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Author Mickwitz, Nina, author.

Title Documentary comics : graphic truth-telling in a skeptical age / Nina Mickwitz
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Palgrave studies in comics and graphic novels
Palgrave studies in comics and graphic novels.
Contents Non-fiction comics and documentary -- The truth-claims of images -- History in the making: comics, history and collective memory -- The persistence of the travelogue -- Visibility and voice -- Short-form documentary webcomics
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Documentary comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
Literature and society.
Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
Graphic novels -- History and criticism
Webcomics.
Society in literature.
webcomics.
ART -- Techniques -- Drawing.
Society in literature
Comic books, strips, etc.
Documentary comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic novels
Literature and society
Webcomics
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137493323
1137493321