The Language of Comics
Title | The Language of Comics PDF eBook |
Author | Mario Saraceni |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9780415214223 |
The Language of Comics provides a history of comics from the end of the nineteenth century to the present and explores the 'semiotics of comics'.
The Language of Comics
Title | The Language of Comics PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Varnum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Art and literature |
ISBN | 9781578064137 |
A diverse study of how words and pictures interact in comics to make messages
This Book Contains Graphic Language
Title | This Book Contains Graphic Language PDF eBook |
Author | Rocco Versaci |
Publisher | Continuum |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2007-12-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
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The Visual Language of Comics
Title | The Visual Language of Comics PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Cohn |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2013-12-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1441174516 |
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.
Comics and Language
Title | Comics and Language PDF eBook |
Author | Hannah Miodrag |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2013-07-08 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1617038040 |
A new theoretical framework that critiques many of the assumptions of comics studies
Understanding Comics
Title | Understanding Comics PDF eBook |
Author | Scott McCloud |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1994-04-27 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 006097625X |
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 Lexicon of Comicana
Title | The Lexicon of Comicana PDF eBook |
Author | Mort Walker |
Publisher | Backinprint.com |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Cartooning |
ISBN | 9780595089024 |
"Written as a satire on the comic devices cartoonists use, [this] book quickly became a textbook for art students. Walker researched cartoons around the world to collect this international set of cartoon symbols. The names he invented for them now appear in dictionaries."--Page 4 of cover