Un-Defining "Comics": Separating the cultural from the structural in ‘comics’
Un-Defining "Comics": Separating the cultural from the structural in ‘comics’
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未定义“漫画”：将“漫画”的文化与结构分开
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2005
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Neil Cohn
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Neil Cohn
也许漫画学术中最令人困惑和广泛争论的一点在于它的核心，即“漫画”本身的定义。关于这个问题的大多数争论都集中在几个不同特征的作用上：图像、文本、顺序性以及它们相互作用的方式。然而，这场讨论的许多其他方面只得到了短暂的注意，例如生产漫画的行业，拥抱它们的社区，它们所代表的内容以及它们出现的途径。这些问题所造成的复杂的分类网络使得定义“漫画”一词变得困难，并持续引起争论。这篇文章对“漫画”所包含的定义特征进行了剖析，旨在了解这些特征和“漫画”一词在文化和结构上的真正含义。
Perhaps the most befuddling and widely debated point in comics scholarship lies at its very core, namely, the definition of “comics” itself. Most arguments on this issue focus on the roles of a few distinct features: images, text, sequentiality, and the ways in which they interact. However, there are many other aspects of this discussion that receive only passing notice, such as the industry that produces comics, the community that embraces them, the content which they represent, and the avenues in which they appear. The complex web of categorization that these issues create makes it no wonder that defining the very term “comics” becomes difficult and is persistently wrought with debate. This piece offers a dissection of the defining features that “comics” encompass, with aims to understand both what those features and the term “comics” really mean across both cultural and structural bounds.