EN 3177 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Juvenile Delinquency, Mouse, Consumerism
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Key points: defining closure (mccloud, panel transitions (mccloud, archie as a reflection of teenage culture for young people from, controlled chaos of archie, parody and satire in starchie in mad magazine the perspective of adults, closure. Phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole. Coke: see a pepsi logo but know that it is a pepsi bottle in front of you. The gap between the images is called the gutter because it is here that the action really happens. It requires the reader to actively participate in the action and fill in the gaps. You don"t see the axe falling but we have to imagine it falling hard and fast; we have to imagine the gruesomeness that is happening in the gutter. Maus speiglemen doesn"t show the prisoners being gassed, instead we see the chambers and hear the description; this makes it more disturbing because we have to imagine the scene in our heads.
