Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Phenomena in Multimodal Communication (KLUA 2018)

Session: Multimodal communication in literary works

3 articles
Proceedings Article

Hegemony in Film: How Holocaust is Legitimized through Visual and Linguistic Texts?

Riskia Setiarini
Within the late of 1980s to the early 1990s, a myriad of films containing Holocaust were produced. One of which was Schindlers’ List. The depiction of eeriness of holocaust was wrapped in a scantily flawed film, subtly permeated into people’s minds. The filmmaker spreads their power, asking for people’s...
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“This is me with Augustine, February 21, 1943”: Importance of Photographs in Everything Is Illuminated

Md Abu Shahid Abdullah
Multimodal communication can simply be defined as communication through modes such as pictures, gestures, sign languages, and such. Photographs are relevant to literary studies because they too can narrate. Photographs can perform as unreliable narrators, drawing fuzzy borders between reality and imagination...
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The Transformation of Women Objectification in Multimodal Literary Adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel

Titien Diah Soelistyarini, Cindy Belinda Ramadhanty
Traditionally, literary analyses have tended to concentrate on the analysis of narrative texts presented in words. However, many works of contemporary literature appeal to readers not only through texts, but also images and even audios. Graphic novel is a contemporary literary work that enables texts...