1st Edition
Comics and the Senses A Multisensory Approach to Comics and Graphic Novels
Introduction 1. Eye Like Comics, or, Ocularcentrism in Comics Scholarship 2. Sight, or, the Ideal Perspective and the Physicality of Seeing 3. Hearing, or, Visible Sounds and Seeing With the Ears 4. Touch, or, the Taboo/Fetish Character of Comics and Tactile Performance 5. Smell and Taste, or, the Scent of Nostalgia and the Flavour of Advertising 6. Multisensory Aspects of the Comics of Alan Moore Conclusion
Biography
Ian Hague is Associate Lecturer in the History Department at the University of Chichester, UK.
"Hague presents here a riveting project, that opens up a wonderful path and many loaded questions"
- Pedro Moura, University of Lisbon and the University of Leuven, in IMAGE & NARRATIVE"Comics and the Senses is not just a highly original work within Cultural Studies, it also develops a framework of wide significance for all of the Humanities."
- Paolo Cardullo, Goldsmiths, University of London, in Visual Studies"Comics and the Senses succeeds in providing "a starting point, a catalogue, of the multisensory elements of comics," and it details several exciting ways in which comics have moved into 21st-century electronic media... [it] is an admirable resource for accessing scholarly theories about comics and for considering directions that future scholarship could take in relation to a rapidly expanding comics industry." - Brian Bates , ImageText
"Clearly written, with careful explanations and background information...a thought-provoking read, especially in its attempt to underscore theperformativity of comics reading experiences and the role of comics formats in moulding those experiences." - Maaheen Ahmed, Université Catholique de Louvain, in European Comic Arts
