1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910255231403321

Autore

Mickwitz Nina

Titolo

Documentary Comics : Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age / / by Nina Mickwitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-49332-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 187 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels, , 2634-6370

Disciplina

741.5/9

Soggetti

Motion pictures—History

Communication

Literature

Arts

Social sciences

Cultural studies

Film History

Media Studies

Literature, general

Social Sciences, general

Cultural Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.