EN 3177 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Apen
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Why superheroes work so well in comics medium. Tiny comic frames allow heroes to move very quickly. Move quickly from one action to the next. Skip the boring parts that happen in the closure. Film action takes place in one screen and replaces another over time. Comics: multiple movements in time being seen at the same time. Maus helps us see how his father"s story is being told through himself (can see past and present at once in comics) Her body is not realistic or natural. Commitment to feminism but also to conventional feminism. Ideal of women not critique of their representation. Commentary on the act of visual metaphors. Discussion of relationship between image and text. Some combinations are harder or easier than others. Dad bathing her so frame shows a bath. Moment to moment there"s little gap between transitions, which means less work for us to find what happened in the gutter.
