In this study we explore the relationship between literature and comics,through the transcription of a literary text into comics,and we examine the contribution of a preceded intervention-familiarization with comics t...In this study we explore the relationship between literature and comics,through the transcription of a literary text into comics,and we examine the contribution of a preceded intervention-familiarization with comics to the students’comics by drawing by hand and by creating them in the Cartoon Story Maker digital environment,aiming at comparing and evaluating the potential of the two media.Literature review reveals that the majority of the educational studies referring to the use of comics in education and the creation of digital comics by students,sets objectives,mainly adjusted to the teaching subject or even to pedagogical issues.On the other hand,they completely bypass the theoretical agenda of comic books and do not ensure a more substantial acquaintance with the comic book itself and the conventions or the meaning making mechanisms of the medium.Thus,we decided to conduct this study in order to fill the gap in the existing literature.According to the findings,the preceding teaching intervention had been constructive but the digital tool’s technical restrictions prohibited the full making use of the acquired knowledge concerning the language of comics.The hand-made comics were more imaginative and detailed in certain statistically significant factors.Regarding the relationship between the literary text and comics,the students adapted the literary language to the media specifications,remaining in both cases,mostly faithful to the main structure of the text.展开更多
In 1952, the federal government was called upon to investigate the comic book industry in order to determine if reading comic books influenced juvenile delinquency. The United States could not afford to look weak from...In 1952, the federal government was called upon to investigate the comic book industry in order to determine if reading comic books influenced juvenile delinquency. The United States could not afford to look weak from any angle; the idea of Communist nations exploiting moral weakness of any kind was frightening to many. However, the Soviets were already aware of moral issues on the American home front that were affecting the health of the nation, such as civil rights, sexism （sexual confusion）, a rise in fascism, and juvenile delinquency. This study will discuss the investigation of the comic book industry as the sole contributors to juvenile delinquent issues, as Fredric Wertham charged in his book Seduction of the Innocent. In addition, this study focuses on the ways in which Entertaining Comics （EC） pushed the envelope and challenged Cold War standards of ideal middle class values. Their creative resistance led to the federal investigation which nearly destroyed the comic book industry. Through these investigations, the federal government re-defined the first amendment as it applied to this type of media as a way to curtail what they believed was the Soviet Union＇s efforts to use our own literature as a propaganda tool for their people.展开更多
Nowadays,in the movie industry,marvel comics movies play an inevitable role,plenty of super heroes are becoming more and more popular to our spectators,such as:superman,Spider Man,Batman,lron Man,Captain America,Hulk,...Nowadays,in the movie industry,marvel comics movies play an inevitable role,plenty of super heroes are becoming more and more popular to our spectators,such as:superman,Spider Man,Batman,lron Man,Captain America,Hulk,Thor even the alliances Fantastic 4,The Avengers,Guardians of The Galaxy and so on,and this kind of movies occupies a significant part in the movie market.So why people like the super stares so much?And what sort of national culture can we find in these movies?This thesis concentrate on the questions l just mentioned,from the perspective of the renaissance,I will show you how and in what extent renaissance has influenced the marvel comics movies.展开更多
<strong>Aim:</strong> The aim of this mixed methods research was to develop an educational comic booklet to prevent pregnant women’s exposure to secondhand smoke. <strong>Methods:</strong> We ...<strong>Aim:</strong> The aim of this mixed methods research was to develop an educational comic booklet to prevent pregnant women’s exposure to secondhand smoke. <strong>Methods:</strong> We assessed the suitability of the comic booklet by measuring participant response to content, literacy demand, graphics, layout and typography, learning stimulation, motivation, and cultural appropriateness. The participants were 17 Indonesians living in Japan who were recruited through Respondent-Driven-Sampling and met all criteria for the survey. Means and standard deviations were used to determine the suitability of the educational comic. <strong>Results:</strong> About 80% of participants rated the comic as “superior” on a rating scale with options of “superior”, “adequate”, “not suitable”, or “not applicable”. The most successful aspects of the comic were content and cultural appropriateness, as it provided clear contents and the graphics showed realistic Indonesian smoking behavior. The least successful aspect of the comic was the literacy demand because there were long sentences using difficult words. <strong>Conclusions:</strong> The results of this study may be used to conduct a randomized controlled trial using this comic booklet with some modifications.展开更多
