Background check: cross-cultural differences in the spatial context of comic scenes.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive research points towards cultural differences in the way people perceive and express scenes. Whereas people from Western cultures focus more on focal objects, those from East Asia have been shown to focus on the surrounding context. This paper examines whether these cultural differences are expressed in complex multimodal media such as comics. We compared annotated panels across comics from six countries to examine how backgrounds convey contextual information of scenes in explicit or implicit ways. Compared to Western comics from the United States and Spain, East Asian comics from Japan and China expressed the context of scenes more implicitly. In addition, Nigerian comics moderately emulated American comics in background use, while Russian comics emulated Japanese manga, consist

SUBMITTER: Atilla F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10740350 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature