Reading Pictures, Telling StoriesMaster ClassIn-Person

How do we read pictures? What do images offer a story that words cannot, and how can text and drawings work together to create a cohesive narrative? In The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick uses long visual sequences to help move the story forward between passages of text, with the goal of creating a book that feels like a silent film. In this master class, come along on a dream journey to the City of Lights with the author and learn how this Caldecott-winning book was created, drawing inspiration from Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, Scott McLeod’s Understanding Comics, and Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire, as well as Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, and René Clair. Brian will also share behind-the-scenes stories from the making of Hugo, the Oscar-winning movie directed by Martin Scorsese that was based on his book, and discuss the art of adaptation.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, CREATIVE WRITING, VISUAL ART