Comics in French

The European Bande Dessinée in Context
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-902-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 533 g

Reihe: Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections

Whereas in English-speaking countries comics are for children or adults ‘who should know better’, in France and Belgium the form is recognized as the ‘Ninth Art’ and follows in the path of poetry, architecture, painting and cinema. The bande dessinée [comic strip] has its own national institutions, regularly obtains front-page coverage and has received the accolades of statesmen from De Gaulle onwards. On the way to providing a comprehensive introduction to the most francophone of cultural phenomena, this book considers national specificity as relevant to an anglophone reader, whilst exploring related issues such as text/image expression, historical precedents and sociological implication. To do so it presents and analyses priceless manuscripts, a Franco- American rodent, Nazi propaganda, a museum-piece urinal, intellectual gay porn and a prehistoric warrior who's really Zinedine Zidane.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grove, Laurence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Andere Graphische Kunstformen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures

Foreword

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Definitions and Component Parts

Chapter 3. Formal Specificity

Chapter 4. Pre-History

Chapter 5. The Nineteenth Century

Chapter 6. The Twentieth Century

Chapter 7. Contemporary BD

Chapter 8. Pop Art or Business Park?

Chapter 9. Consecration of the Ninth Art

Chapter 10. Cultural Studies and Beyond

Chapter 11. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Grove, Laurence
Laurence Grove is Reader in French and Director of the Stirling Maxwell Centre for the Study of Text/Image Cultures at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on historical aspects of text/image forms, and in particular bande dessinée. He is President of the International Bande Dessinée Society. As well as serving on the consultative committees of a number of journals, he is general editor of Glasgow Emblem Studies, and co-editor of European Comic Art. Laurence Grove has authored (in full, jointly or as editor) nine books and approximately forty chapters or articles.