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Documentary Comics : Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age, Hardcover by M...

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Language: English Item Width: 5.5 in Type: Textbook Item Weight: 125.3 Oz height: 0.5 in Item Height: 0.5 in Subject: Media Studies, Television / History & Criticism, General, Film / History & Criticism, Comics & Graphic Novels width: 5.5 in Format: Hardcover Item Length: 8.5 in Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Social Science Series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels Ser. ISBN: 9781137501165 Publication Name: Documentary Comics : Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age Author: Nina Mickwitz Publication Year: 2015 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Number of Pages: IX, 187 Pages Book Title: Documentary Comics : Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age

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Documentary Comics : Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age, Hardcover by M.... Documentary Comics : Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age, Hardcover by Mickwitz, Nina, ISBN 1137501162, ISBN-13 9781137501165, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Can comics be documentary, and can documentary take the form of, and thus be, comics? Examining comics as documentary, this book challenges the persistent assumption that ties documentary to recording technologies, and instead engages an understanding of the category in terms of narrative, performativity and witnessing. Through a cluster of early twenty-first century comics, Nina Mickwitz argues that these comics share a documentary ambition to visually narrate and represent aspects and events of the real world. Documentary Comics : Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age, Hardcover by Mickwitz, Nina, ISBN 1137501162, ISBN-13 9781137501165, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Can comics be documentary, and can documentary take the form of, and thus be, comics? Examining comics as documentary, this book challenges the persistent assumption that ties documentary to recording technologies, and instead engages an understanding of the category in terms of narrative, performativity and witnessing. Through a cluster of early twenty-first century comics, Nina Mickwitz argues that these comics share a documentary ambition to visually narrate and represent aspects and events of the real world.

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