Documentary Graphic Novels and Social Realism

Documentary Graphic Novels and Social Realism
By:"Jeff Adams"
Published on 2008 by Peter Lang

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. The key works examined are Keiji Nakazawa's \

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