Abstract
This paper aims to search for the aesthetical ethics through understanding the multimodal text, Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret, and to suggest the vital vision for the survival of literature at the digital culture in the posthuman age. As an orphaned boy, Hugo finds the history of silent movie and recovers George Méliès’s identity as the silent movie producer. His investigation into the past turns out to find the newness and to open the vibrant future. As this hybrid graphic novel shows the changes from the written text to digital hypertext, it asserts that new media is constructed on the basis of old previous media, and we should find the solutions in the relationships with past and future. This novel resurrects vibrantly the multimodal form borrowed from the cinematic technique through the printed book. As the genres are mixed at the process of creating the new media, the complex combinations with image and text represent the microsome of media environment. Selznick’s vital multimodal form initiates an innovative storytelling, because it gives the opportunities to find the futuristic way in the excessive digital culture and to achieve the ethical vision through the participatory reading.
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