Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension
Autor Dr Neil Cohnen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 noi 2020
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350156043
ISBN-10: 1350156043
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 40 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350156043
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 40 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
This book is the first to bring together a rich but scattered literature on how people comprehend, and learn to comprehend, a sequence of images
Notă biografică
Neil Cohn is Associate Professor of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is the author of The Visual Language of Comics (2013) and editor of The Visual Narrative Reader (2016).
Cuprins
1. An Assumption of Universality2. Comprehending Visual Narratives3. Cross-cultural Diversity of Visual Languages4. Cross-cultural Comprehension of Visual Languages5. Development of Visual Narrative Comprehension6. Variation Between Fluent Comprehenders7. Visual Narrative Comprehension in Clinical Populations8. Graphic Narratives and Filmed Narratives9. Visual Language FluencyReferencesIndex
Recenzii
Cohn's approach to the book permits a complete, enriching and captivating overview of the issues discussed.
Who Understands Comics? provides a comprehensive and remarkably accessible account of contemporary theoretical perspectives and behavioral and neuroscience research on visual narratives. ... the promise of this volume is that it will inspire more research, certainly in the next generation of scholars. Cohn has mastered the ability to convey complex information in a straightforward and compelling manner, ... It is a must read for anyone conducting research on visual narratives, interested in doing so, or simply waning to learn about a fascinating topic of research within cognitive science.
Cohn's book takes many significant steps towards untangling a host of potentially conflicting ideas about how communication in the medium of comics works, for whom it works, where and when. These results, and the sheer breadth of literature that Cohn draws on to demonstrate his points, should consequently make the book required reading not only in the more specific 'application' areas that Cohn opens up for discussion but also for the field of visual communication as a whole.
From an empirical point of view and a comics studies perspective open to corpus-based and experimental analyses, the documented work can hardly be surpassed in systematicity and innovation, while at the same time standing on firm theoretical and methodological grounds in long-established disciplines.
Building on a wealth of data, Cohn bolsters his claim that understanding sequential images is analogous to learning a language. Impressively complementing theoretical expertise and literature reviews with his own experimental research, Who Understands Comics? provides astute insights into visual interpretation cross-culturally, developmentally, and neurologically - thereby moreover benefiting cognition studies.
McCloud helped us understand the comics form, but Cohn delves even deeper, synthesizing diverse theories and empirical research data to explore the factors (culture, neurodiversity, etc.) that determine how readers engage with, comprehend, and react to comics.
Assumptions of the universality of images and image sequences pervade both everyday beliefs and many bodies of scientific literature. Spanning neural studies, variations in interpretation proficiency, cognitive disorders, and cross-cultural variation, this timely book challenges this position and convincingly establishes that a far more nuanced view of visual meaning-making is necessary. The sustained empirical critique Cohn provides significantly raises the bar for research in visual communication at large.
Cohn challenges the assumed transparency and ease of processing of visual languages by combining wide-ranging review of evidence on neurodiverse populations, cultural, developmental and experiential differences with his own unique quantitative corpus analysis and neurocognitive investigations. By showing how individual variation exists at many stages of visual narrative cognition, Cohn lays out a roadmap for future work to expand our understanding of this culturally important mode of communication. This book is sure to become a landmark reference for researchers interested in individual differences in visual language comprehension spanning comics, film and sequential images in all their many forms.
Who Understands Comics? provides a comprehensive and remarkably accessible account of contemporary theoretical perspectives and behavioral and neuroscience research on visual narratives. ... the promise of this volume is that it will inspire more research, certainly in the next generation of scholars. Cohn has mastered the ability to convey complex information in a straightforward and compelling manner, ... It is a must read for anyone conducting research on visual narratives, interested in doing so, or simply waning to learn about a fascinating topic of research within cognitive science.
Cohn's book takes many significant steps towards untangling a host of potentially conflicting ideas about how communication in the medium of comics works, for whom it works, where and when. These results, and the sheer breadth of literature that Cohn draws on to demonstrate his points, should consequently make the book required reading not only in the more specific 'application' areas that Cohn opens up for discussion but also for the field of visual communication as a whole.
From an empirical point of view and a comics studies perspective open to corpus-based and experimental analyses, the documented work can hardly be surpassed in systematicity and innovation, while at the same time standing on firm theoretical and methodological grounds in long-established disciplines.
Building on a wealth of data, Cohn bolsters his claim that understanding sequential images is analogous to learning a language. Impressively complementing theoretical expertise and literature reviews with his own experimental research, Who Understands Comics? provides astute insights into visual interpretation cross-culturally, developmentally, and neurologically - thereby moreover benefiting cognition studies.
McCloud helped us understand the comics form, but Cohn delves even deeper, synthesizing diverse theories and empirical research data to explore the factors (culture, neurodiversity, etc.) that determine how readers engage with, comprehend, and react to comics.
Assumptions of the universality of images and image sequences pervade both everyday beliefs and many bodies of scientific literature. Spanning neural studies, variations in interpretation proficiency, cognitive disorders, and cross-cultural variation, this timely book challenges this position and convincingly establishes that a far more nuanced view of visual meaning-making is necessary. The sustained empirical critique Cohn provides significantly raises the bar for research in visual communication at large.
Cohn challenges the assumed transparency and ease of processing of visual languages by combining wide-ranging review of evidence on neurodiverse populations, cultural, developmental and experiential differences with his own unique quantitative corpus analysis and neurocognitive investigations. By showing how individual variation exists at many stages of visual narrative cognition, Cohn lays out a roadmap for future work to expand our understanding of this culturally important mode of communication. This book is sure to become a landmark reference for researchers interested in individual differences in visual language comprehension spanning comics, film and sequential images in all their many forms.