Introduction to Manga
UNIT TWO: READING MANGA
WEEK 5: Genre, Character, Icon
October 4
In the course pack:
—Rick ALTMAN, “A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Genre,” Cinema Journal 23: 3 (Spring, 1984): 6-18.
October 6
In the course pack:
—Robert Peterson, “The Acoustics of Manga,” in The Comics Studies Reader, 163-
—Giacarla Unser-Schulz, “Language as the Visual,” Image & Narrative 12: 3-4 (2011), 22 pp.
—MIYAMOTO Hirohito, ‘How Characters Stand Out,’ User Enhancement Mechademia 6 (2011), 10 pp.
Gag manga excerpts:
In the course pack:
—HASEGAWA Machiko, Sazae-san, pp. 10-19
—AKATSUKA Fujio, Tensai Bakabon, pp. 3-16
—AZUMA Kiyohiko, Azumanga Daioh, pp. 13-20
On line:
Read Volume 1, Chapter 1 of TORIYAMA Akira’s Dr. Slump online at MangaReader:
http://www.mangareader.net/dr-slump
Read Volume 1, Chapter 1 of USUI Yoshito’s Crayon Shin-chan, online at MangaFox:
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/crayon_shin_chan/
