Graphic journalism: il fumetto come racconto del mondo

2012 ◽  
pp. 118-126
Author(s):  
Vito Santoro
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Novels ◽  
The World ◽  
Crime Stories ◽  
True Crime ◽  
Visual Power

The graphic journalism is a form of journalism that takes advantage of the potential of narrative and visual power of comics. More than a theory, a trend or a school, it is a practice adopted by the authors. The graphic reporter is always ready to gather as much evidence as possible on the object of his search. This is what happens in the work of Joe Sacco, Aleksandar Zograf and Igort: their graphic novels describe unknown places, situations and areas. In Italy the publisher BeccoGiallo has created a particular kind of comics, called civil comic. BeccoGiallo's graphic novels talk about true crime stories, biographies and reportage about the world of migrants.

scholarly journals Narratology beyond the Human

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Herman
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Animal Life ◽  
Animal Populations ◽  
The World ◽  
Narrative Time ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Long Timescales

This book aims to develop a cross-disciplinary approach to post-Darwinian narratives concerned with animals and human-animal relationships. In outlining this integrative approach to storytelling in a more-than-human setting, the study also considers the enabling and constraining effects of different narrative media, examining a range of fictional and nonfictional texts disseminated in print, comics and graphic novels, and film. Focusing on techniques employed in these media, including the use of animal narrators, alternation between human and nonhuman perspectives on events, shifts backward and forward in narrative time, the embedding of stories within stories, and others, the book explores how specific strategies for portraying nonhuman agents both emerge from and contribute to broader attitudes toward animal life. Conversely, emphasizing that stories are, in general, interwoven with cultures’ ontologies, their assumptions about what sorts of beings populate the world and how those beings’ qualities and abilities relate to the qualities and abilities ascribed to humans, promises to reshape existing frameworks for narrative inquiry. Ideas that have been foundational for the field are at stake here, including ideas about what makes narratives more or less amenable to being interpreted as narratives, about the extent to which differences of genre affect attributions of mental states to characters (human as well as nonhuman) in narrative contexts, and about the suitability of stories as a means for engaging with supraindividual phenomena unfolding over long timescales and in widely separated places, including patterns and events situated at the level of animal populations and species rather than particular creatures.

Comic Art in Museums

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Material ◽  
Comic Art

Over the last twenty years, the growing diversity in content and artistic innovation in graphic novels, comic books, and web comics combined with the popularity of films based on comics material have made comic art newly attractive to curators, museums, and university galleries. More artists identified with comics are getting big budget retrospectives, collecting institutions are mounting rich historical shows, and exhibits capitalizing on the popularity of all types of comics are popping up around the world. This book is an introduction to the history and controversies that have shaped comics exhibitions, who the pioneers were, different ideas about comic art exhibits around the world, how the best practices for displaying comics have developed and why, and how artists and curators have found ways to display comics that break away from the “framed pages on the wall” format. Using long out-of-print reviews and new material from experts such as Art Spiegelman, Denis Kitchen, and Andrei Molotiu, Comic Art in Museums maps out the history of influential shows of original comic art from newly rediscovered shows of the 1930’s to contemporary blockbusters like High and Low: Modern Art, Popular Culture and Masters of American Comics, as well as the critical dialogue surrounding these shows. To borrow a phrase from Theirry Groensteen, it’s the story of one way that comics have finally achieved “cultural legitimization.”

INTRODUCTION

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 313-313
Author(s):  
Herbert Sussman
Keyword(s):  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Time Lags ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Regular Feature ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Victorian Literature And Culture

WITH THESE ESSAYS, Victorian Literature and Culture begins a regular feature, “Victorians Live,” whose subject is how the Victorians still “live,” how they remain “live,” lively, alive. The focus is the intersection of the world of Victorian scholarship that the readers of VLC inhabit, with the larger world of representation. For, quite remarkably, in our globalized time, the Victorians remain “in”–from museum blockbusters to specialized exhibitions, from home decoration to popular fiction and graphic novels, from Masterpiece Theatre to Hollywood retellings of canonical novels. Rather than assuming an abyss between serious academic pursuits and the unserious non-academic world, Victorians Live seeks to chart the complex and ongoing dynamic wherein academic reinterpretations of the past, albeit in unexpected ways and with considerable time lags, shape the popular vision of the nineteenth century, and conversely, how contemporary social concerns as well as market demands on publishers and museums shape scholarship.

scholarly journals Teaching Multimodal Literacy Through Reading and Writing Graphic Novels

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike P. Cook ◽  
Jeffrey S.J. Kirchoff
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Multimodal Composition ◽  
Multimodal Literacy ◽  
Writing Teachers ◽  
Secondary Classrooms ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
The World

