Ephemeral landscapes Site map/outline
FRONT PAGE Little pictures Subject: popular views of the world Models for understanding the material artifact The landscape of the page The landscape in the page Integrating in and of Copy(rights) Bibliography (citations) Bibliography (grouped, with notes) Links Topics in material culture main website (Ephemeral version 1)		EPHEMERAL LANDSCAPES front page Subject: popular views of the world The range of comic art Project: comic-book views and a comic-book world   MODELS FOR UNDERSTANDING THE MATERIAL ARTIFACT The artifact as collectible Readers, collectors, creators and consumers The sources of "modern" comics Material culture: Prown's "Mind in Matter" Description Deduction Speculation Other models for analysis Comics may not be so easy to reaD   THE LANDSCAPE OF THE PAGE The inside view of comics BRACKETING MODERNITY "Pre"history -- the fencing manual "Pre"history -- Hogarth "Pre"history -- Töpffer "Post"history -- Coconino World, France "Post"history -- McCloud COMIC FUNDAMENTS Comic production Self-consciousness Exercices de style Comic realism Comic surrealism The sound and silence of the page: the balloon Motion and movement COMIC STORYTELLING -- FRAMING, PACING, STYLING . . . Time -- transition and duration Forms of framing scenes and transitions between them Viewpoint and perspective Splashes Line, shade, colour Wit, witlessness, parody, satire, and the suspension of disbelief Constraints   THE LANDSCAPE IN THE PAGE What's in a landscape? Background and foreground Images of architecture, with and without architects Dreaming the adventure Crime settings and dystopias Living in the material world -- lifestyle and irony Comic-book settings and architectural nostalgia   INTEGRATING IN AND OF Settings and images of the world Conclusions, 1: comics as MassPopCultArt Conclusions, 2: the material value of comic art Conclusions, 3: what a comic really is   Copyrights © Mark Fram 2000 and many others Bibliography (text citations)
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