{"product_id":"the-comics-form-the-art-of-sequenced-images-9781350245952","title":"The Comics Form: The Art of Sequenced Images","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnswering foundational questions like \"what is a comic\" and \"how do comics work\" in original and imaginative ways, this book adapts established, formalist approaches to explaining the experience of reading comics. Taking stock of a multitude of case studies and examples, \u003ci\u003eThe Comics Form \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates that any object can be read as a comic so long as it displays a set of relevant formal features. Drawing from the worlds of art criticism and literary studies to put forward innovative new ways of thinking and talking about comics, this book challenges certain terminology and such theorizing terms as 'narrate' which have historically been employed somewhat loosely. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn unpacking the way in which sequenced images work, \u003ci\u003eThe Comics Form\u003c\/i\u003e introduces tools of analysis such as discourse and diegesis; details further qualities of visual representation such as resemblance, custom norms, style, simplification, exaggeration, style modes, transparency and specification, perspective and framing, focalization and ocularization; and applies formal art analysis to comics images. This book also examines the conclusions readers draw from the way certain images are presented and what they trigger, and offers clear definitions of the roles and features of text-narrators, image-narrators, and image-text narrators in both non-linguistic images and word-images.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Gavaler\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, USA. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eOn the Origina of Superheroes: From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1 \u003c\/i\u003e(2015) and \u003ci\u003eSuperhero Comics\u003c\/i\u003e (2017) and \u003ci\u003eCreating Comics\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), both publishing by Bloomsbury. Since 2021, he has been series editor of Bloomsbury Comics Studies.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50867216875794,"sku":"9781350245952","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e4244eee-05f0-4b50-8d3d-235253cef948.jpg?v=1737696335","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-comics-form-the-art-of-sequenced-images-9781350245952","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}