Comics and the Senses: A Multisensory Approach to Comics and Graphic Novels
- Submitting institution
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University of the Arts, London
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 108
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415713979
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Comics and the Senses is a research monograph that argues that comics is not just a visual medium. It also asserts that Comics Studies’ ocularcentrism (emphasis on the visual) has distorted its understanding of the medium of comics and excluded various multisensory aspects of the form and audiences (e.g. the visually impaired). It includes discussions of the five senses as they are employed by comics, as well as a case study of the works of Alan Moore in terms of multisensory analysis. Although the book was drawn from Hague’s PhD, changes were made throughout the text in response to more recent scholarship and peer- and editorial review by the publisher. As a result of this research, Hague was invited to give two keynote speeches, at conferences in Germany and Poland, and was described in a recent publication as ‘the leading authority on non-visual sensory aspects of comics’ (Kashtan 2018, 98). The book inspired an MIT Master’s thesis on comics for the blind (Lord, 2016), which extended some of the ideas in Comics and the Senses into a related area. Aspects of this book were also discussed in the book chapter ‘A Defining Problem’ in the collection Comics & Politik — Comics & Politics.
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- Non-English
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