Greek classics, Homer, and the Greek tragedians, supposed to be the cornerstone of Western civilization, have long suffered from a stagnant and formalistic institutional approach. On the other hand, the adaptations, t...Greek classics, Homer, and the Greek tragedians, supposed to be the cornerstone of Western civilization, have long suffered from a stagnant and formalistic institutional approach. On the other hand, the adaptations, the transcriptions, or the transubstantiations of the Greek antiquity material into new stories and formats compose an abundant cultural field. Antiquity is diffused in a variety of texts, among comics as well. In this paper, we revise the comic books adaptations dealing with ancient Greek classics and classify them according to ＂the fidelity criterion-dilemma＂, to the kind of reader they imply and to the extent of authorial mastery they impose. When classics and comics collide, they create unexpected variations of the ancient material, reflecting the receiving culture＇s practices and beliefs.展开更多
The long-term biased critical reception of comics did not allow the medium＇s theoretical remodeling, the highlighting of its multidimensionality and complexity, and its establishment as a self-sufficient and serious ...The long-term biased critical reception of comics did not allow the medium＇s theoretical remodeling, the highlighting of its multidimensionality and complexity, and its establishment as a self-sufficient and serious narrative medium. The creators of graphic novels in an attempt to upgrade and restore their ＂ancestors＇＂ cultural status and to eliminate the negative stigma of the medium, by taking advantage of the self-referencing techniques, they try to redefine comics and reframe the field of their social practice. Graphic novels, even more, either allusively or straightforwardly, aquire metatextual quality, by exercising critique on the artistic phenomenon in general and on comics＇ history and theory in particular. Self-referentiality and metatextuality function as ＇internal legitimization apparatuses of the medium and provide graphic novels the right to participate in the theoretical discourse, negotiate or even rearticulate it.展开更多
" Pride and Prejudice" is one of Jane Austen's masterpieces. It is universally read from its magnificent opening sentence to the end and we can feel its author is great and the novel is well constructed...." Pride and Prejudice" is one of Jane Austen's masterpieces. It is universally read from its magnificent opening sentence to the end and we can feel its author is great and the novel is well constructed. In the most striking place, the use of comic irony makes us feel the comedy and satire of the whole novel and also the most shining people Elizabeth Bennet who gains the most admiration in print. From it, we can also appreciate the love and marriage between the ladies and gentlemen of the landed gentry; the complicated pride and prejudice between the hero and heroine which make the novel more vivid and believable and the characters more truthful than ever; the author's mastery of language and the great achievement of the novel.展开更多
Rich historical and humanistic resources and local characteristic culture provides a wealth of material for creation of comic and animation.In recent years,animation industry of our country has achieved rapid developm...Rich historical and humanistic resources and local characteristic culture provides a wealth of material for creation of comic and animation.In recent years,animation industry of our country has achieved rapid development.However,the limitations of the traditional concept and the external environment make the development of derivative products of local characteristic culture comic and animation advertising video still exists many problems.It need to strengthen efforts of derivatives development of this field,clear animation market positioning,pay attention to intellectual property protection,make animation industry of our country in a state of benign development.展开更多
Based on Grice's cooperation principle(CP),this essay attempts to explore the conversational implicature(CI) of English nonce words in comic humor with many examples from famous U.S sitcom Friends.From this new pe...Based on Grice's cooperation principle(CP),this essay attempts to explore the conversational implicature(CI) of English nonce words in comic humor with many examples from famous U.S sitcom Friends.From this new perspective,the paper proposes that the conversational implicatue in comic humor rcannot only be traditionally involved on sentence level,but also in new-coined words or phrases,so the reflection of the speaker's particular communicative needs can be exactly conveyed.展开更多
