Comics in French : : The European Bande Dessinée in Context / / Laurence Grove.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Grove, Laurence,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- FOREWORD -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: FRENCH STRIPPERS VIEWED FROM AFAR -- PART I WHAT IS A BANDE DESSINÉE? -- CHAPTER 2 DEFINITIONS AND COMPONENT PARTS: HOW A BD WORKS -- CHAPTER 3 FORMAL SPECIFICITY: NOVEL NOVEL OR NOUVELLE NOUVELLE VAGUE? -- CHAPTER 4 PRE-HISTORY: FROM BAYEUX’S TAPESTRY TO TÖPFFER’S TEACHINGS -- CHAPTER 5 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: PHOTOS, FUNNIES AND FILMS -- CHAPTER 6 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE RISE, FALL AND RISE OF THE BD -- CHAPTER 7 CONTEMPORARY BD: INNOVATORS, BEST-SELLERS AND PRIZE-WINNERS -- PART III THE CULTURAL PHENOMENON -- CHAPTER 8 POP ART OR BUSINESS PARK?: BARTHES-ERING FOR THE MARKET -- CHAPTER 9 CONSECRATION OF THE NINTH ART: MEANINGFUL ECOS OR CIRCUS CLONES? -- CHAPTER 10 CULTURAL STUDIES AND BEYOND: CASES IN POINT AND FURTHER READING -- CHAPTER 11 CONCLUSION: DICK TURPIN RIDES AGAIN -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX