Dissertation
UNFOLDING TIME: The Mechanics of Narrative Fold-Ins
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Doctor of Creative Arts, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25907/00054
Abstract
THIS DOCTORAL PROJECT ANALYSES multimodal representations of time in comics and other visual narratives. The research comprises a creative artefact and exegesis which explore the meaning-making potential of the accordionfolded format with a focus on temporal paradox, metaphor and materiality. The creative artefact is designed as six accordion-folded comic booklets that aim to manipulate the reading experience through foregrounding and the construction of a multi-perspective narrative via ‘narrative fold-ins’. The accompanying exegesis analyses apposite theoretical principles including multimodal viewpoint construction, cognitive linguistics, multistable perception, metalepses, metaphor and gestalt. These principles are discussed in relation to a range of published works which use the spatiotemporal structure and materiality of the book-as-object to encourage play, contribute to narrative, disrupt time and undermine assumptions about linear storytelling. Works by a range of artists are investigated including Alison Bechdel, Eddie Campbell, Eleanor Davis, Dominique Goblet, Kevin Huizenga, Andy Poyiadgi, Joe Sacco, Dave McKean, Art Spiegelman, James Jean, Adrian Tomine and Chris Ware.
These analyses are founded in emerging paradigms for comic studies, including the dichotomous and ‘storyboard’ (sequential-art) approaches popularised by Scott McCloud (1993, 2006), Thierry Groensteen’s ‘braided approach’ (2007), interdependent and experimental approaches (Hatfield 2005) and cognitivist semiotic approaches (Cohn 2010), among others. The literature review also looks beyond comics to explore a wide range of multimodal primary sources relating to temporality, materiality and narrative. The exegesis concludes with an exposition of the knowledge outcomes resultant from the creative practice central to this research, contributing to the field by broadening current approaches to comic creation and criticism for hybrid comic forms.
Details
- Title
- UNFOLDING TIME: The Mechanics of Narrative Fold-Ins
- Authors
- Thomas Hamlyn-Harris
- Contributors
- Ross Watkins (Supervisor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
- Awarding institution
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Degree awarded
- Doctor of Creative Arts
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- DOI
- 10.25907/00054
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99523208502621
- Output Type
- Dissertation
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