Image from March: Book Two pg. 8.
Discussion Board #4: March (Book Two)
Week Four is the final week of discussions in the class.
The book for this week, March: Book One, is the second of two books about the march in Selma (most recently memorialized in the film Selma). Before you read the book, read the short comic "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story," the comic that Lewis read as a young man and that inspired him to tell his story in graphic form.
For this week's discussion, I would like to explore the impact that the graphic form has on historical "public" events.
In the Discussion Board #4 forum:
The book for this week, March: Book One, is the second of two books about the march in Selma (most recently memorialized in the film Selma). Before you read the book, read the short comic "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story," the comic that Lewis read as a young man and that inspired him to tell his story in graphic form.
For this week's discussion, I would like to explore the impact that the graphic form has on historical "public" events.
In the Discussion Board #4 forum:
- Just as in other discussion boards, discuss how McCloud's concepts/theories are used in March: Book Two for effect (you can select a passage from each to discuss/demonstrate how the graphic pieces work).
- This book includes graphic representations of events that have photographic equivalents in real life (you can do Google image searches to see photographs that deal with these events). How did reading about the events of the civil rights movement and John Lewis' life in this work of graphic nonfiction change the way that you see these events? Select a few images (you should be able to paste in the URLs for the photos as links in your post) that are similar to panels in the books. How do the graphic representations change your perception about the photographic representations of similar events?