The Visual Narrative Reader - Neil Cohn

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Résumé :
Sequential images are as natural at conveying narratives as verbal language, and have appeared throughout human history, from cave paintings and tapestries right through to modern comics. Contemporary research on this visual language of sequential images has been scattered across several fields: linguistics, psychology, anthropology, art education, comics studies, and others. Only recently has this disparate research begun to be incorporated into a coherent understanding. In The Visual Narrative Reader, Neil Cohn collects chapters that cross these disciplinary divides from many of the foremost international researchers who explore fundamental questions about visual narratives. How does the style of images impact their understanding? How are metaphors and complex meanings conveyed by images? How is meaning understood across sequential images? How do children produce and comprehend sequential images? Are visual narratives beneficial for education and literacy? Do visual narrative systems differ across cultures and historical time periods? This book provides a foundation of research for readers to engage in these fundamental questions and explore the most vital thinking about visual narrative. It collects important papers and introduces review chapters summarizing the literature on specific approaches to understanding visual narratives. The result is a comprehensive reader that can be used as a coursebook, a researcher resource and a broad overview of fascinating topics suitable for anyone interested in the growing field of the visual language of comics and visual narratives.

Biographie:
Neil Cohn is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research in Language, University of California at San Diego, USA.

Sommaire:
Preface, Neil Cohn 1. Interdisciplinary approaches to visual narrative, Neil Cohn Part 1: Theoretical approaches to sequential images 2. Linguistically-oriented comics research in Germany, John Bateman and Janina Wildfeuer 3. No content without form: Graphic style as the primary entrance to a story, Pascal Lef?vre 4. Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Blending Theory, and other Cognitivist Perspectives on Comics, Charles Forceville 5. Relatedness: Aspects of textual connectivity in comics, Mario Saraceni 6. A Little Cohesion between Friends; Or, We're Just Exploring Our Textuality: Reconciling Cohesion in Written Language and Visual Language, Eric Stainbrook Part 2: Psychology and development of visual narrative 7. Manga Literacy and Manga Comprehension in Japanese Children, Jun Nakazawa 8. What happened and what happened next: Kids' visual narratives across cultures, Brent Wilson Part 3: Visual narratives across cultures 9. The Walbiri Sand Story, Nancy Munn 10. Alternative representations of space: Arrernte Narratives in Sand, David Wilkins 11. Sequential text-image pairings in the Classical Maya, Jesper Nielsen and S?ren Wichmann 12. Linguistic relativity and conceptual permeability in visual narratives: New distinctions in the relationship between language(s) and thought, Neil Cohn Further Reading Index