Visual Narrative Reader Cohn Neil University of California at San Diego USA
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…
Specifikacia Visual Narrative Reader Cohn Neil University of California at San Diego USA
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