Groensteen’s The System of Comics, entry directory

 

by Corry Shores

 

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Thierry Groensteen

 

The System of Comics

 

Chapter 1:

The Spatio-Topical System

 

1.0 

[On the Multiframe]

 

1.1

The Pregnancy of the Panel

 

1.2

The First Spatio-Topical Parameters

 

1.3

The Hyperframe and the Page

 

1.4

On the Importance of the Margin

 

1.5

The Site

 

1.6

The Composition and the Double Page

 

1.7

The Functions of the Frame

 

1.7.1

The Function of Closure

 

1.7.2

The Separative Function

 

1.7.3

The Rhythmic Function

 

 

Chapter 2:

Restrained Arthrology: The Sequence

 

2.0

[chapter introductory material]

 

2.1

Regarding the Threshold of Narrativity

 

2.2

A Plurivectorial Narration

 

2.3

The Planes of Meaning

 

2.4

To the Research of the Gutter

 

 

 

 

 

Thierry Groensteen. The System of Comics. Translated from French to English by Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Originally published as Systém de la bande desinée. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1999.

 

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