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Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Teaching Day

Back to school, so probably low to no posting. Next week, a second summer intensive begins as well, that one an undergraduate critical theory survey course, so things are going to be a bit hectic around here for the next eight weeks. In class today, we're comparing the graphic novel Persepolis to its film adaptation. While it is commonplace to analogize the serial narrativization of the comic strip to filmic story-telling, it is interesting how in this case the film reveals the imprint of the comic form -- in this motion picture the motion that predominates often amounts to nearly static images succeeding one another, fading in and out, swelling or panning as though pages were turning, and an eye were roving restlessly across them... Also, interesting to note how much more cartoonish the film is than the comic -- so many more nuances, ambivalences, critical demands in the graphic novel itself.

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