Episode 15 The Semiotic Language of Visual Story-telling: Understanding Comics
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Recommended Reading: Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics (1993), paid link Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility and Other Writings on Media (republished version, 2008), paid link Wassily Kandinsky, "On the Problem of Form" (1922 essay), free link Quoted audio excerpts are from the below sources: Scott McCloud's interview at Radcliff Institute, free link Disney Plus's Marvel Series "Behind the Mask" trailers, retrievable on Youtube Support the show (http://patreon.com/theglobalnovel)
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