MONTHLY FIELD REPORT.

From Volume XLIV, No. I, SEPTEMBER 2008.

Excerpt:

      « In Visual Intelligence, Ann Marie Seward Barry discusses the relationship between images and emotions and concludes, based on the fact that 'the image is perceptually processed along the same alternative pathways as direct experience', '[t]he image is [...] capable of reaching the emotions before it is cognitively understood' (78) [...] »

Footnotes:

¹ Although Barry’s elevation of image over text is geared towards my focus on the image-emotion relationship in JC, it is still troublesome due to the advent of such ideas as Craig Stroupe’s « hybrid of verbal and visual literacies » (25). Thus, I am not advocating the absolute dismissal of text; rather, I am simply focusing more on the image in relation to visual affect in JC.

² « Interactive participants », as Kress and van Leeuwen note, « [...] are the participants in the act of communication – the participants who speak and listen or write and read, make images or view them » (48); this particular term is helpful because of its all-encompassing nature.

³ Wolk’s comments of Ware’s comics are relative to Herriman, someone who « drew some of the slowest-reading comics on record » (355).

Workes Cited:

Barry, Ann Marie Seward. Visual Intelligence: Perception, Image, and Manipulation in Visual Communication. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.

Ware, Chris. Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.

Wolk, Douglas. Reading Comics: How Comics Work and What They Mean. Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2007.

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