Sorry to be so late! Here are revised questions, as you haven't seen the DVD this semester!!
To distinguish between the types of narrative enunciations, Baetons (2001) uses the term narrative and the term monstrative. He says that in filmic enunciation when the events of the story are presented to the public by means of a narrator is called narrative and when the events are performed by the characters themselves in a situation in which the story seems to narrate itself, without any narrator’s intervention, it called monstrative. For example, in documentary films we see scenes and listen to someone speaking without seeing him, in this case his performance is called narration, but in the case of movies when the story tell itself through the characters themselves, their speaking performance called “monstration”. In relation to “graphiation” and “graphiateure”, he uses these terms to distinguish between the different types of enunciations and enunciators in comics. He explains that comics are stories made by drawings, sometimes wordless but generally completed by words, so the enunciator is a narrator and a graphic artist together, therefore to make distenction between the different types of enunciations and enunciators he uses terms “graphiation” and “graphiateure”.
The article by Khordic (2004), was a really interesting article. I was intriqued by how she spoke of comics having a soundtrack. I have never really thought of comics as being verbal. When it comes to the comparison between Astrix and Tintin Khordic believes that Herge has not fully made use of the devices available to him to expand character developement "though he makes use of onomatopoeia, iconic symbols and other devices to create the effect of sound, Herge has not displayed... the full range of sounds which can be represented graphically" (Khordic, pg. 158).
My husband an avid Astrix fan agrees with this statement as he feels Astrix is more expressive. One area that Khordic mentioned that i really noticed was the use of speech bubbles and the tails. According to Khordic "certain ballons is jagged suggesting a tone of voice which is not steady and calm, but rather shocked or angry" (Khordic, pg. 163), Khordic goes on further to say "anger, for example, can be indicated by a tail shaped to resemble a bolt of lightning" (pg. 163).
However it is interesting to note that the Astrix series goes even further than just tone but also has the ability to differentiate between accents "a poorly drawn hieroglyphic, thus illustrating Obelix's poor accent" (Khordic, pg. 167).
In relation to question five i found 'pleasure' in both texts but for different reasons. Like we mentioned earlier Tintin appeals to kids and adults alike, however i think Spiegelman's work would go right over the head of kids. I loved the art work in 'In the Shadow of No Towers. Spielelman has done some really amazing things as he has played around with the medium of comic frames. Such as the example at the top of page two where the frames slowly turn and become the towers.
Also i think like Herge, Spiegelman loves to make political commentary, even if it was considered unpopular at the time "In America my reception was decidedly less enthusiastic" (Spiegelman, pg. 26).
I really enjoyed the unstated ideology that existed at the time of Sept. 11th. Spiegelman has captured well the experiences and feelings of many Americans. I loved the phrase 'waiting for the other shoe to drop'. Followed up by his big 'Jihad' shoe.
I agree with you Rachel that both Tintin and Spiegelman 2004 are enjoyable, however, after reading Spiegelman, A. (2004), I feel that Spiegelman 2004 In the Shadow of No Towers is more convincing and more polemic. Spiegelman didn’t make any research to produce this work, he was living inside the event, in other words, inside the sources, he relates his experience of the Twin Towers attack and the psychological effects to his work, as he witnessed the unforgettable sight of an airplane plowing into the World Trade Towers. As he says before Sep 11, 2001 he never thought about political work but this kind of work imposed itself after this experience and was certainly critical of the government.
