The Francophone Bande Dessinée / / edited by Charles Forsdick, Laurence Grove, Libbie McQuillan.

Known as France's Ninth Art, the bande dessinée has a status far surpassing that of the equivalent English-language comic strip. This publication, one of the first predominantly in English on the subject, provides a thorough introduction to questions of BD history, context and bibliography. The...

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Superior document:Faux Titre ; 265
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2005.
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Faux Titre ; 265.
Physical Description:1 online resource (274 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Libbie McQUILLAN: The Francophone Bande Dessinée: An Introduction
  • Yves COTINAT [TANITOC]: Style, havanes & vanités
  • Charles FORSDICK: Exoticising the Domestique: Bécassine, Brittany and the Beauty of the Dead
  • Laurence GROVE: BD Theory Before the Term 'BD' Existed
  • Judi LOACH : De nouvelles formes naissent: Le Corbusier and the bande dessinée
  • Laurent MARIE: Le Grêlé 7/13: A (Communist) Children's Guide to the Resistance
  • Wendy MICHALLAT: Pilote: Pedagogy, Puberty and Parents
  • Matthew SCREECH: Jean Giraud / Moebius: Nouveau Réalisme and Science Fiction
  • Teresa BRIDGEMAN: Figuration and configuration: mapping imaginary worlds in BD
  • Ann MILLER: Narratives of Adolescence, Ethnicity and Masculinity in the Work of Baru
  • Dominique Le DUC: Femmes en Images et Images de Femmes: L'Héroïne de La Femme Piège d'Enki Bilal
  • Libbie MCQUILLAN: Les Bidochon assujettis académiques
  • Roger SABIN: Some Observations on BD in the US
  • Murray PRATT: 'The Dance of the Visible and the Invisible': AIDS and the Bande Dessinée
  • James STEEL: Let's party! Astérix and the World Cup (France 1998).