TY - CHAP

T1 - Global Immediacy

AU - Sprenger, Florian

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - This chapter analyses closure, along with the two other key principles of the comic form, the cartoonish representation and the sequential arrangement of individual, framed panels, against a neuroscientific background. Comic stories are composed of visual and linguistic elements that complement one another in the generation of meaning. Cartoonish depiction in comics means a concise depiction which is limited to a few fundamental, iconic characteristics and emotions. The impression of a continual sequential structure through successive individual illustrations occurs when the reader fills the gaps between the depicted objects, forms, figures and language. The depicted people and objects form a chase scene with the man in the foreground attempting to flee. According to the mechanisms of scene segmentation, the reader pieces together the depicted lines, figures, sounds and forms of speech, based on stored empirical content, into identifiable visual and linguistic objects.

AB - This chapter analyses closure, along with the two other key principles of the comic form, the cartoonish representation and the sequential arrangement of individual, framed panels, against a neuroscientific background. Comic stories are composed of visual and linguistic elements that complement one another in the generation of meaning. Cartoonish depiction in comics means a concise depiction which is limited to a few fundamental, iconic characteristics and emotions. The impression of a continual sequential structure through successive individual illustrations occurs when the reader fills the gaps between the depicted objects, forms, figures and language. The depicted people and objects form a chase scene with the man in the foreground attempting to flee. According to the mechanisms of scene segmentation, the reader pieces together the depicted lines, figures, sounds and forms of speech, based on stored empirical content, into identifiable visual and linguistic objects.

KW - Digital media

U2 - 10.4324/9781315654195

DO - 10.4324/9781315654195

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 1848934610

SN - 978-1-84893-461-0

T3 - Studies for the International Society for Cultural History

SP - 31

EP - 46

BT - McLuhan's Global Village Today

A2 - Birkle, Carmen

A2 - Krewani, Angela

A2 - Küster, Martin

PB - Pickering & Chatto

CY - London

ER -