SEK’s visual rhetoric compendium (as of 3/12/2011)
By By request, below are the links to all of the visual rhetoric exegeses (a.k.a. McCloud or Bordwell-inspired “lecture notes”) I’ve produced in the past few years. I would say I’m surprised there aren’t more of them, but then I remember 1) how labor-intensive they are to compose and 2) the number of drafts I’ve deemed insufficient for public consumption that linger unfinished in assorted folders. So here goes:
Films:
- Batman Begins (classic horror) – Christopher Nolan
- Blow-Up (I) – Michelangelo Antonioni
- Blow-Up (II)- Michelangelo Antonioni
- The Dark Knight (I) – Christopher Nolan
- The Dark Knight (II) – Christopher Nolan
- Fight Club – David Fincher
- Ghost World – Terry Zwigof
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind – Hayao Miyazaki
- Superman Returns – Bryan Singer
- 30 Days of Night – David Slade
Television Shows:
- Avatar: The Last Airbender – “The Ember Island Players”
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer – “Hush”
- Doctor Who – “Time of Angels”
- Mad Men – “The Grown-Ups”
- Mad Men – “Shut the Door. Have a seat.”
- Mad Men (I) – “The Rejected”
- Mad Men (II) – “The Rejected”
- Mad Men (I) – “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword”
- Mad Men (II) – “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword”
- Mad Men (I) – “The Suitcase”
- Mad Men (II) – “The Suitcase”
- The Walking Dead – “Days Gone Bye”
Comics:
- American Born Chinese – Gene Luen Yang
- Blankets – Craig Thompson
- Fun Home – Alison Bechdel
- Ghost World – Daniel Clowes
- Kick-Ass (I) – Mark Millar
- Kick-Ass (II) – Mark Millar
- Planetary/Batman: Night on Earth – Warren Ellis
- 30 Days of Night – Steve Niles
- The Walking Dead (word-specific panels)
- The Walking Dead (picture-specific panels) – Robert Kirkman
- Watchmen (panel construction) (I) – Alan Moore
- Watchmen (panel construction) (II) – Alan Moore
- Watchmen (responsible film criticism) – Anthony Lane
- Watchmen (unfilmable film filmed) – Zak Snyder vs. Alan Moore
- Watchmen (students as murderers) – Alan Moore
- Watchmen (Dr. Manhattan as a figure of the reader) – Alan Moore