Kevin McNeilly: McNeilly Watchmen Lecture (12/04/2015)

source: Arts One Open     2015年4月12日
In this lecture for Arts One (http://artsone.arts.ubc.ca) at the University of British Columbia, Kevin McNeilly begins by talking about the material nature of the text, its physicality and structure, distinguishing it from the linear and confining movement of film. The collaborative nature of graphic novels resists a single, authorial intention or perspective, as does the juxtaposition of the ordered, gridlike, rational aspects of the story and illustrations with the messy, chaotic, fluid-like blood and bodies that sprawl through and across the grid lines. McNeilly concludes by discussing the “fearful symmetry” of issue 5: why should symmetry be fearful? According to McNeilly it’s possibly because of the violence of trying to contain the lived body in an authoritarian, rigid, symmetrical order.
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