Multimodal Comics

The Evolution of Comics Studies

Madeline B. Gangnes, Christopher Murray, Julia Round (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

300 Seiten

2024
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78938-949-4 (ISBN)

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Multimodality is of increasing relevance to daily life. Comics are a unique and informative site to study this concept, as they rely on complex interactions between word and image. This collection brings together leading international research, developing comics theory and speaking to additional media and disciplines. 53 b&w and 6 col. illus.

Comics have always embraced a diversity of formats, existing in complex relationships to other media, and been dynamic in their response to new technologies and means of distribution. This collection explores interactions between comics, other media and technologies, employing a wide range of theoretical and critical perspectives.

By focusing on key critical concepts within multimodality (transmediality, adaptation, intertextuality) and addressing multiple platforms and media (digital, analogue, music, prose, linguistics, graphics), it expands and develops existing comics theory and also addresses multiple other media and disciplines.

Over the last decade Studies in Comics has been at the forefront of international research in comics. This volume showcases some of the best research to appear in the journal. In so doing it demonstrates the evolution of Comics Studies over the last decade and shows how this research field has engaged with various media and technologies in a continuously evolving artistic and production environment. The theme of multimodality is particularly apt since media and technologies have changed significantly during this period. The collection will thus give a view of the ways in which comics scholars have engaged with multimodality during a time when “modes” were continually changing.

Madeline Gangnes is an assistant professor of English at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, USA. She is a co-editor of Studies in Comics and the advisory editor of Sequentials. Her work appears in Studies in Comics, the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, the Victorian Periodicals Review, and Key Terms in Comics Studies, among other publications. Professor Christopher Murray is professor of Comics Studies and English Literature in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He leads the Masters in Comics and Graphic Novels and is director of the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies and Dundee Comics Creative Space. He is a founding co-editor of Studies in Comics. Julia Round’s books include Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels (2014) and the award-winning Gothic for Girls (2019). She is associate professor of English and Comics Studies at Bournemouth University, UK, and one of the founders and co-editors of Studies in Comics journal and the Encapsulations book series.

List of Figures

Foreword

Roger Sabin

Introduction

Madeline B. Gangnes, Christopher Murray, and Julia Round

SECTION ONE: MULTIPLICITY AND (INTER)TEXTUALITY

The Shape of Comic Book Reading

A. David Lewis

Re-inventing the Origins of the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up: Regis Loisel’s Peter Pan

Armelle Blin-Rolland

The Myth of Eco: Cultural Populism and Comics Studies

Marc Singer

Intertwining Verbal and Visual Elements in Printed Narratives for Adults

Pascal Lefèvre

SECTION TWO: METACOMICS AND THE DIGITAL

Spiegelman’s Magic Box: MetaMaus and the Archive of Representation

Elisabeth R. Friedman

Meaning from Movement: Blurring the Temporal Border between Animation and Comics

Joshua Gowdy

SECTION THREE: LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE

Narrative, Language, and Comics-as-Literature

Hannah Miodrag

The Cognitive Grammar of ‘I’: Viewing Arrangements in Graphic Autobiographies

Christian W. Schneider

SECTION FOUR: SOUND AND VISION

Sound Affects: Visualizing Music, Musicians, and (Sub)Cultural Identity in BECK and Scott Pilgrim

Camilo Diaz Pino

The Musicalization of Graphic Narratives and P. Craig Russell’s Graphic Novel Operas, 'The Magic Flute' and 'Salome'

Victoria Addis

SECTION FIVE: FROM MATERIAL TO TRANSTEXTUAL AND BEYOND

'Animating' the Narrative in Abstract Comics

Paul Fisher Davies

Multimodal Duck-Rabbitry: Multistable Perception and the Narrative Potential of Fold-Ins

Thomas Hamlyn-Harris and Ross Watkins

Resisting Narrative Immersion

Greice Schneider

Square Eyes: Augmenting Bodies, Boredom, and Things

Merlyn Seller

Afterword

Madeline B. Gangnes, Christopher Murray, and Julia Round

Notes on Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.09.2023
Zusatzinfo	53 Halftones, black and white; 6 Halftones, color
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-78938-949-6 / 1789389496
ISBN-13	978-1-78938-949-4 / 9781789389494
Zustand	Neuware