Persepolis and Graphic Novel Analysis

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Graphic Novel Analysis

And how to apply visual analysis to other texts

What do you remember of graphic novel analysis when we read Maus?

Graphic Novel terminology - match the terms with their eplanation

Panel

Splash

Emanata

Graphic Weight

Voiceover

Gutter

the framed image

a panel that spans the width of the page

symbols that the artist draws besides character's faces to portray emotion

This term is used to discuss the amount of contrast in an image

Speech directly aimed at reader

Space between panels

Graphic Novel - terminology

- Panel - Panel refers to the framed image. It offers the reader a perspective or point of view on the subjects also known as the camera angle. Sometimes panels do not have borders, creating a unique effect where the subject seems to stand outside the storyline.

- Splash - Splash is a kind of panel that spans the width of the page. If it runs off the page entirely, it is known as a ‘bleed’.

- Voice over - Narrators have the possibility to speak directly to the reader through a voice over. Usually this is done with a hard line separating the narrator’s speech at the top or bottom of a panel from the image within the panel.

- Emanata - This term refers to the teardrops, sweat drops, question marks, or motion lines that artists draw besides characters’ faces to portray emotion.

- Gutter - This refers to the space between panels. Readers tend to ‘fill in the blanks’ and imagine what happens between panels, a process known as ‘closure’.

Panel - Panel refers to the framed image. It offers the reader a perspective or point of view on the subjects also known as the camera angle. Sometimes panels do not have borders, creating a unique effect where the subject seems to stand outside the storyline.

- Splash - Splash is a kind of panel that spans the width of the page. If it runs off the page entirely, it is known as a ‘bleed’.

- Voice over - Narrators have the possibility to speak directly to the reader through a voice over. Usually this is done with a hard line separating the narrator’s speech at the top or bottom of a panel from the image within the panel.

- Emanata - This term refers to the teardrops, sweat drops, question marks, or motion lines that artists draw besides characters’ faces to portray emotion.

- Gutter - This refers to the space between panels. Readers tend to ‘fill in the blanks’ and imagine what happens between panels, a process known as ‘closure’.

- Graphic weight – This term is used to discuss the amount of contrast in an image. Are blacks offset with whites? Are there many shades of grey in between? With regards to colour images, one can look for the degree to which colours are vivid or opaque.

Close reading analysis

Name a symbol and its meaning

Give an example of emanata and write down the effect of its use.

00:13

What do the graphics illustrate here?

1. The contrast between what is told and what is illustrated
2. The symbols of strength and weakness
3. The emphasis of the current situation in Iran
4. To highlight the words of the narrator

00:50

1. What is the effect of the illustrations here?
2. What does the snake symbolise?

01:35

Which (familiar) contrast do you witness in the woman looking at the window of the shop? Your answer may also contain contextual information.

03:55

Which four symbols are being used and what do they represent?

04:30

Who is the enemy and why?