Scholarship suggests that writing teachers and instructors looking to integrate multimodal composition into their secondary or post-secondary classrooms should consider graphic novels as a mentor text for multimodal literacy. To help those pedagogues unfamiliar with graphic novels, we offer three titles—The Photographer, Operation Ajax, and Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow—students have responded positively to. Herein we offer a summary for each text, a discussion of their uses to teach multimodal literacy, a range of multimodal assignments to pair with each text, and a variety of assessment methods. 

scholarly journals Voracious villains or hungry heroes? Depictions of food critics in popular media

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Andrew Koch
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Novels ◽  
White Men ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
People’S Perceptions ◽  
Positive Light

There are copious types of visual media that viewers presently consume as entertainment. These various mediums showcase depictions that influence people's perceptions of both individuals and entire careers. In journalism studies, scholars look at these visual depictions in film, television, graphic novels, and others to categorize how journalism works and how journalists interact with the world. Depictions too often focus on hard news and mainline journalism at the expense of subfields such as food criticism. This study responds to a call to action to look into media beyond film, while carving out its own path and establishing that food critics are understudied. From non-journalistic beginnings, food criticism entered the fold of lifestyle journalism. In popular fictional visual media across time, close textual analysis of the depiction of food critics shows unique and shared themes, tropes, and story arcs specific to food critics, including: violence and anonymity. Depictions of food critics were homogenous regardless of the medium and were shown primarily as older white men with similar dress, attitude, and ethics. These depictions were overwhelmingly negative with few showing food critics doing their job well in a positive light. This thesis combats the neglect of depictions of food critics in journalistic study, as well as showcases the characterizations of food critics that separates them from other journalists and critics.

scholarly journals Bird & Squirrel On The Run! by J. Burks

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annabelle Pendry
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Minimal Change ◽  
Animation Industry ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Mount Pleasant ◽  
The World ◽  
Winter Food ◽  
The Moment

Burks, James. Bird & Squirrel On The Run! New York: Scholastic Graphix, 2012. Print. After years as an artist in the hallways of the animation industry, author/illustrator James Burks takes an unlikely duo on an adventure of discovered friendship. Timid Squirrel, complete with winter food preparations and a fear of almost everything (“Don’t you know that cats are responsible for 47 percent of all squirrel deaths each year?”), suddenly loses his winter safety net in dramatic fashion, catching the hungry eye of a determined and ferocious cat.  Squirrel has no choice but to grudgingly pair himself with the animal responsible for his loss, an adventurous Bird who brazenly lives in the moment (“The world is our oyster!”) but who attracts trouble with every swoop of his wing.  Together they venture south to find warmth and food, dodging their persistently predatory cat and other natural hazards but find help along the way from a kind family of moles.  A few shared life and death adventures later, Bird and Squirrel begin to appreciate and learn from each other’s ways, discovering new aspects of their own personalities while becoming true friends in the process.   ​ Burks uses clean lines and brightly coloured characters against more neutral backgrounds to frame clear and simple facial expressions that will appeal to younger readers. The fast paced story is presented with minimal change in perspective and timeline which makes this an ideal introduction to graphic novels for younger readers. ​​ Recommended: 3 out of 4 stars Reviewer: Annabelle Pendry Annabelle Pendry loves her job as Teacher Librarian at Mount Pleasant Elementary in Vancouver, BC.

scholarly journals News, Awards, and Announcements

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail De Vos
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Prince Edward Island ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Young Adult Fiction ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
Book Award ◽  
The University

Have you been following Amy’s Marathon of books? Inspired by by Terry Fox’s and Rick Hansen’s Canadian journeys, Amy Mathers is honouring her passion for reading and Canadian teen literature while working around her physical limitations through a Marathon of Books. Amy will be reading teen fiction books from every province and territory, exploring Canada and promoting Canadian teen authors and books by finishing a book a day for each day of 2014, writing a review for each book she reads. The goal is to raise money for the Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) in order to endow a Canadian teen book award to be presented at the yearly Canadian Children’s Literature Awards gala. Amy will collect fundraising pledges (which are eligible for a charitable tax receipt). http://amysmarathonofbooks.ca/The National Reading Campaign (NRC) is thrilled to announce the inaugural week-long event READING TOWN CANADA. For one week, May 3-10th, 2014, the National Reading Campaign will turn Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan into an exemplary model of what a reading Canada would look like. Reading will be woven into every feature of life through a series of exciting events: Imagine having a poem delivered with your pizza, wandering into a fully-stocked ‘reading glen’ in Crescent Park, discovering a book by a local author in your Welcome Wagon package, or finding a tiny lending library at the end of your street. http://www.nationalreadingcampaign.ca/about-reading-town-canada/IBBY Canada (the Canadian national section of the International Board on Books for Young People) named Bonnie Tulloch as the Frances E. Russell Grant recipient. Bonnie is a graduate student in the children’s literature program of the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is doing an analysis of contemporary Canadian children’s and young adult novels that focus on island adventures; the resulting work will be titled “No ‘Man’ is an Island: Examining Island Imagery and its Relation to Female Identity in a Selection of Canadian Children’s and Young Adult Fiction.” http://www.ibby-canada.org/?p=2080CANSCAIP is presenting two upcoming workshops: Imagine a Story, a day of workshops for those interested in writing, illustrating and performing for children, will be held May 31 at Dawson College in Montreal; Packaging Your Imagination, Canada's oldest and largest conference on the craft and business of writing, illustrating and performing for children, will be held October 18 at Humber College Lakeshore Campus in Toronto. Registration for the latter conference will commence in late May. http://www.canscaip.org/Award Season is soon to be blossoming along with spring and summer. Recent announcements for shortlists include the 2014 Atlantic Book Awards and The Canadian Science Writers’ Association (CSWA).The shortlists for the Atlantic Book Awards are:Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s LiteratureNix Minus One, by Jill MacLean (Pajama Press)The Power of Harmony, by Jan L. Coates (Red Deer Press)The Stowaways, by Meghan Marentette, Illustrated by Dean Griffiths (Pajama Press)Lillian Shepherd Award for Excellence in IllustrationLasso the Wind: Aurélia’s Verses and Other Poems Illustrated by Susan Tooke and written by George Elliott Clarke (Nimbus Publishing)Pisim Finds her Miskanow Illustrated by Leonard Paul and written by William Dumas (Portage & Main Press)Singily Skipping Along, Illustrated by Deanne Fitzpatrick and written by Sheree Fitch (Nimbus Publishing)In addition two other children’s titles were also shortlisted:Ghost Boy of MacKenzie House by Patti Larsen (Acorn Press) for the Prince Edward Island Book Award (fiction category)Formac Publishing was nominated for the APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award (sponsored by Friesens Corporation), for Bluenose Adventure by Jacqueline Halsey with illustrations by Eric Orchard.http://atlanticbookawards.ca/ The shortlist for the Canadian Science Writers’ Association for outstanding youth book:Au labo, les Debrouillards! written by Yannick Bergeron (Bayard jeunesse)Before the World Was Ready written by Claire Eamer and illustrated by Sa Boothroyd (Annick Press)Buzz About Bees written by Kari-Lynn Winters (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)Dirty Science: 25 Experiments with Soil written by Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone, illustrated by Lorzeno Del Bianco (Scholastic Canada)A History of Just About Everything: 180 Events, People and Inventions That Changed the World written by Elizabeth MacLeod and Frieda Wishinsky, illustrated by Qin Leng (Kids Can Press)Pandemic Survival: It's Why You're Alive written by Ann Love and Jane Drake, illustrated by Bill Slavin (Tundra Books).http://sciencewriters.ca/2014/04/01/cswa-book-awards-shortlist-2/Gail de VosGail de Vos, an adjunct instructor, teaches courses on Canadian children's literature, Young Adult Literature and Comic Books and Graphic Novels at the School of Library and Information Studies for the University of Alberta and is the author of nine books on storytelling and folklore. She is a professional storyteller and has taught the storytelling course at SLIS for over two decades.

scholarly journals SPECIAL FEATURES OF GRAPHIC NOVELS TRANSLATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 68-78
Author(s):  
Mariya A. Khrustaleva ◽  
◽  
Aleksandra S. Klimova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Main Approach ◽  
Translation Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Frame Method

The article deals with one of the issues in the study of creolized text – the special features of graphic novels translation. These are explored based on the translation from Spanish into Russian made by the authors of the paper for the literary work Wrinkles (Spanish: Arrugas) written by Paco Roca. The authors consider cognitive discourse analysis to be the main approach to the translation of the abovementioned graphic novel. It gives an opportunity not only to justify the researchers’ translation decisions but also to convey the author’s idea and his personal perception of the world in a more complete and accurate way. The frame method, which is regarded as an adequate mode of the concept structural organization, makes it possible to build the sphere of concepts of the source text. The concepts of MEMORIA (memory) and VEJEZ (old age) are considered the key concepts of the graphic novel because, as it was found at the stage of pre-translation analysis, they create its artistic space. The frame analysis of the fundamental concepts of the source text and the identification of semantic correlations between the language representants make it possible to translate the researched literary work. Based on the research results, the authors draw a conclusion about the special features of graphic novels translation and the effectiveness of applying the cognitive discourse analysis to the translation of such works. The study concludes with an outline of the prospects for further research on graphic novels, a new literary genre that represents an unusual combination of fine art, literature and cinematography.

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