As Cialina has already noted, I found Elizabeth Rosen’s Moore study is incredibly helpful for those learning to critically interpret graphic novels. However I also felt that reading Moore and having one of Rosen’s recent primary sources at hand, made understanding her book easier. While there are other factors that could contribute to my level of understanding, I found chapter one much easier to get through than last week’s prologue.
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Weekly Response #5: Watchmen
This was my first time reading Watchmen so Elizabeth Rosen’s reading was extremely helpful. I noticed how intricate the graphic novel was while I was reading and the Rosen reading helped me pick out all the details that I missed. Many of what Rosen points out are details I questioned, but they never really made sense to me overall.
Weekly Response #4 – Elizabeth Rosen
I quite liked Elizabeth Rosen’s explanation for the modern day fascination with the apocalypse and their post-modern adaptations. She provides a convincing argument about how people turned to the apocalyptic myth during the second half of the 20th-century because of several historic events after World War II. Just from reading her arguments on how secular adaptations of the apocalypse have managed to still retain even the religious motifs, I could already come up with examples in film and literature.
The Need for an End
Reading sections from Frank Kermode‘s A Sense of an Ending and the introduction to Elizabeth K. Rosen’s Apocalyptic Transformation, I was introduced to a way of looking at the Apocalypse that up until this point had only occurred to me fleetingly, and never hit me head on. Continue reading
