Narrativa gráfica como híbrido entre cinema, fotografia e histórias em quadrinhos: estudo e experimentação

Abstract

The film La Jetée by french filmmaker Chris Marker is a pioneering work in the deconstruction of the cinematographic image by the use of photography. The narrative in this work consists on an amplification of the discontinuities of the cinema image by the hybridization of elements of diverse narrative languages, at times recalling the narrative process of comics by the construction of the sequentiality by use of image and narrative text. Inspired by Marker’s film, this project seeks to investigate other forms of hybridization between the three main media genres that La Jetée employs in its constitution (cinema, photography and comics), in a narrative approach. By reading authors such as Peter Burke and Arlindo Machado, this paper tries to understand, firstly, what characterizes hybridism, and how it operates in ever more expressive proportions as digital technologies gain mastery over the articulations of the graphic media. A conceptualizing process of the three genera studied here is necessary, so that, in a later stage, one can go to specific studies that verify points of approach of these in a hybrid character, highlighting the relevancy of the photo-romance here as the best-known hybrid product between cinema, photography and comics. The final stage of this work consists in the development of a narrative graphic product, following some specific points of the hybridism process as described by Burke and Machado in regard to photographic narratives, thus deepening the understanding of this process and the influence it infers on the way we perceive the original formats themselves.