{"product_id":"who-understands-comics-neil-cohn-9781350156036","title":"Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension","description":"Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their understanding for granted. But how transparent are they really, and how universally are they understood?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Combining recent advances from linguistics, cognitive science, and clinical psychology, this book argues that visual narratives involve greater complexity and require a lot more decoding than widely thought. Although increasingly used beyond the sphere of entertainment as materials in humanitarian, educational, and experimental contexts, Neil Cohn demonstrates that their universal comprehension cannot be assumed. Instead, understanding a visual language requires a fluency that is contingent on exposure and practice with a graphic system. Bringing together a rich but scattered literature on how people comprehend, and learn to comprehend, a sequence of images, this book coalesces research from a diverse range of fields into a broader interdisciplinary view of visual narrative to ask: \u003ci\u003eWho Understands Comics\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Neil Cohn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350156035\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350156036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Neil Cohn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43942728007935,"sku":"9781350156036","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_239e7539-31af-4d4a-bca4-466a8f4c239c.jpg?v=1681494005","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/who-understands-comics-neil-cohn-9781350156036","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}