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ICS 2103 – Understanding Comics and Manga
Final Take home Exam
You will be required to answer one question from Section I and 4 questions from Section II. There is choice within each section. Your entire exam submission should not exceed 10 pages. Any appendices are extra beyond the maximum page limit. Although you are expected to rely primarily on course material, you should include a bibliography that lists any sources used in composing your answer.
Section I: You must answer ONE of these questions. Each of these options involves conducting an analysis of your own and using your data in the answer. Your answer should be about 4-6 pages and is worth up to 20 marks. You should submit any data sheets as appendices to show your work.
1.1) Panel transitions analysis: Consider and discuss the 6 types of closure facilitated by panel transitions which McCloud outlined in Understanding Comics. Tally up and calculate the proportion of the types of panel transitions (a data sheet is posted on Desire2Learn) used in 1 sample of manga and 1 sample from a comic book. Compare the results for your samples and compare with McCloud’s results discussed on pg 75-81 of Understanding Comics.
1.2) Genre analysis: Consider the role of genre in understanding comics and manga. Compare comics from two different genres and discuss your results. You might find the reading by Coogan (posted on the course readings page on Desire2learn) useful in your answer. The genre analysis handout, which you might find helpful, is posted to the Desire2Learn exam materials page.
1.3) Manga analysis: Consider the differences between manga that are directed at different audiences. Compare a sample of shōjo and a sample of shonen manga and discuss your results. You might consider the gender, genre or stylistic distinctions. NOTE: There are a number samples posted on the exam materials page on Desire2Learn.
1.4 Gender analysis: Consider the ways the gender is represented in manga and comics. Compare a sample of shōjo manga, a sample of shonen manga and a comic and discuss your results. Do manga or comics seem more gendered? In what ways?
NOTES:
1) Your samples of manga and comics should comprise at least 10 pages (ideally a whole manga episode or a full single-issue comic book, but that may be too much material to cover for this exam).
2) There are a number of samples and links to samples posted on the Desire2learn exam materials module page.
http://aibq.com/catalog_1.php
http://comicbookplus.com/
http://dailyfreeware.net/cdisplay-comic-reader-18/
http://www.comicsresearch.org/CAC/cite.html
http://mangafox.me/directory/
http://www.jmanga.com/list/series/recent
http://www.vizmanga.com/
http://www.sigikki.com/previews/index.shtml
3) You should include a bibliography that lists any outside sources used in composing your answers.
Section II: Answer any FOUR (4) of these questions. In this section there are a number of questions which focus on the topics we have covered this term. You should rely upon your text, assigned readings, lecture notes and any relevant video material to compose your answer. The expectation is that you will answer using course material for this final exam. Your answers for this section should be comprised of about 2-4 pages. Each question can be answered in about a page. Your answer for this section is worth up to 20 marks = 5 marks per question.
2.1) Briefly outline one (1) consequence of distributing manga and comics in mass market bookstores?
2.2) How are films and anime different from comics and manga? Be specific and use examples to illustrate your answer.
2.3) Discuss some of the ways that gender structures the manga industry, how does that compare with North American comics?
2.4) Using the video excerpts that we watched in class, draw some comparisons between fans of manga/anime in the US and otaku in Japan
2.5) Discuss one (1) of the challenges to having more digital distribution of comics.
2.6) How have women been represented in superhero comics? Has this changed in more recent comics?
2.7) Discuss one (1) of the criticisms that readers have made of official manga translations?
2.8) Compare the distribution systems for manga in Japan and comics in North America.
2.9) Briefly outline one (1) of the significant changes in the translated manga industry that resulted from the conflict over scanlation aggregators.
2.10) Describe any one (1) of the fan practices outlined by Henry Jenkins and illustrate it with an example of activities related to manga otaku or comic book fans.
2.11) How does closure help with the depiction of non-visual information such as sound in comics? Use examples to illustrate your answer.
2.12) Discuss the origins of the genre of boys’ love manga? What is their target readership?
For Section 1 is 5 pages and section 2 is 3 pages
ICS 2103 – D.I.Y. Genre analysis
Ask yourselves these questions in looking at your sample text.
General : title: circle one: comic OR manga
1. What genre would you assign this text to?
2. What do you understand to be the conventions of this genre?
3. What subject matter and basic themes is the text concerned with?
4. What expectations do you have about texts in this genre? Does this text deliver on those?
5. Which conventions of the genre do you recognize in the text?
6. What ideological assumptions and values seem to be embedded in the text?
Mode of address
1. What assumptions seem to be made about reader characteristics like class, age, gender and ethnicity?
2. To what extent do you resemble the ‘ideal reader’ that the text seeks to position you as? How does that impact your reading of this text?
Broader and comparative matters
1. If a genre narrates cultural conflict/tensions as suggested by Peter Coogan, what cultural conflict might this sample depict or be attempting to resolve?
2. How do the comic and manga compare and what might account for the points of comparison?
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