就牛津初中英语教材来说学生最喜欢上的板块就是Comic Strip&Welcome to the Unit,因为这个板块的漫画有趣,故事生动,语言简洁,换言之,这个板块更接近初中学生的认知与情感。在英语教学中教师要发挥这个板块的效用,给它增值,给学生...就牛津初中英语教材来说学生最喜欢上的板块就是Comic Strip&Welcome to the Unit,因为这个板块的漫画有趣,故事生动,语言简洁,换言之,这个板块更接近初中学生的认知与情感。在英语教学中教师要发挥这个板块的效用,给它增值,给学生更多心情上愉悦、情感上共鸣、生活上体验的情境。1.建构基于生活的画面情境,在情感上增值,正强化原理认为,通过对学生喜欢的东西进行强化,就能引发他们专心地进入相关的领域中去。学生喜欢漫画这一特质也成为他们喜欢这个板块的理由,学生喜欢在英语学习中遇见生活中的场景,这是他们喜欢这个板块的另外一个理由。展开更多
文摘In this study we explore the relationship between literature and comics,through the transcription of a literary text into comics,and we examine the contribution of a preceded intervention-familiarization with comics to the students’comics by drawing by hand and by creating them in the Cartoon Story Maker digital environment,aiming at comparing and evaluating the potential of the two media.Literature review reveals that the majority of the educational studies referring to the use of comics in education and the creation of digital comics by students,sets objectives,mainly adjusted to the teaching subject or even to pedagogical issues.On the other hand,they completely bypass the theoretical agenda of comic books and do not ensure a more substantial acquaintance with the comic book itself and the conventions or the meaning making mechanisms of the medium.Thus,we decided to conduct this study in order to fill the gap in the existing literature.According to the findings,the preceding teaching intervention had been constructive but the digital tool’s technical restrictions prohibited the full making use of the acquired knowledge concerning the language of comics.The hand-made comics were more imaginative and detailed in certain statistically significant factors.Regarding the relationship between the literary text and comics,the students adapted the literary language to the media specifications,remaining in both cases,mostly faithful to the main structure of the text.
文摘In 1952, the federal government was called upon to investigate the comic book industry in order to determine if reading comic books influenced juvenile delinquency. The United States could not afford to look weak from any angle; the idea of Communist nations exploiting moral weakness of any kind was frightening to many. However, the Soviets were already aware of moral issues on the American home front that were affecting the health of the nation, such as civil rights, sexism （sexual confusion）, a rise in fascism, and juvenile delinquency. This study will discuss the investigation of the comic book industry as the sole contributors to juvenile delinquent issues, as Fredric Wertham charged in his book Seduction of the Innocent. In addition, this study focuses on the ways in which Entertaining Comics （EC） pushed the envelope and challenged Cold War standards of ideal middle class values. Their creative resistance led to the federal investigation which nearly destroyed the comic book industry. Through these investigations, the federal government re-defined the first amendment as it applied to this type of media as a way to curtail what they believed was the Soviet Union＇s efforts to use our own literature as a propaganda tool for their people.
文摘Nowadays,in the movie industry,marvel comics movies play an inevitable role,plenty of super heroes are becoming more and more popular to our spectators,such as:superman,Spider Man,Batman,lron Man,Captain America,Hulk,Thor even the alliances Fantastic 4,The Avengers,Guardians of The Galaxy and so on,and this kind of movies occupies a significant part in the movie market.So why people like the super stares so much?And what sort of national culture can we find in these movies?This thesis concentrate on the questions l just mentioned,from the perspective of the renaissance,I will show you how and in what extent renaissance has influenced the marvel comics movies.
文摘<strong>Aim:</strong> The aim of this mixed methods research was to develop an educational comic booklet to prevent pregnant women’s exposure to secondhand smoke. <strong>Methods:</strong> We assessed the suitability of the comic booklet by measuring participant response to content, literacy demand, graphics, layout and typography, learning stimulation, motivation, and cultural appropriateness. The participants were 17 Indonesians living in Japan who were recruited through Respondent-Driven-Sampling and met all criteria for the survey. Means and standard deviations were used to determine the suitability of the educational comic. <strong>Results:</strong> About 80% of participants rated the comic as “superior” on a rating scale with options of “superior”, “adequate”, “not suitable”, or “not applicable”. The most successful aspects of the comic were content and cultural appropriateness, as it provided clear contents and the graphics showed realistic Indonesian smoking behavior. The least successful aspect of the comic was the literacy demand because there were long sentences using difficult words. <strong>Conclusions:</strong> The results of this study may be used to conduct a randomized controlled trial using this comic booklet with some modifications.
