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Documentary Comics: Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age
Nina Mickwitz
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Description for Documentary Comics: Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age
Hardback. 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. Series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; FZG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 381.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
187
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
Condition
New
Number of Pages
187
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137501165
SKU
V9781137501165
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99-15
About Nina Mickwitz
Nina Mickwitz is Lecturer in Contextual Studies at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK.
Reviews for Documentary Comics: Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age
"Documentary Comics presents a vital young voice in Comics Studies that brings a welcomed and fresh interdisciplinary approach to the study of graphic narrative." - José Alaniz, author of Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond