The use of colour in the comic O despertar de Cthulhu: a multimodal analysis
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https://doi.org/10.51359/2175-294x.2023.259598Keywords:
multimodality, comics, colors, Grammar of Visual DesignAbstract
This article aims to analyse how the color is used to construct meanings in the comic O despertar de Cthulhu. To support the discussion, we start from multimodality (KRESS; VAN LEEUWEN, 2006; KRESS, 2010). The corpus consists of three stories of the comic. For the analysis, the categories of modality, from the interactive metafunction, and salience, from the compositional metafunction, were chosen. Based on these categories, we observe that the green, in the three stories, builds a representation of the supernatural/evil, which builds a sense of unity, in addition to the colors taking on the function of interacting with the reader and conducting the narrative.
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