ENGB38H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Anthropomorphism, Children'S Book Council Of Australia, Solipsism
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What are the aspects of a cartoon: typically consist of line drawings sometimes with colour, features exaggerated and non realistic characters sometimes talking animals. Comics: sequential art (or juxtapostioned pictorial and other images in a deliberate sequence) So much of what we experience is mediated. Is the thing i"m being shown really the thing. Most of the things we consume have been made by a mass audience. The icon: in order to enjoy art of any variety we have to deal with icons of some kind, always reduction. Ferdinand de saussure: 19th century french linguist who asserted that a word (the sign) consisted of the signifier and the signified, the relationship between the signified and the signifier is arbitrary. Makes car look like it is smiling wants the world to smile back at us by the fce we put on it. Picturing ourselves as whole as a cartoon. Gutter is where movement between scenes happen.
