{"id":379,"date":"2008-12-01T23:52:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T03:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/?p=379"},"modified":"2008-12-01T23:52:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T03:52:52","slug":"last-week-shooting-wars-and-house-of-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/archives\/379","title":{"rendered":"Last week:  Shooting Wars and House of Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The experience of reading the graphic novel <em>Shooting War<\/em> is not unlike reading <em>House of Leaves<\/em>.\u00a0 Though I feel like I should say reading <em>House of Leaves<\/em> is like reading a graphic novel like <em>Shooting War<\/em>.\u00a0 Flipping the book around and being confused about where to read next is part of the process of reading a graphic novel (according to my limited experience reading graphic novels).\u00a0 There are variations in confusion levels from graphic novel to graphic novel, but readers still expect the multimedia jumble of words and pictures.\u00a0 Readers of standard novels don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>So while reading <em>Shooting War<\/em> wasn&#8217;t a completely mind-blowing experience, it was still fun to enter into the world of the graphic novel.\u00a0 Being a generally apolitical person, I wasn&#8217;t paying so much attention to the politics as much as the plot lines and the stylistic techniques.\u00a0 I liked the graphic novel&#8217;s sense of play:\u00a0 with images, with text, with photographs, with screen shots, with predictions for the future.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Shooting War<\/em>, like <em>House of Leaves<\/em>, attempts to provide a representation of film through essentially still images, like text and drawings.\u00a0 To do this, the <em>Shooting War<\/em> has to find creative ways of slowing down and speeding up time.\u00a0 Whereas <em>House of Leaves<\/em> put single words on each page to slow things down, <em>Shooting Wars<\/em> might feature a single image on a two page spread.\u00a0 Both <em>House of Leaves <\/em>and <em>Shooting Wars<\/em> used timers on cameras to show time.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t actually finished the graphic novel yet (I&#8217;m halfway through), so I&#8217;m not sure how the authors plan to end this thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The experience of reading the graphic novel Shooting War is not unlike reading House of Leaves.\u00a0 Though I feel like I should say reading House of Leaves is like reading a graphic novel like Shooting War.\u00a0 Flipping the book around and being confused about where to read next is part of the process of reading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/archives\/379\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last week:  Shooting Wars and House of Leaves<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}