Reflecting the masculine ethos of the larger comic book industry, superhero comics continue to be male-dominated spaces. Within comic studies, superhero scholars problematically normalize this androcentrism by reiterating the genre’s masculinist rhetoric, repeatedly positioning superheroes as stoic figures of whiteness, nationhood, heteronormativity and able-bodied masculinity. Although some intervention has been made to challenge these interpretations, scholars fail to acknowledge how transgender and/or transsexual readers evaluate comic heroes. This thesis provides one such intervention into the field, specifically focusing on the last son of Krypton, Superman. Drawing together the work of trans, queer, feminist, psychoanalytic, and monster theorists, my research attempts to “trans” Superman; thus, (re)reading the Man of Steel in a way that distinctly reflects the experiences of those who are denied access to the figure via their/our own gender “transgressions”. By interpolating transsexuality into the Superman narrative, I rewrite the figure’s place within the genre’s cis-sexist, masculinist history and while doing so, (re)position him as a more suitable hero for the trans community. / Thesis (Master, Gender Studies) -- Queen's University, 2013-12-05 10:35:05.511

O presente estudo analisa as relações entre a forma quadrinística e o conhecimento histórico científico tomando os casos específicos das obras Adiós, Xamigo Brasileño (...); Redescobrindo o Brasil; e D. João Carioca (...). Tal análise se faz por meio das metodologias das teorias comunicativa das histórias em quadrinhos e da didática da história em relação interdisciplinar. / The present research analyzes the relationship between sequential art form and scientific history knowledge in the specific case studies of the works Adiós, Xamigo Brasileño (...); Redescobrindo o Brasil; e D. João Carioca (...). Such analysis is made by interdisciplinary methods informed by communication theory on sequential art and history didactic theory.

Submitted by Morgana Silva (morgana_linhares@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-07-15T19:45:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 5121700 bytes, checksum: 14f876020fea4e1b76ca3005fcd99764 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-15T19:45:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 5121700 bytes, checksum: 14f876020fea4e1b76ca3005fcd99764 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / From a more traditional point of view, it is common to treat photography as a piece of reality, as a technique capable of recording a single moment, the "decisive moment". However, it is in seeking to reveal other paths followed, other photographic possibilities, that this dissertation is structured. From the record of an action or an idea that does not end in a single instant capture, the spatiotemporal relationship in photography gets other dimensions. This type of expansion can be analyzed in the photographic sequences, the central theme of this dissertation. Thus, our approach emphasizes works that have a chain of pictures, which, interconnected, offer the viewer an idea of continuity of what one wants to express. Developing a definition of photographic sequence, we analyzed some modes of creation and how the production of meaning through the visual elements of sequential art and, of course, of photography, works. In addition, we point out, in this discussion, the sequence as a way to enhance the narrative and expressive character of the photographic medium, which consequently relates to other areas of artistic expression. We aim here photography as a significant system, wide in creative possibilities and increasingly absorbed, in various ways, by the art field. The theoretical and exploratory research of this work is based, in addition to the bibliography of areas related to the theme, on the work and the creative process of some artists who make use of photographic sequences in their art. We give special attention to the photographer Duane Michals, a very important figure in the landscape of contemporary photography, and precursor in the creation of photographic sequences telling stories or showing poetry. / Sob um ponto de vista mais tradicional, é comum que a fotografia seja tratada enquanto fragmento da realidade, enquanto técnica capaz de registrar um momento único, o “instante decisivo”. No entanto, é na busca de revelar outros caminhos seguidos, outras possibilidades fotográficas, que o presente trabalho se fundamenta. A partir do registro de uma ação ou de uma ideia que não se encerra em um único instante de captura, a relação espaço-temporal na fotografia ganha outras dimensões. Esse tipo de expansão pode ser analisado nas sequências fotográficas, tema central desta dissertação. Com isso, nossa abordagem enfatiza trabalhos que apresentam um encadeamento de fotos que, interligadas, oferecem ao espectador uma ideia de continuidade do que se quer expressar. Desenvolvendo uma definição de sequência fotográfica, analisamos quais seus possíveis modos de criação e como se dá a produção de sentido através de elementos visuais próprios da arte sequencial e, claro, da fotografia. Além disso, destacamos, nessa discussão, a sequência enquanto forma de se potencializar o caráter narrativo e expressivo do meio fotográfico, o que, consequentemente, o aproxima de outras áreas de expressão artística. Visamos aqui a fotografia enquanto sistema significante, vasto em possiblidades criativas e sendo cada vez mais absorvido, de formas diversas, pelo campo da arte. A pesquisa teórica e exploratória deste trabalho tem como base, além da bibliografia de áreas relacionadas ao tema, o trabalho e o processo criativo de alguns artistas que fazem uso da sequência fotográfica em suas obras. Damos destaque especial ao fotógrafo Duane Michals, figura de grande relevância no cenário da fotografia contemporânea, sendo precursor na criação de sequências fotográficas que se aproximam de histórias e poemas visuais.

O presente estudo analisa as relações entre a forma quadrinística e o conhecimento histórico científico tomando os casos específicos das obras Adiós, Xamigo Brasileño (...); Redescobrindo o Brasil; e D. João Carioca (...). Tal análise se faz por meio das metodologias das teorias comunicativa das histórias em quadrinhos e da didática da história em relação interdisciplinar. / The present research analyzes the relationship between sequential art form and scientific history knowledge in the specific case studies of the works Adiós, Xamigo Brasileño (...); Redescobrindo o Brasil; e D. João Carioca (...). Such analysis is made by interdisciplinary methods informed by communication theory on sequential art and history didactic theory.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:14:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Efrem Pedroza Bezerra.pdf: 9781407 bytes, checksum: dc8ead98b4145d2b9bb86eaa3f4c2db0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research investigates the communication process in the Spirit comics, examining the image in sequential art. The corpus of analysis of this study was assembled from the Spirit of comics character created by Will Eisner, with chosen among the publications from 1940 to 1952 editions. The object of research is the character Spirit, the process of creation and development of resources created and exploited by Eisner, such as the preference for black and white, close up, the splash pages and other factors that contributed comparative and associatively for the construction of communication through the image in the "Ninth Art". The guiding research question is: how comic books and their own way of narrating contribute to the construction of meaning in communication and cognition? For the development of research, we consider the following hypothesis: thanks to authors who are trapped by rules and standards by market demand, not every comic vehemently expresses its communicative power. In this sphere there are those who can find loopholes and innovate. This justifies the choice by Eisner s Spirit. Diversely other producing more of the same, Eisner, built the art in comics. Thus, your character creates a cognitive operation in which the reader is led to a sensory journey that helps to stimulate the creation of connections through the image. The objective of the research is to investigate the process of communication through the image in sequential art and the resonance of this reflection on their practice. Vilém Flusser and the theoretical construction of the relationship between images will provide the main methodological strategies through narratives modulations Einser uses in the comics of the Spirit. The theoretical framework focuses on authors who study the supplementary understanding of sequential art visual elements such as Will Eisner himself, Scott Mccloud, Stan Lee and Moacy Cirne; in addition of authors dedicated to the question of image, as Georges Didi-Huberman, Hans Belting, the aforementioned Vilém Flusser and semiotician Charles Sanders Peirce / A presente pesquisa investiga o processo de comunicação nos quadrinhos do Spirit, examinando a imagem na arte sequencial. O corpus de análise do presente trabalho foi reunido a partir das HQs do Spirit, personagem criado por Will Eisner, com edições escolhidas entre as publicações de 1940 a 1952. O objeto de pesquisa é o personagem Spirit, seu processo de criação e evolução dos recursos criados e explorados por Eisner, tais como: a preferência pelo preto e branco, o close up, as splash pages e outros fatores que contribuíram comparativa e associativamente para a construção da comunicação por intermédio da imagem na Nona Arte . A questão norteadora da investigação é: como as histórias em quadrinhos e seu próprio modo de narrar contribuem para a construção de sentidos e cognição na comunicação? Para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa, considera-se a seguinte hipótese: graças a autores que ficam presos a regras e padrões por demanda de mercado, nem todo quadrinho manifesta com veemência seu poder comunicativo. Nessa esfera há aqueles que conseguem encontrar brechas e inovam. Isso justifica a escolha pelo Spirit de Eisner. Diversamente de outros que produziam mais do mesmo, Eisner, construía a arte nos quadrinhos. Dessa forma, seu personagem cria uma operação cognitiva em que o leitor é levado a uma jornada sensorial que contribui para o estímulo da criação de conexões por meio da imagem. O objetivo da pesquisa é investigar o processo de comunicação através da imagem na arte sequencial e a ressonância dessa reflexão em sua prática. Vilém Flusser e a construção teórica da relação entre imagens proverão as principais estratégias metodológicas por meio das modulações narrativas que Einser utiliza nas histórias em quadrinhos do Spirit. A fundamentação teórica se concentra em autores que estudam os elementos visuais complementares à compreensão da arte sequencial como o próprio Will Eisner, Scott Mccloud, Stan Lee e Moacy Cirne; além de autores dedicados à questão da imagem, como Georges Didi-Huberman, Hans Belting, o já citado Vilém Flusser e o semioticista Charles Sanders Peirce

