This page presents a collection of the supplementary audio and visual media from the academic volume Manga Vision: Cultural and Communicative Perspectives, with the added benefit afford by online hosting to be able to present high-resolution, and colour images, and audio files of the music.
Visit the Manga Vision page to read full biographies and abstracts, or download the Open Access edition of the book to read the relevant chapters.
Australian manga artist Queenie Chan created the following single-page manga to preface each section of Manga Vision.
Click on the thumbnails below to enlarge the manga.
You can also view Queenie's artwork in high resolution by downloading the Open Access digital edition of the volume.
Manga © 2016 Queenie Chan
Introduction
Section 1
Appropriation and Expansion
Cultural Expression
Section 2
Communication and Engagement
Language Exchange
Conclusion
Chapter 1. Image to Object, Illustration to Costume: Cosplayers and Cosplay ‘Ways of Seeing’ Manga, written by Claire Langsford, explores the processes of (re)creation of manga cosplays, charting the cosplayer’s transformation of an illustration into a costume.
The figures from Claire's chapter are reproduced in colour below. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge the photographs.
Photographs © 2016 Claire Langsford.
Chapter 7. Finding Music in Manga: Exploring Yaoi through Contemporary Piano Composition, written by Paul Smith, draws upon the composition of a piece of piano music, Tides of Falling Leaves, which responds to material within the yaoi manga genre. The chapter details the way manga informed this creative process and how the music acts as a way of remediating the visual gestures unique to manga.
Click on the music score images to enlarge them. Click the play button to listen to each section of music.
Music score images and audio © 2016 Paul Smith.
Figure.1: Smith, Tides of Falling Leaves, b. 1-4
Figure.2: Smith, Tides of Falling Leaves, b. 13-14
Figure.3: Smith, Tides of Falling Leaves, b. 17
Figure.4: Smith, Tides of Falling Leaves, b. 22-25
Figure.5: Smith, Tides of Falling Leaves, b. 27-30
Figure.6: Smith, Tides of Falling Leaves, b. 76-79
Figure.7: Smith, Tides of Falling Leaves, b. 36-39
