Documentary Comics

Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age
2016. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-50116-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 187 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 3551 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels

Can comics be documentary, and can documentary take the form of, and thus be, comics? Through a cluster of early twenty-first century comics, Mickwitz argues that these comics share a documentary ambition to visually narrate and represent aspects and events of the real world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mickwitz, Nina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Non-fiction comics and documentary
2. The truth-claims of images
3. History in the making: comics, history and collective memory
4. The persistence of the travelogue
5. Visibility and voice
6. Short-form documentary webcomics
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

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