Visual Storytelling in the 21st Century
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This volume will explore varying contemporary strategies and examples of visual storytelling across several contemporary spheres: from street art to video games, from media for children to media for adults, from images in movement to static images.It reads these storytelling venues in terms of the ethical itineraries that we live by, or would like to live by, or wish the world lived by. In this sense it relates to the fact that the term "narrative" has become a ubiquitous shorthand for discursive dominance. Observers of widely varying aspects of social life talk, for example, of changing the narrative, claiming the narrative, overhauling the narrative, or owning the narrative. While these general contexts are well known, there remains a need to continually interrogate new examples of storytelling forms, new cases of the uses of stories in differing formats, and new stories in general. This perpetual need is what this volume aims to respond to by way of its mixture of contemporary storytelling locations and exemplars.
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David Callahan is Associate Professor in Department of Languages & Cultures at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He has previously published one monograph, Rainforest Narratives: The Work of Janette Turner Hospital (2009), and has edited Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature (2002), Australia: Who Cares? (2007), and Body & Text: Cultural Transformations in New Media Environments (Springer, 2019).
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Chapter 1. David Callahan, University of Aveiro, Portugal: "Preface: Visual Storytelling in the Age of the Fragment".- Chapter 2. Víctor Navarro Remesal, Tecnocampus, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona: "Video Games as Animation: Inquiring into the Ontology of Playable Images.".- Chapter 3. David Callahan, University of Aveiro, Portugal: "Making the World More Just Through Video Games? Rerouting Caroline Levine's Forms.".- Chapter 4. Bartosz Stopel, University of Silesia, Poland: ""Wonder, Awe and Negative Emotions in What Remains of Edith Finch.".- Chapter 5. Rebeca López González, University of Vigo, Spain: "Animated monsters and today's popular culture nightmares.".- Chapter 6. Ana Bessa Carvalho, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal: "Look Behind You, Orpheus: Queer Archaeology and Mythical Lesbians in Contemporary Film.".- Chapter 7. Anthony Barker, University of Aveiro, Portugal: "Bourne-again Bond: Retooling the Spy Story in the new Millennium.".- Chapter 8. Alena Zhylinskaya, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland: "'All these things into position': Radiohead's Street Spirit, the Post-colonial Nigerian Novel, and Feminist Dystopia.".- Chapter 9. Nicoletta Mandolini, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal: "What's the Story? How Hybrid Comics against Gender Violence Rework Narrative.".- Chapter 10. Chen Li, Tilburg University, Netherlands: "The graphic self of public intellectuals: Chinese tiaoman as digital practices of self-representation on WeChat.".- Chapter 11. Patrícia Oliveira & Carlos Vargas & Cristina Montalvão Sarmento, University of Lisbon, Portugal & Nova University, Portugal: "Voices of graffiti in urban settings: symbolic contestation and political narratives.".- Chapter 12. Sheila Brannigan, Nova University, Lisbon, Portugal: "Through Etched Glass: Representing Urban Place in Christina Fernandez's Lavanderia series.".- Chapter 13. Roger Davis, Red Deer Polytechnic, Alberta, Canada: "Imagining the Artwork in Geological Time.".