Initially, I was quite smitten with this slim volume because Colin McGinn’s central thesis–that movies share essential qualities with dreams–is intuitively convincing and inviting. Why is it that nobody has to learn to watch a movie, that the free-roaming eye of the camera and the time-and-space-dissolving qualities of montage don’t disorient us (unless they’re meant [...]
Posts Tagged ‘theory’
Understanding Comics
I’ve been hearing good things about Scott McCloud’s comics-theory-in-comic-form for a solid decade now, and it really is very good. I always like a good diagram, and McCloud has a number of them: a pyramid of abstraction/increasing iconification of images and words, a nice layered model for how form, structure, craft, surface etc interact in [...]
