Who Understands Comics?

2020-11-12 Literary Criticism

Author : Neil Cohn
Release : 2020-11-12
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Who Understands Comics? written by Neil Cohn. This book was released on 2020-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their understanding for granted. But how transparent are they really, and how universally are they understood? Combining recent advances from linguistics, cognitive science, and clinical psychology, this book argues that visual narratives involve greater complexity and require a lot more decoding than widely thought. Although increasingly used beyond the sphere of entertainment as materials in humanitarian, educational, and experimental contexts, Neil Cohn demonstrates that their universal comprehension cannot be assumed. Instead, understanding a visual language requires a fluency that is contingent on exposure and practice with a graphic system. Bringing together a rich but scattered literature on how people comprehend, and learn to comprehend, a sequence of images, this book coalesces research from a diverse range of fields into a broader interdisciplinary view of visual narrative to ask: Who Understands Comics?

Who Understands Comics?

2020-11-12 Literary Criticism

Author : Neil Cohn
Release : 2020-11-12
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 051/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Who Understands Comics? by : Neil Cohn

Download or read book Who Understands Comics? written by Neil Cohn. This book was released on 2020-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Nominated for the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work** Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their understanding for granted. But how transparent are they really, and how universally are they understood? Combining recent advances from linguistics, cognitive science, and clinical psychology, this book argues that visual narratives involve greater complexity and require a lot more decoding than widely thought. Although increasingly used beyond the sphere of entertainment as materials in humanitarian, educational, and experimental contexts, Neil Cohn demonstrates that their universal comprehension cannot be assumed. Instead, understanding a visual language requires a fluency that is contingent on exposure and practice with a graphic system. Bringing together a rich but scattered literature on how people comprehend, and learn to comprehend, a sequence of images, this book coalesces research from a diverse range of fields into a broader interdisciplinary view of visual narrative to ask: Who Understands Comics?

The Visual Language of Comics

2013-12-05 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Neil Cohn
Release : 2013-12-05
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book The Visual Language of Comics written by Neil Cohn. This book was released on 2013-12-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics. Despite this fundamental part of human identity, little work has explored the comprehension and cognitive underpinnings of visual narratives-until now. This work presents a provocative theory: that drawings and sequential images are structured the same as language. Building on contemporary theories from linguistics and cognitive psychology, it argues that comics are written in a visual language of sequential images that combines with text. Like spoken and signed languages, visual narratives use a lexicon of systematic patterns stored in memory, strategies for combining these patterns into meaningful units, and a hierarchic grammar governing the combination of sequential images into coherent expressions. Filled with examples and illustrations, this book details each of these levels of structure, explains how cross-cultural differences arise in diverse visual languages of the world, and describes what the newest neuroscience research reveals about the brain's comprehension of visual narratives. From this emerges the foundation for a new line of research within the linguistic and cognitive sciences, raising intriguing questions about the connections between language and the diversity of humans' expressive behaviours in the mind and brain.

Understanding Comics

1994-04-27 Comics & Graphic Novels

Author : Scott McCloud
Release : 1994-04-27
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
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Download or read book Understanding Comics written by Scott McCloud. This book was released on 1994-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.

The Sculptor

2015-02-03 Comics & Graphic Novels

Author : Scott McCloud
Release : 2015-02-03
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
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Book Synopsis The Sculptor by : Scott McCloud

Download or read book The Sculptor written by Scott McCloud. This book was released on 2015-02-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Smith is giving his life for his art—literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. But now that he only has 200 days to live, deciding what to create is harder than he thought, and discovering the love of his life at the 11th hour isn't making it any easier! This is a story of desire taken to the edge of reason and beyond; of the frantic, clumsy dance steps of young love; and a gorgeous, street-level portrait of the world's greatest city. It's about the small, warm, human moments of everyday life...and the great surging forces that lie just under the surface. Scott McCloud wrote the book on how comics work; now he vaults into great fiction with a breathtaking, funny, and unforgettable new work.

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