Sensing/Scrolling/Scanning Comics: media materialities, narrative modalities, and perceptual affordances
This article aims to examine the theoretical question of sensory and narrative regimes put into operation by the experience of webcomics. Starting from a critique of the precept according to which changes in supports cause a necessary change in reading regimes, a more adequate status to the notion o...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université Paris XIII
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Comicalités |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/7914 |
| Summary: | This article aims to examine the theoretical question of sensory and narrative regimes put into operation by the experience of webcomics. Starting from a critique of the precept according to which changes in supports cause a necessary change in reading regimes, a more adequate status to the notion of modality is recovered here—in its application to the narrative structures and perceptual dynamics of the comic book experience. Identifying a hypothetical community between printed or digital materialities of comics, this article concludes that their narrative and sensory modalities are not reduced to such media profiles, but to something that modal versions of narratology designate as “modality” (in Genette)—or that aspects of visual psychology define by the idea of perceptual “affordances” (in Gibson). |
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| ISSN: | 2117-4911 |