Visual storytelling
Subtitle: an illustrated reader
By: Todd James Pierce, California Polytechnic State University ; Ryan G. Van Cleave, Ringling College of Art and Design
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9780199380046; 9780199380053
Subjects: Visual literacy; Narration (Rhetoric); Storytelling in literature; College readers; Graphic novels; Themes, motives; Comic books, strips
Description: Visual Storytelling features a comprehensive survey of contemporary graphic narratives that encourages reflection, discussion, and various response projects in the writing or literature classroom. With its thematic organization, Visual Storytelling uses graphic narrative to identify intersections not just between visual and verbal language, but also between the overarching themes of identity, history, politics, and the arts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the instructor; title: 1. Identity. "Love Me Forever! Oh! Oh! Oh!" / Jeremy Sorese; title: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood / Marjane Satrapi; title: "How to Understand Israel" / Sarah Glidden; title: Unterzakhn / Leela Corman; title: 2. Men and women. "In the Rough" / Vanessa Davis; title: "The Dead of Winter" / Debbie Drechsler; title: "Cecil and Jordan in New York" / Gabrielle Bell; title: "63 Rue de la Grange aux Belles" / François Avril and Philippe Petit-Roulet; title: "The Hero" / Brent Anderson; title: "La Brea Woman" / Martin Cendreda; title: "Pulverize" / Kevin Huizenga; title: 3. Young Adulthood. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic / Alison Bechdel; title: "Amy Was a Babysitter" / Gabrielle Bell; title: "San Francisco" / Lynda Barry; title: "When I Was Eleven" / Gabrielle Bell; title: "The Bank" / Derf; title: "Blue Note (excerpt from Fantastic Life) / Kevin Mutch / "Dance with the Ventures" / Jonathan Bennett; title: 4. Trauma. The Harlem Hellfighters / Max Brooks and Caanan White; title: "Complacency Kills," from Journalism / Joe Sacco; title: Notes for a War Story / Gipi; title: The Alcoholic / Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel; title: Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics / Miriam Engelberg; title: 5. History. "A Short History of America" / Robert Crumb; title: "Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller" / Joseph Lambert; title: A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York / Liana Finck; title: March / John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell; title: "Trinity" / Michael Cho; title: My Friend Dahmer / Derf; title: 6. Politics. "Ready to Die" / Kim Deitch; title: A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge / Josh Neufeld; title: "Ceci N'est Pas une Comic" / Peter Kuper; title: "In the Shadow of No Towers" / Art Spiegelman; title: "The War on Fornication" / Peter Bagge; title: 7. The Arts. Stop Forgetting to Remember: The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz / Peter Kuper; title: "Fiction Versus Nonfiction" / Chris Ware.