken and signed languages, visual narratives use a lexicon of systematic patterns stored in memory, strategies for combining these patterns into meaningful units, and a hierarchic grammar governing the combination of sequential images into coherent expressions. Filled with examples and illustrations, this book details each of these levels of structure, explains how cross-cultural differences arise in diverse visual languages of the world, and describes what the newest neuroscience research reveals about the brain's comprehension of visual narratives. From this emerges the foundation for a new line of research within the linguistic and cognitive sciences, raising intriguing questions about the connections between language and the diversity of humans' expressive behaviours in the mind and brain.
Author | : Neil Cohn |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2016-01-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1472577922 |
Sequential images are as natural at conveying narratives as verbal language, and have appeared throughout human history, from cave paintings and tapestries right through to modern comics. Contemporary research on this visual language of sequential images has been scattered across several fields: linguistics, psychology, anthropology, art education, comics studies, and others. Only recently has this disparate research begun to be incorporated into a coherent understanding. In The Visual Narrative Reader, Neil Cohn collects chapters that cross these disciplinary divides from many of the foremost international researchers who explore fundamental questions about visual narratives. How does the style of images impact their understanding? How are metaphors and complex meanings conveyed by images? How is meaning understood across sequential images? How do children produce and comprehend sequential images? Are visual narratives beneficial for education and literacy? Do visual narrative systems differ across cultures and historical time periods? This book provides a foundation of research for readers to engage in these fundamental questions and explore the most vital thinking about visual narrative. It collects important papers and introduces review chapters summarizing the literature on specific approaches to understanding visual narratives. The result is a comprehensive “reader” that can be used as a coursebook, a researcher resource and a broad overview of fascinating topics suitable for anyone interested in the growing field of the visual language of comics and visual narratives.
Author | : Will Eisner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780961472825 |
Examines the fundamentals of storytelling in comic book style and offers advice on story construction and visual narratives.
Author | : Martin Salisbury |
Publisher | : Laurence King Publishing |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2012-01-30 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 1780673655 |
Children’s picturebooks are the very first books we encounter, and they form an important, constantly evolving, and dynamic sector of the publishing world. But what does it take to create a successful picturebook for children? In seven chapters, this book covers the key stages of conceiving a narrative, creating a visual language and developing storyboards and design of a picturebook. The book includes interviews with leading children’s picturebook illustrators, as well as case studies of their work. The picturebooks and artists featured hail from Australia, Belgium, Cuba, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, the UK and the USA. In this publication, Martin Salisbury and Morag Styles introduce us to the world of children’s picturebooks, providing a solid background to the industry while exploring the key concepts and practices that have gone into the creation of successful picturebooks.
Author | : Clare Painter |
Publisher | : Equinox Publishing |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Offers new descriptions of the visual strand of meaning in picture book narratives as a way of furthering the project of "multimodal". Discourse analysis and of explaining the literacy demands and apprenticing techniques of children's earliest literature.
Author | : Frances S. Goforth |
Publisher | : Wadsworth Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
As a genre text, not an anthology, this text teaches students about literature forms and discusses ways of using literature in the classroom. It is used to give students the background they need to evaluate, select, and use children's literature in their own teaching. A database of current literature is provided with the text and will be updated annually.
Author | : Sharon Ann Taylor-Tidwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Arpilleras |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Assaf Pinkus |
Publisher | : Art Stock Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
The Marian portals in Augsburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Thann and Ulm - products of the Parler workshops - are among the most spectacular and innovative gothic enterprises of the fourteenth century. Teeming with hundreds of sculptured figures set in an elaborate narrative, they share a similar story: the life of the Virgin Mary and stories of the creation. Through a close examination of these visual narratives as a late medieval communication art and through exploration of their visual stories, Assaf Pinkus, professor at the University of Tel Aviv, provides context to understand and appreciate their function within their cultural milieu.