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Groensteen - The System of Comics + The Walking Dead: Days Gone By -…
Groensteen - The System of Comics + The Walking Dead: Days Gone By
TWD: Days Gone By
ATOMIC nuclear family--foregrounded on cover
It shows that they are capable of keeping secrets from one another, however the weight of their secrets is different
the narrative feels flat/ 1d; where does development and growth look like? If we start with empathy
the black and white vibes maybe adds to conservative drive
zombie (film) history: HIV/AIds from 1980s zombie flicks (contagious disease being passed down that decays the body and consciousness)? Zombies as mindless consumers (Dawn of the Dead 1978); Weren’t zombies originally xenophobic towards voodooism and Haitian people? (I walked with a Zombie; White Zombie); Train to Busan and ideas of social responsibility
there are questions about sociality, intimacy, and the ways we value the family
what's up with the idea of post-apocalyptic fiction and the social contract?
uh oh, Rick is a cop for law and order working to restore that AND restore the nuclear family??? It's deeply ironic and absurd cause hi, the social is over
how might we read resistant for alternate families/new modes of sociality?
enables a sense of "fair game" and the idea of choice, equality, and repercussions is shifted; but where does "normalcy" go when we blow up society? Chance to rewrite
in order to achieve normal, you have to enact scenes of violence in order to
make
normal again
how does this work for fantasies of white flight
Groensteen (very French)
comics are not just units and signs--there is a LANGUAGE with grammar here; it's a schema or a "system"
"a new semiology of comics" a system of working and making meaning
hey hey, we have to have a language for how they work
spatio-topical: we interpret the space of the page;
McCloud's de-emphasis of words to describe the functions of comics, but Groensteen loves him some heavy words
Complicating Groensteen: