Overview
- Discusses mise en scéne as a concept used in comics studies around the areas of the setting, acting and the frame of comics
- Uses recent developments in theatre and film theory to explore and re-evaluate elements of comics composition
- Asks what the use of comics theory can bring to theories in theatre and film studies
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels (PSCGN)
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About this book
This book explores some of the less frequently questioned ideas which underpin comics creation and criticism. “Mise en scène” is a term which refers to the way in which visual elements work together to create meaning in comics. It is a term that comics have borrowed from cinema, which borrowed it in turn from theatre. But comics are not film and they are not cinema, so how can this term be of any use? If we consider comics to have mise en scène, should not we also ask if the characters in comics act like the characters on film and stage? In its exploration of these ideas, this book also asks what film and theatre can learn from comics.
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
"This is a clear, concise, and very useful book for students, educators, and academics in the field of comic studies. It will be the 'go-to' book from now on and help us all feel more comfortable using 'mise en scène' in our conversations, debates, and analyses of comic books."
—Ian Hornsby, University of Chichester, United Kingdom
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Geraint D’Arcy is a practising scenographer, and the author of Critical Approaches to TV and Film Set Design (2019). A Lecturer in Media practice at the UEA, Norwich, he previously worked at USW, Cardiff, where he helped establish the bi-annual Creative Comics, Creating Comics symposium.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mise en scène, Acting, and Space in Comics
Authors: Geraint D'Arcy
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51113-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51112-8Published: 01 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51115-9Published: 02 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51113-5Published: 31 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6370
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 136
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comics Studies, Technology and Stagecraft, Film Theory