Documentary Comics

Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-349-55895-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 187 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2582 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels

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.

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.