Multimodal Comics (EPUB) von Madeline B. Gangnes

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.

List of Figures

Foreword

   Roger Sabin

Introduction

   Madeline B. Gangnes, Christopher Murray, and Julia Round

SECTION ONE: MULTIPLICITY AND (INTER)TEXTUALITY 

1. The Shape of Comic Book Reading
   
   A. David Lewis
   
   
2. Re-inventing the Origins of the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up: Regis Loisel’s Peter Pan

           Armelle Blin-Rolland

3. The Myth of Eco: Cultural Populism and Comics Studies

           Marc Singer

4. Intertwining Verbal and Visual Elements in Printed Narratives for Adults

           Pascal Lefèvre

SECTION TWO: METACOMICS AND THE DIGITAL 

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

           Elisabeth R. Friedman

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

           Joshua Gowdy

SECTION THREE: LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE 

7. Narrative, Language, and Comics-as-Literature

           Hannah Miodrag

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

           Christian W. Schneider

SECTION FOUR: SOUND AND VISION 

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

           Camilo Diaz Pino

10. 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 

11. 'Animating' the Narrative in Abstract Comics

           Paul Fisher Davies

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

           Thomas Hamlyn-Harris and Ross Watkins

13. Resisting Narrative Immersion

           Greice Schneider

14. Square Eyes: Augmenting Bodies, Boredom, and Things

           Merlyn Seller

Afterword

           Madeline B. Gangnes, Christopher Murray, and Julia Round

Notes on Contributors

Index