Visual Storytelling in the 21st Century: The Age of the Long Fragment

Acknowledgements
About the Book
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Visual Storytelling in the Age of the Long Fragment
	Acceleration
	The Long Fragment
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 2: Forms and Order: Making the World More Just Through Video Games?
	Introduction
	Wholes
	Rhythm
	Hierarchy
	Network
	Conclusion
	References
		Games
Chapter 3: Video Games as Animation: Inquiries into the Animatic Nature of Playable Images
	Introduction: Video Games, Animation, and Visual Culture
	Video Games as Images
	Video Games and the Animatic Apparatus
	Five Paths for Video Games as Animatic Visual Culture
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 4: Wonder, Awe and Negative Emotions in What Remains of Edith Finch
	Introduction
	Storytelling
	Emotion
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Look Behind You, Orpheus: Queer Archeology and Mythical Lesbians in Contemporary Film
	Introduction
	Tracing a Ghost
	Framing a Ghost
	Living with the Ghost
	References
Chapter 6: “All These Things into Position”: Intermedial Storytelling via Radiohead’s “Street Spirit,” the Novels of Ben Okri, and Feminist Dystopia
	Introduction: From The Handmaid’s Tale to Postcolonial Intermediality
	The Soundtrack of The Handmaid’s Tale: Three Cases
	The Crossing: Storytelling, Borderline Identities, and Images of Transition
	Conclusion: Storytelling, Borderline Identities, and Images of Transition
	References
Chapter 7: What’s the Story? How Hybrid Comics Against Gender Violence Rework Narrative and Support Artivism
	Introduction
	The Luchadoras Project: The Merits of Low Narrativity
	Matrioske Parlanti: Comics Between Intersectionality and Distributed Narrative
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8: Voices of Graffiti in Urban Settings: Symbolic Contestation and Political Narratives
	Introduction
	Conceptual Dimensions
	Graffiti as Visual Narratives
	Urban Setting Narratives
	Visual Writers and Voices of the Crisis
	Method, Assembly, and the Use of Images
	Looking Ahead
	References
Chapter 9: Bourne-Again Bond: Retooling the Spy Story in the New Millennium
	Introduction
	Intramedial Espionage
	Location, Action, Technologies
		The Choice and Use of Film Locations
		Action Sequences
		The Representation of Advanced Technologies
	Conclusion
	References
		Filmography
Chapter 10: Monsters in Animation and Related Nightmares in Contemporary Popular Culture
	Introducing Monsters
	Exported Popular Culture and Monsters
	Animation: Cultural Dominance for the Young
	Monsters: Who Are They and Why Do We Need Them?
	Monsters, Violence, and Animation
	Cute Monsters, Cute Violence
	Corpus
	Dissecting the Shrek Saga
	Monsters on Duty: Monsters, Inc.
	Monsters vs Aliens
	Onward
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 11: The Graphic Self of Public Intellectuals: Chinese Tiaoman as Digital Practices of Self-Representation on WeChat
	Introduction
	Theoretical Outline
	Methodology
	Data Analysis
	Xu Zhiyuan and Lion: A Cute and Relatable Self
	Uncle Lion on the Move: A Commercialized Self
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 12: Through Etched Glass: Representing Urban Place in Christina Fernandez’s Photographic Series Lavanderia
	Introduction
	Filaments of Life: Histories of the Communities of the Neighbourhoods
	Framing a Close Dialogue with Launderettes and the Communities Around Them, in Lavanderia
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 13: The Artwork in Geological Time
	Introduction
	Edward Burtynsky: From Manufactured Landscapes to Uncertain Timescapes
	Cedric Blaisbois’s Autocannibalism
	The Future Library
	Earth’s Black Box
	Onkalo: Into Eternity
	Conclusion
	References
Index