Documentary Comics [electronic resource] : Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age /
Mickwitz, Nina.author.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Non-fiction comics and documentary -- The truth-claims of images -- History in the making: comics, history and collective memory -- The persistence of the travelogue -- Visibility and voice -- Short-form documentary webcomics.
Motion pictures—History.
Communication.
Literature.
Arts.
Social sciences.
Cultural studies.
Film History.
Media Studies.
Literature, general.
Arts.
Social Sciences, general.
Cultural Studies.