Documentary Comics

TRAMA

Can comics be documentary, and can documentary take the form of, and thus be, comics? Examining comics as documentary, this book challenges the persistent assumption that ties documentary to recording technologies, and instead engages an understanding of the category in terms of narrative, performativity and witnessing. Through a cluster of early twenty-first century comics, Nina Mickwitz argues that these comics share a documentary ambition to visually narrate and represent aspects and events of the real world.

SOMMARIO

Introduction1. Non-fiction comics and documentary2. The truth-claims of images3. History in the making: comics, history and collective memory4. The persistence of the travelogue5. Visibility and voice6. Short-form documentary webcomicsConclusion

AUTORE

Nina Mickwitz is Lecturer in Contextual Studies at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781137501165
• Collana: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: IX, 187 p.
• Pagine Arabe: 187
• Pagine Romane: ix