The Narratology Of Comic Art
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Author | : Kai Mikkonen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2017-05-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1315410117 |
By placing comics in a lively dialogue with contemporary narrative theory, The Narratology of Comic Art builds a systematic theory of narrative comics, going beyond the typical focus on the Anglophone tradition. This involves not just the exploration of those properties in comics that can be meaningfully investigated with existing narrative theory, but an interpretive study of the potential in narratological concepts and analytical procedures that has hitherto been overlooked. This research monograph is, then, not an application of narratology in the medium and art of comics, but a revision of narratological concepts and approaches through the study of narrative comics. Thus, while narratology is brought to bear on comics, equally comics are brought to bear on narratology.
Author | : Daniel Stein |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 2015-04-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110427729 |
This essay collection examines the theory and history of graphic narrative as one of the most interesting and versatile forms of storytelling in contemporary media culture. Its contributions test the applicability of narratological concepts to graphic narrative, examine aspects of graphic narrative beyond the ‘single work’, consider the development of particular narrative strategies within individual genres, and trace the forms and functions of graphic narrative across cultures. Analyzing a wide range of texts, genres, and narrative strategies from both theoretical and historical perspectives, the international group of scholars gathered here offers state-of-the-art research on graphic narrative in the context of an increasingly postclassical and transmedial narratology. This is the revised second edition of From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels, which was originally published in the Narratologia series.
Author | : Roanne Bell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Comic books, strips, etc |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Barbara Postema |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Comic books, strips, etc |
ISBN | : 9781933360966 |
Author | : Will Eisner |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2008-07-29 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 039333127X |
Learn how to control a story effectively using a broad array of techniques. With examples from Will Eisner's own catalog and other masters, this book distills the art of graphic storytelling into principles that every comic artist, writer, and filmmaker should know.
Author | : Thierry Groensteen |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2013-02-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1628467967 |
This book is the follow-up to Thierry Groensteen's groundbreaking The System of Comics, in which the leading French-language comics theorist set out to investigate how the medium functions, introducing the principle of iconic solidarity, and showing the systems that underlie the articulation between panels at three levels: page layout, linear sequence, and nonsequential links woven through the comic book as a whole. He now develops that analysis further, using examples from a very wide range of comics, including the work of American artists such as Chris Ware and Robert Crumb. He tests out his theoretical framework by bringing it up against cases that challenge it, such as abstract comics, digital comics and shojo manga, and offers insightful reflections on these innovations. In addition, he includes lengthy chapters on three areas not covered in the first book. First, he explores the role of the narrator, both verbal and visual, and the particular issues that arise out of narration in autobiographical comics. Second, Groensteen tackles the question of rhythm in comics, and the skill demonstrated by virtuoso artists in intertwining different rhythms over and above the basic beat provided by the discontinuity of the panels. And third he resets the relationship of comics to contemporary art, conditioned by cultural history and aesthetic traditions but evolving recently as comics artists move onto avant-garde terrain.
Author | : Roanne Bell |
Publisher | : Laurence King Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Comic books, strips, etc |
ISBN | : 9781856694148 |
A fascinating collection of works from some of the world's most talented creators of comic art and narrative illustration
Author | : Will Eisner |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2008-08-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0393346838 |
The final volume of Will Eisner’s celebrated instructional trilogy explores the critical principle of body grammar in comics storytelling. Designed and outlined by Will Eisner before his death in 2005, this posthumous masterwork, the third and final book in the Will Eisner Instructional Series, finally reveals the secrets of Eisner’s own techniques and theories of movement, body mechanics, facial expressions, and posture: the key components of graphic storytelling. From his earliest comics, including the celebrated Spirit, to his pioneering graphic novels, Eisner understood that the proper use of anatomy is crucial to effective storytelling. His control over the mechanical and intuitive skills necessary for its application set him apart among comics artists, and his principles of body grammar have proven invaluable to legions of students in overcoming what is perhaps the most challenging aspect of creating comics. Buttressed by dozens of illustrations, which display Eisner’s mastery of expression, both subtle and overt, Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative will benefit comics fans, students, and teachers and is destined to become the essential primer on the craft.
Author | : Achim Hescher |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2016-02-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110445395 |
Distinguishing the graphic novel from other types of comic books has presented problems due to the fuzziness of category boundaries. Against the backdrop of prototype theory, the author establishes the graphic novel as a genre whose core feature is complexity, which again is defined by seven gradable subcategories: 1) multilayered plot and narration, 2) multireferential use of color, 3) complex text-image relation, 4) meaning-enhancing panel design and layout, 5) structural performativity, 6) references to texts/media, and 7) self-referential and metafictional devices. Regarding the subcategory of narration, the existence of a narrator as known from classical narratology can no longer be assumed. In addition, conventional focalization cannot account for two crucial parameters of the comics image: what is shown (point of view, including mise en scène) and what is seen (character perception). On the basis of François Jost’s concepts of ocularization and focalization, this book presents an analytical framework for graphic novels beyond conventional narratology and finally discusses aspects of subjectivity, a focal paradigm in the latest research. It is intended for advanced students of literature, scholars, and comics experts.
Author | : Kristy Beers Fägersten |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2021-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000404595 |
This edited collection explores how the relationship between comic art and feminism has been shaped by global, transnational, and local trends, curating analyses of multinational comic art that encompass themes of gender, sexuality, power, vulnerability, assault, abuse, taboo, and trauma. The chapters illuminate in turn the defining features of the aesthetics, materiality, and thematic content of their source material – often expressed with humorous undertones of self-reflection or social criticism – as well as recurring strategies of visualising and narrating female experiences. Broadening the research perspective of feminist comics to include national comics cultures peripheral to the cultural centers of Anglo-American, Franco-Belgian, and Japanese comics, the anthology explores how the dominant narrative or history of canonical works can be challenged or deconstructed by local histories of comics and feminism and their transnational connections, and how local histories complement or challenge the current understanding of the relationship between feminism and comic art. This is an essential collection for scholars and students in comics studies, women and gender studies, media studies, and literature.