Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension - Couverture souple

Cohn, Neil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1350156043 ISBN 13 : 9781350156043

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

Synopsis

**Nominated for the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work** Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their understanding for granted. But how transparent are they really, and how universally are they understood? Combining recent advances from linguistics, cognitive science, and clinical psychology, this book argues that visual narratives involve greater complexity and require a lot more decoding than widely thought. Although increasingly used beyond the sphere of entertainment as materials in humanitarian, educational, and experimental contexts, Neil Cohn demonstrates that their universal comprehension cannot be assumed. Instead, understanding a visual language requires a fluency that is contingent on exposure and practice with a graphic system. Bringing together a rich but scattered literature on how people comprehend, and learn to comprehend, a sequence of images, this book coalesces research from a diverse range of fields into a broader interdisciplinary view of visual narrative to ask: Who Understands Comics?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Neil Cohn is Associate Professor of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is the author of The Visual Language of Comics (2013), Who Understands Comics? (2020), and editor of The Visual Narrative Reader (2016).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1350156043
• ISBN 13: 9781350156043
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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