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Fotonovelas


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    • Fotonovela
    • Photo comic books
    • Photo novels
    • Photocomics
    • Photographic novels
    • Photonovelas
    • Photonovels
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    • Fotonovela
  • Sources

    • found: Van Winkle, A. Night zero. Volume one, c2009
    • found: Night zero home page, June 22, 2010(a photographic novel; photocomics) about page (a photo comic book, or fumetti)
    • found: Wikipedia, June 22, 2010:Fotonovela (A fotonovela also known as novela or novelita, is a small pamphlet akin to comic-book format, with photographs instead of illustrations, combined with small dialogue bubbles; fotonovelas) Fumetti (Fumetti is an Italian word which refers to all comics. In English, the term refers specifically to photonovels, a genre of comics illustrated with photographs rather than drawings. Italians call these fotoromanzi (photoromances). Photonovels are popular in Spain, South Africa, and Latin America, where they are called fotonovelas; photo comics; photocomics)
    • found: Art and architecture thesaurus, viewed May 19, 2023("Comic books or strips in which the pictures are photographs with balloons containing the speech or thoughts of the characters")
    • found: Shaw, L. Pop culture Latin America!, 2005:p. 174 ("though the early fotonovelas were sentimental, romantic, and stereotypical, over time they began to incorporate more modern plots and characters"; "The fotonovela underwent another change at the end of the 1970s ... these later works broke with the tradition of idealized romantic situations and instead dealt with the harshness of daily life, including issues such as social deprivation, prostitution, rape, money problems, and drug addiction. The characters were frequently poor")
    • found: Ritter, L. Multicultural health, 2010:p. 176 ("Because of its popularity and flexibility, the fotonovela has been used in increasingly fresh ways by visual artists and writers to address important social issues within the Chicano/Latino community"; "fotonovelas are becoming more commonly used in public health as a way of delivering health information in a more creative manner")
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    • 1986-02-11: new
    • 2023-10-18: revised
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