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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Comics Studies"”.
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Comics : the (not only) visual medium
Comics studies tends to privilege the visual, and some scholars, like Scott McCloud believe that comics are solely visual. However, as Ian Hague has noted, the idea that comics are a solely visual medium is not only incomplete but does not align with what the sciences of perception and embodied …
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Doctor Doom in The Marvel Age: an empirical approach to transmedia character coherence
… and statistical analysis to the field of Comics Studies and uses tools developed from current theories of transmedia storytelling to generate a new empirically driven thirteen-dimensional model of character coherence. The model is tested using a sample of comics featuring the Marvel comics …
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Comics and/as Documentary: the implications of graphic truth-telling
… from a cluster of early twenty-first century comics this thesis argues that these are comics adopting a documentary mode of address. The recognition that they share a documentary ambition to visually narrate and represent aspects and events of the real world, in turn calls for a closer …
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Embodied Responses to Materiality in the Making and Reading of Comics
Comics studies is a relatively new and fundamentally cross disciplinary field. While this has led to rich and inventive analysis combining theory from a range of scholarly practices, it has also resulted in theory being applied to drawn narratives which take little account of material factors …
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Drawn to Peace: Comics as Multimodal Narratives in Peace and Conflict Education
<p>Comics, a type of multimodal narrative, have historically been used as platforms for political discourse. Through a combination of visual, verbal, and spatial devices, comics often explore issues of peace, conflict, and justice “from below,” in ways that reveal the complexities of narrative and …
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The Anthropomorphic Body as Genre: Comics and Fetish
This thesis examines the anthropomorphic body in comics as a site of fetish, desire, and othering in order to understand the use of such bodies to represent or subvert discourses surrounding gender, race, and power. Because the anthropomorphic body itself is a hybrid and a fetish object, and …
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Haunted spaces: Visualising the witch in expanded comics
… can be told using papercut as form of expanded comics, using walking and collaboration as creative process. The two papercut stories in the creative output sit at the intersection of story (the witches), people (the collaborators) and place (the spaces that house these stories), each component …
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How to Cope with Crisis: Examining the Regressive state of Comics through DC Comics' Crisis on Infinite Earths
… watchers attempt to navigate the world of comics amid a staggering influx of content produced by both Marvel and DC Comics. This process of navigation is, of course, not without precedence: a similar phenomenon occurred during the 1980s in which new readers turned to the genre as superhero …
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Evolving a Genre: Doctor Strange Comics as Post-Fantasy
This thesis demonstrates that Doctor Strange comics incorporate established tropes of the fantastic canon while also incorporating postmodern techniques that modernize the genre. Strange's debut series, Strange Tales, begins this development of stylistic changes, but it still relies heavily on …
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Picturing the unspeakable: Trauma, memory, and visuality in contemporary comics
… the intersections of memory and trauma in comics, arguing that the interrelations of the visual and the textual elements of this medium allow for an expanded understanding of how representations of trauma and memory function. This project argues for the centrality of trauma studies in …
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Superhero Healthcare: Graphic Medicine, Genre and Public Education Comics
… history of superhero public information comics. Prior to this research, the two genres had not been placed in dialogue with one another, this study aims to identify the commonalities between them and make this more explicit. This thesis shall discuss this through addressing three key …
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Redrawing the Frontier: A Cultural History of American and Franco-Belgian Western Comics
… a cultural history of the Western genre in the comics medium, from the late 1800s up until the 1970s. Historically, this chronology is not arbitrary, and represents the core years in which the Western genre was forged and prospered in a range of popular media. The genre maintained a powerful …
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Curatorial Constellations: Queer and Feminist Approaches to Latin American Comics
… to contemporary alternative Latin American comics published between 2011 and 2020. Inspired by frameworks developed by Gayatri Gopinath, José Muñoz, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, I coin the category of curatorial constellations to understand how this corpus of comics …
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Frozen Moments. Archival Materialities and Database-Narratives in Chris Ware's 'Building Stories'
Building Stories (2012), le dernier ‘roman graphique’ de l’auteur nord-américain Chris Ware se compose non pas d’un livre, mais d’une multitude d’objets imprimés sous divers formats et réunis au sein d’une boîte en carton surdimensionnée. Le lecteur est invité à trouver son propre parcours à …
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The Liminal Space of Dreams: Narration of Dreams in Graphic novel and Comics
… the dream as a narrative in graphic novels and comics, examining its character as a subconscious experience depicted by means of visual storytelling. Focusing on psychological, symbolic, and aesthetic functions of dream narrative, I demonstrate that dream narration offers an allegory by means of …
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Sculpted from clay, shaped by power: Feminine narrative and agency in Wonder Woman
… culture and Western ideology. Though much of comics discourse functions on the assumption that superhero narratives are homogenous reflections of this ideological hero narrative, I posit that the Amazonian princess's resilience and iconicity stem from her own narrative's uniquely …
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The invention of the graphic novel: underground comix and corporate aesthetics
… the process by which stories told in comics (or graphic narratives) form became longer, more complex, concerned with deeper themes and symbolism, and formally more coherent, ultimately requiring a new publication format, which came to be known as the graphic novel. This format was …
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The Revenant Signifier: The Zombie in Comics and Cinema
… with a focus on its development within the comics medium. The zombie is not just a ‘floating signifier’ (according to Jerrold E. Hogle), but a revenant signifier, actively and aggressively linking with existing concepts, and transforming them. The thesis also considers both the zombie figure …
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Elements of ritual, myth, and subversion in works of Graphic Medicine
… the formal and cultural connections between comics, ritual, monomyth, and quest in the context of an emerging field that has come to be known as Graphic Medicine. It will demonstrate the way in which these different forms deal with experiences of embodiment, space, memory, and time, with an …