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Documentary Graphic Novels and Social Realism

Jeff Adams (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

214 Seiten

2008
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-03911-362-0 (ISBN)

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This book analyses graphic novels which document social crises. It demonstrates that artists' documentary use of this medium is a form of social realism, inextricably bound up with politics and ideology. Theoretical and visual approaches are employed throughout, introducing the principal themes of the graphic novels under scrutiny: political realism, visual documentary, traumatic childhood, ethnic discrimination, state oppression, and military occupation. The key works examined are Keiji Nakazawa's Barefoot Gen, Joe Sacco's Palestine, Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, W.G. Sebald's Emigrants and Art Spiegelman's Maus.
Innovative techniques, radical methods of depiction, sequence and text organisation are analysed throughout to explain how the authors use visual realism to represent these social crises. The book is well illustrated as a visual support for its exploration of this emerging and vital documentary medium.

The Author: Jeff Adams is a lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. As well as researching graphic novels, he has also published work on contemporary art in education and the professional development of artist teachers.

Contents: Social Realism, Historical and Political Contexts: State censorship and prevailing ideologies - Documentary: The relationship of images to memory - The graphic novel medium's effectiveness as a vehicle for the reconstruction of accounts of war and social trauma - Childhoods Depicted in War and Crises: Childhood under conditions of social upheaval - Oppressive social circumstances - Religious fundamentalism - Gendered state oppression - Documenting Oppression: An account of life under military occupation - Visualising Discrimination and Persecution: Political and military oppression - The forced labour camps of the Holocaust - The photographic documenting of exile and discrimination.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.10.2008
Reihe/Serie	Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts ; 7
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
Schlagworte	Adams • barrie • Bullen • Comic • Documentary • Ethnic Discrimination • Geschichte 1973-2003 • Graphic • Hardcover, Softcover / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft • HC/Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft • Ideology • Jeff • Novels • Politic • Realism • Realismus • Social • Sozialer Konflikt • State Oppression
ISBN-10	3-03911-362-3 / 3039113623
ISBN-13	978-3-03911-362-0 / 9783039113620
Zustand	Neuware