ENG365H1 Lecture Notes - Metafiction, Establishing Shot
Document Summary
Comics, juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence. Defend as art form by connecting it to art traditions. Dispute notion that comics are new or lower/commercial art form. One image follows another, connection between each image. Golem comic book at end of novel borrowing tropes from surrealism. Defending comics, liberating imaginations from rational limitations of real life. Escaping from own head, surrealistic act, escapist. Emphasizing form over content using distinctive characteristics of comics. Photograph to comic face form less iconic to more iconic, abstract, symbolic icon. Ties between iconic figures in comics and wishful figments. Sequence and tension between word and visual, continuity of life. Wrinkle to universe of kavalier and clay, realistic into metafiction, metaphysical. Comic books trained to read transition plaes as connected, on page . Panel to panel implies terry will be villain . Certain level of self awareness, the escapists will need a victim.