The Revisionist comics of the 1980s to present represent an effort to literally revise the existing conventions of mainstream comics. The most prominent and common device employed by the Revisionists was self-reflexivity; thus, they created metacomics. The Revisionists make a spectacle of critically interrogating the conventions of mainstream comics, but do so using those same conventions: formal, generic, stylistic, etc. At their most practical level, Revisionist metacomics denaturalise the dominant genres of the American mainstream and therefore also denaturalise the ideological underpinnings of those genres. At their most abstract level, they destabilise the concepts of "fiction," "reality," "realism," and "fantasy," and even collapse them into each other. Chapter 1 explains my methodological approach to metacomics: formal (sequence and hybridity), self-reflexive (metafiction, metapictures, metacomics), and finally denaturalising (articulation and myth). Chapter 2 analyses two metacomic cycles in the mainstream (the Crisis and Squadron Supreme cycles) and surveys the self-reflexive elements of Underground comix (specifically with regard to gender and feminist concerns). Chapter 3 presents three motifs in Revisionist comics by which they denaturalise the superhero: the dictator-hero, postmodern historiography, and fantasy genres. Finally, Chapter 4 analyses three major Revisionist comic-book seriesTransmetropolitan, Promethea, and Sandmanall of which comment on contemporary culture and the nature of representation using the dominant genres of American comics (science fiction, superhero, and fantasy, respectively). / English

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This thesis presents young British readers? engagement with manga regarding literary, aesthetic, social, and cultural dimensions. The study explores young readers? points of views of their reading preference ? manga. I investigated how children interpreted manga, with respect to the artistic techniques, the embedded ideologies, and the cultural elements therein. I also looked into children?s participation in manga fandom and its social meanings. This allowed me to explore what attracted British readers to this exotic text. This study involved 16 participants from two schools, aged between 10 and 15, with genders represented equally. The participants were grouped by gender in each school. Each group of students received three group interviews based on three manga that they were required to read in advance. Individual interviews with each student followed the group interviews, and all the students were asked to keep reading reflections. The findings show that the attraction of participants to manga includes at least five dimensions. First, manga is a visually rich text, which not only had great power in rendering vicarious experiences to the students, but also allowed the struggling students to grasp the meanings of the text better. Second, both the verbal and the visual storytelling were characterised as fragmentary, which inspired the students? imagination to join the creation of the story. Third, manga provided a temporary shelter where the participants could forget a stressful and frustrating reality. In addition, they felt that they gained renewed hope, refreshed energy, and insights to face potential challenges and difficulties in their lives. Fourth, the elements of Japaneseness and otherness made manga reading a rich experience of an exotic culture. Fifth, manga afforded collective pleasures in fan communities where the students could express their passion and gained a sense of identity.