Here is a Google doc that we’ll use today during our discussion of Hillary Chute’s essay “Women, Comics, and the Risk of Representation.”
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Comics puts productive pressure on what “normal reading” is
“Comics puts productive pressure on what ‘normal reading’ is — not because it is so easy, or immediate, but rather because paths of reading and different moments of time can compete as alternatives.” – Hillary Chute
Some key terms from Hillary Chute’s “Comics for Grown-Ups”:
- “Narrative drawing” or “picture writing” (instead of illustrative)
- Decode (vs. read)
- Gutter
- “Secret language of comics”
- Spatially site-specific
- Weirdness of time
- All-at-onceness (or symphonic effect)
- Directions of reading
- Slowness
- Hybridity
- Graphic medicine
The page from Hergé’s Crab with the Golden Claws that Chute discusses on pp 24-25:
