Documentary Comics
Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age
Published on 9. December 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 187 pages
978-1-349-55895-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
" 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 BeyondMore details
Series
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
IX, 187 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
259 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-55895-7 (9781349558957)
DOI
10.1057/9781137493323
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
12/2015
Palgrave MacMillan
€85.59
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Person
Nina Mickwitz is Lecturer in Contextual Studies at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK.
Content
Introduction
1. Non-fiction comics and documentary
2. The truth-claims of images
3. History in the making: comics, history and collective memory
4. The persistence of the travelogue
5. Visibility and voice
6. Short-form documentary webcomics
Conclusion
1. Non-fiction comics and documentary
2. The truth-claims of images
3. History in the making: comics, history and collective memory
4. The persistence of the travelogue
5. Visibility and voice
6. Short-form documentary webcomics
Conclusion