This edited volume brings together work in the field of empirical comics research. Drawing on computer and cognitive science, psychology and art history, linguistics and literary studies, each chapter presents innovative methods and establishes the practical and theoretical motivations for the quantitative study of comics, manga, and graphic novels. Individual chapters focus on corpus studies, the potential of crowdsourcing for comics research, annotation and narrative analysis, cognitive processing and reception studies. This volume opens up new perspectives for the study of visual narrative, making it a key reference for anyone interested in the scientific study of art and literature as well as the digital humanities.
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures (ix) Acknowledgement (xv)
1. Alexander Dunst, Jochen Laubrock and Janina Wildfeuer: Comics and Empirical Research: An Introduction (1)
I. Digital Approaches to Comics Research (25) 2. Bart Beaty, Nick Sousanis and Benjamin Woo: Two Per Cent of What? Constructing a Corpus of Typical American Comic Books (27) 3. Alexander Dunst and Rita Hartel: The Quantitative Analysis of Comics: Towards a Visual Stylometry of Graphic Narrative (43) 4. John Walsh, Shawn Martin and Jennifer St. Germain: “The Spider’s Web”: An Analysis of Fan Mail from Amazing Spider-Man, 1963–1995 (62) 5. Mihnea Tufis and Jean-Gabriel Ganascia: Crowdsourcing Comics Annotations (85) 6. Christophe Rigaud and Jean-Christophe Burie: Computer Vision Applied to Comic Book Images (104)
II. Linguistics and Multimodal Analysis 7. John A. Bateman, Annika Beckmann and Rocio Varela: From Empirical Studies to Visual Narrative Organization: Exploring Page Composition 8. Chiao-I Tseng, Jochen Laubrock and Jana Pflaeging: Character Developments in Comics and Graphic Novels: A Systematic Analytical Scheme 9. Hans-Jürgen Bucher and Bettina Boy: How Informative are Information Comics in Science Communication? Empirical Results from an Eye Tracking Study and Knowledge Testing 10. Pascal Lefèvre and Gert Meesters: The Interpretation of an Evolving Line Drawing
III. Cognitive Processing and Comprehension 11. Lester Loschky, John P. Hutson, Maverick E. Smith, Tim J. Smith and Joseph P. Magliano: Viewing Static Visual Narratives Through the Lens of the Scene Perception and Event Comprehension Theory 12. Jochen Laubrock, Sven Hohenstein and Matthias Kümmerer: Attention to Comics: Cognitive Processing during Reading of Graphic Literature 13. Clare Kirtley, Christopher Murray, Phillip B. Vaughan and Benjamin W. Tatler: Reading Words and Images: Factors Influencing Eye Movements in Comic Reading 14. Joseph P. Magliano, James Clinton, Edward J. O’Brien and David N. Rapp: Detecting Differences Between Adapted Narratives: Implication of Order of Modality on Exposure (284) 15. Neil Cohn: Visual Language Theory and the Scientific Study of Comics (305)
Glossary (329) List of Contributors (337) Index (347)
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