Essays about: "graphic novel"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 25 essays containing the words graphic novel.

  1. 21. New Times, New Heroes : Ambiguity, Socio-Political Issues and Post Modernism in Frank Miller's Graphic Novel The Dark Knight Returns

    University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Jan Axelsson; [2013]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns is one of the first graphic novels to redraw the map for this kind of literature but perhaps first and foremost for the characteristics of superheroes and villains. It is a story which we have read before in the sense that Batman, the eternal crime fighter, chases his arch enemies Two Face and the Joker, but it is also a new story in which we meet an ambiguous and complex superhero. READ MORE

  3. 22. Two Film Adaptations of Larsson’s novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo : A Semiotic and Audience Reception Study

    University essay from Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Alexandra Genţiana Casprov; [2012]
    Keywords : The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; audience reception; gender roles; content representation; Män som hatar kvinnor;

    Abstract : Stieg Larsson has reached vast audiences with his popular, page-turning crime novels, the Millennium Series. The series tells a story not just for fictional purposes, but to draw attention to what people did not see about the society that Larsson lived in. READ MORE

  4. 23. A Hardware Architecture for Scale-space Extrema Detection

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT)

    Author : Hamza Ijaz; [2012]
    Keywords : SIFT; computer vision; scale invariance; scale-space extrema detection; FPGA; feature detection; gaussian smoothing; separable;

    Abstract : Vision based object recognition and localization have been studied widely in recent years. Often the initial step in such tasks is detection of interest points from a grey-level image. READ MORE

  5. 24. Identity construction of a Character

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för planering och mediedesign

    Author : Shiram Kshettri; [2012]
    Keywords : characters; characterization; graphic novel; arthrology; idenity;

    Abstract : Characters have long been studied as narratological element and how they function in relation to their plots. Characters are also studied on basis of their actions, trans-medial aspects, archetypes, knowledge, their interrelation to each other and they are also studied how the readers relate to them. READ MORE

  6. 25. The Abyss Gazes Also : A psychological analysis of Rorschach in Alan Moore’s Watchmen

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Vera Krapivner; [2011]
    Keywords : Watchmen;

    Abstract : Abstract There is a common assumption that graphic novels belong to the category of children’s literature, however that statement is no longer true. Indeed, the genre of the graphic novel has progressed and taken on a more serious approach, this due to largely one author, Alan Moore. READ MORE