Documentary Graphic Novels and Social Realism

by Jeff Adams

This book analyses graphic novels which document social crises. It demonstrates that artists' documentary use of this medium is a form of social realism, inextricably bound up with politics and ideology. Theoretical and visual approaches are employed throughout, introducing the principal themes of the graphic novels under scrutiny: political realism, visual documentary, traumatic childhood, ethnic discrimination, state oppression, and military occupation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3039113623
• ISBN13: 9783039113620
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"