Nina Mickwitz

Documentary Comics

Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-55895-7
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 263g
• ISBN-13: 9781349558957
• ISBN-10: 1349558958
• Artikelnr.: 45070014

Autorenporträt

Nina Mickwitz is Lecturer in Contextual Studies at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"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