Zooming In and Out: Panels, Frames, Sequences, and the Building of Graphic Storyworlds

Horstkotte, Silke

doi:10.1515/9783110282023.27

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“…In order to study accountants’ thematic roles, their actions or the actions from which they suffer, at the discursive level, were identified. To do so, comics reading theories on the codes used in comics (Eisner, 1985, 1996; Horstkotte, 2013; Kukkonen, 2013a, 2013b; McCloud, 1993) were mobilized. Following Figure 4 (Braun and Clarke, 2006), thematic roles were created progressively, each time a new thematic role was recognized.…”

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‘This looks like a job for an accountant! (with good funeral insurance)’: The changing roles of accountants in superhero comics from 1938 to 2018

Rocher¹,

Christensen²,

Roy

2020

Accounting History

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The roles of accountant characters in a coherent genre of entertainment media, and over time, remain surprisingly under-researched. In this study, it is argued that the roles of accountants in society can be interpreted from longitudinal analyses of the roles played by accountant characters in entertainment media narratives depicting fictional worlds. Analysis is provided of narratives in which actantial and thematic roles are played by accountants in 178 US superhero comics’ narrative sequences between 1938 and 2018. The sequences were those in which at least one character is presented as an accountant. The study reveals that accountants have increasingly been portrayed in more positive than negative roles since the beginning of the twenty-first century and have become symbolic superheroes. At the same time, this study also shows that individual accountants do not last long in these narratives, even though they have a positive role. This article shows how one genre of entertainment media has conveyed an improved image of accountants in fictional worlds, to give them progressively a place of importance comparable perhaps to the one that their professional bodies argue they occupy in modern society. Even if some negativity is still attached to the accountant, their image is progressively changing for a better one based on the roles they played because they are accountants.

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Section: Methodology Of Researchmentioning

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‘This looks like a job for an accountant! (with good funeral insurance)’: The changing roles of accountants in superhero comics from 1938 to 2018

Rocher¹,

Christensen²,

Roy

2020

Accounting History

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“…As McCloud (1993) explains, 'space does for comics what time does for film' (p.7). Time is expressed as a repetition of images, an elongated panel, speech bubbles and speed lines (Horstkotte, 2013). Time is also more under the control of the reader, as the transition of the still image into narrative time depends on the rhythm in which our eyes move from panel to panel (Smith, 2013: 28).…”

Section: Gender Sexuality and Ageing In Comics And Graphic Novelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Redrawing women’s later-in-life desires: Representations of ageing femininities, intimacies and the promise of happiness in graphic novels

Vuyst

2022

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article explores representations of ageing femininities and later-in-life intimacies based on a critical, contextualised reading of two graphic novels. Narratives of later life are deeply entangled with notions of happiness. While ageing has usually been associated with decay, loss and an irreversible path to unhappiness, in recent years, there has been a shift towards a more rosy picture of an active, social, happy and fulfilling later-in-life. These happiness scripts contain a set of gendered instructions on how to achieve the good life in old age. For ageing women, they include expectations about beauty and the body, sexual desires and the temporal organisation of the life course. This article draws on Sara Ahmed’s critique on the disciplinary dynamics of the promise of happiness and the work that emotions do to value certain bodies, expressions of sexuality and life choices as good for older women and others as bad. The study found that the two graphic novels analysed ‘Bloesems in de herfst’ (Blossoms in Autumn, 2018) by Zidrou and Aimée De Jongh and ‘Bingo Love’ (2018) by Tee Franklin and Jen St-Onge, both confirm and challenge normative ideas about gender, ageing and sexuality. However, while both graphic novels redraw some lines of the prevailing scripts of happiness for ageing women, they do not erase them entirely from the frame. In the end, I will take the discussion one step further by reflecting on how representations of older women can destabilise norms about gender, sexuality and ageing and subvert disciplinary narratives about later life happiness.

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“…Alternatively, preschoolers’ attention could easily be tuned into the creative use of print within the illustrations by asking, “What is special about how Matthew wrote the word howl on this page?” Similarly, mentor texts could be used to introduce speech bubbles, captions, and text panels in developmentally appropriate ways with preschoolers (McAndrews, 2020). Comic book mentor texts can be used to teach about how panels, speech bubbles, and narrative text boxes contribute to the unique ways graphic novels can quickly draw us into stories simply through their size, shape, and position inside or outside of illustration panels (Horstkotte, 2013). Preschoolers can discuss and imitate the different use of a speech bubble in their drawing versus a text panel added to the bottom of their illustration by a teacher dictating the meaning of the image.…”

Section: Supporting Children’s Writing Identities Through Positive Exmentioning

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Scaffolding Compositions by Valuing Illustrations in Preschool

Trujillo¹,

Emerson²

2021

The Reading Teacher

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Zooming In and Out: Panels, Frames, Sequences, and the Building of Graphic Storyworlds

Cited by 15 publications

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‘This looks like a job for an accountant! (with good funeral insurance)’: The changing roles of accountants in superhero comics from 1938 to 2018

‘This looks like a job for an accountant! (with good funeral insurance)’: The changing roles of accountants in superhero comics from 1938 to 2018

Redrawing women’s later-in-life desires: Representations of ageing femininities, intimacies and the promise of happiness in graphic novels

Scaffolding Compositions by Valuing Illustrations in Preschool

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