Links for January 3rd through January 25th

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Some reading for January 3rd through January 25th:

A behemoth from the Dead Zone - David Bordwell on the film “Cloverfield” interesting for his discussion of first person limited narration in film. Off the top of my head, I’m not coming up with any comics that use the limited first person viewpoint in the unmediated form.
Food for Thought at Chadwick?s Anti-Domino?s « The Wright Opinion - Great review of Volume 7 of Concrete. The paras on thought balloons is particularly worth further consideration.
The Gay Utopia - Haven’t read this yet, but Noah Berlatsky put together this symposium. Lots of comics related content. The manga story by Nishizaka Hiromi has amazing page layouts/compositions.
Ad Reinhardt - Comics by the abstract painter, mostly about art.
Kioskerman - Wish I could read the webcomics on this blog, but I don’t know Spanish. Found this page because it links to me.

Tags: Art, Comics, film, Manga, point-of-view, thought_balloons, to_blog, to_read, word_balloons

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Published:: 01.25.08 / 7pm

Category:: This Weeks Reading

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Tymothi Godek 01.26.08 / 3pm

Off the top of my head, I’m not coming up with any comics that use the limited first person viewpoint in the unmediated form.

Daybreak? Dan Nadel’s Art Out of Time has a 1953 story called Colorama told in first person. It seems there are other examples. Unless I’m missing “the unmediated form” part…

Point of view in comics is something I’ve given a lot of thought to. You can ostensibly boil prose down to first-second-third (”I”-”you”-”they”) but it doesn’t work the same for comics (or film, for that matter). When the reader assumes the perspective of the character, it’s “first person.” But so would be an interior narration and “limited perspective”, right? So what’s second? The text-narration in Colorama refers to “you” and treats the story as though “you” are the protagonist. Is this second person? Is Daybreak “second person” - as the reader assumes the role of the character? Still seems kind of clumsy to me.

I’ve got a story idea that plays with the notions of first-second-third perspectives in comics…

someday…

DerikB 01.26.08 / 3pm

Daybreak! That’s exactly what I meant. Though now, reading your comments I’m getting myself to rethink.

This deserves further thought and words, as I need to pull out my copy of Genette’s “Narrative Discourse”. He has some very useful models for this based on (iirc) who is telling the story and how the story is focused. More later.

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