Narrativa ilustrada y narrativa cinematográfica

Abstract

Usually it has been insisted on that the illustrations of an album affect the artistic learning of their readers. But, why it is understood this artistic learning only like an initiation to the predominantly pictorial language? What artistic scopes come together in the narrative of the album? In the authors opinion of the present article, the narrative structure of the informed album or free-album can cause, at least, the acquisition of three competitions in the artistic interpretation. One of them, the most obvious one and with the older roots, would strengthen the narrative structures of any oral or textual story, those that originated the studies of V. Propp and A.
Greimas in the structuralism field. Other one, not less evident, but that according to the experts is the greater contribution of infantile literature, strengthens the learning interpretation of the semiologic resources of the visual language. And the third, opens more and more interesting ways for the understanding and the learning of the cinematographic narrative structures. Taking as paradigm the cinematographic adaptacion from the Shrek! album of Y. Steig (1990), the parallel narrative structures of the book and of the first film of the series become evident. This small analytical study would allow us to open new doors to the investigation of the album as a cultural object totally able to allow the acquisition of ample and updated cognitive competitions in the communication society.