文摘Greek classics, Homer, and the Greek tragedians, supposed to be the cornerstone of Western civilization, have long suffered from a stagnant and formalistic institutional approach. On the other hand, the adaptations, the transcriptions, or the transubstantiations of the Greek antiquity material into new stories and formats compose an abundant cultural field. Antiquity is diffused in a variety of texts, among comics as well. In this paper, we revise the comic books adaptations dealing with ancient Greek classics and classify them according to ＂the fidelity criterion-dilemma＂, to the kind of reader they imply and to the extent of authorial mastery they impose. When classics and comics collide, they create unexpected variations of the ancient material, reflecting the receiving culture＇s practices and beliefs.
文摘The long-term biased critical reception of comics did not allow the medium＇s theoretical remodeling, the highlighting of its multidimensionality and complexity, and its establishment as a self-sufficient and serious narrative medium. The creators of graphic novels in an attempt to upgrade and restore their ＂ancestors＇＂ cultural status and to eliminate the negative stigma of the medium, by taking advantage of the self-referencing techniques, they try to redefine comics and reframe the field of their social practice. Graphic novels, even more, either allusively or straightforwardly, aquire metatextual quality, by exercising critique on the artistic phenomenon in general and on comics＇ history and theory in particular. Self-referentiality and metatextuality function as ＇internal legitimization apparatuses of the medium and provide graphic novels the right to participate in the theoretical discourse, negotiate or even rearticulate it.
文摘" Pride and Prejudice" is one of Jane Austen's masterpieces. It is universally read from its magnificent opening sentence to the end and we can feel its author is great and the novel is well constructed. In the most striking place, the use of comic irony makes us feel the comedy and satire of the whole novel and also the most shining people Elizabeth Bennet who gains the most admiration in print. From it, we can also appreciate the love and marriage between the ladies and gentlemen of the landed gentry; the complicated pride and prejudice between the hero and heroine which make the novel more vivid and believable and the characters more truthful than ever; the author's mastery of language and the great achievement of the novel.
文摘Rich historical and humanistic resources and local characteristic culture provides a wealth of material for creation of comic and animation.In recent years,animation industry of our country has achieved rapid development.However,the limitations of the traditional concept and the external environment make the development of derivative products of local characteristic culture comic and animation advertising video still exists many problems.It need to strengthen efforts of derivatives development of this field,clear animation market positioning,pay attention to intellectual property protection,make animation industry of our country in a state of benign development.
文摘Based on Grice's cooperation principle(CP),this essay attempts to explore the conversational implicature(CI) of English nonce words in comic humor with many examples from famous U.S sitcom Friends.From this new perspective,the paper proposes that the conversational implicatue in comic humor rcannot only be traditionally involved on sentence level,but also in new-coined words or phrases,so the reflection of the speaker's particular communicative needs can be exactly conveyed.
文摘就牛津初中英语教材来说学生最喜欢上的板块就是Comic Strip&Welcome to the Unit,因为这个板块的漫画有趣,故事生动,语言简洁,换言之,这个板块更接近初中学生的认知与情感。在英语教学中教师要发挥这个板块的效用,给它增值,给学生更多心情上愉悦、情感上共鸣、生活上体验的情境。1.建构基于生活的画面情境,在情感上增值,正强化原理认为,通过对学生喜欢的东西进行强化,就能引发他们专心地进入相关的领域中去。学生喜欢漫画这一特质也成为他们喜欢这个板块的理由,学生喜欢在英语学习中遇见生活中的场景,这是他们喜欢这个板块的另外一个理由。
