Overview
- Investigates documentary comics in its unique relationship to framing
- Combines theories of framing analysis and cognitive narratology with comics studies and its attention toward the medium’s visual frames
- Challenges and expands conventional notions of documentary, engaging in a broader discussion on facts and journalism in the current age of fake news and post-truth politics
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels (PSCGN)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics explores how graphic narratives reframe global crises while also interrogating practices of fact-finding. An analog print phenomenon in an era shaped by digitalization, documentary comics formulates a distinct counterapproach to conventional journalism. In what ways are ‘facts’ being presented and framed? What is documentary honesty in a world of fake news and post-truth politics? How can the stories of marginalized peoples and neglected crises be told? The author investigates documentary comics in its unique relationship to framing: graphic narratives are essentially shaped by a reciprocal relationship between the manifest frames on the page and the attention to the cognitive frames that they generate. To account for both the textuality of comics and its strategic use as rhetoric, the author combines theories of framing analysis and cognitive narratology with comics studiesand its attention toward the medium’s visual frames.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Johannes C. P. Schmid is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies at Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics
Authors: Johannes C.P. Schmid
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63303-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s)(if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63302-8Published: 25 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63305-9Published: 25 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-63303-5Published: 24 February 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6370
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 292
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comics Studies, Documentary, Journalism, Popular Culture