Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics

by Johannes C.P. Schmid

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030633035
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	02/24/2021
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	79 MB
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About the Author

Johannes C. P. Schmid is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies at Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany. 

Table of Contents

1.       Introduction: Comics Framing and the Construction of Facts.- 2.       Framing Actuality: Frame Theory, Graphic Narrative, and (Post-)Documentary.- 3. Material Framing: The Paratext.- 4. Visual Framing: From the Line to the Multiframe.- 5. Narrative Framing: Storytelling, Structures, and Perspectives.- 6. 1.       Conclusion: Redrawing Boundaries in the Digital Age.