The Francophone Bande Dessinee

by Forsdick, Charles; Grove, Laurence; Mcquillan, Libbie

• ISBN13: 9789042017764
• ISBN10: 9042017767
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-30
• Publisher: Brill Rodopi

Summary

"Known as France's Ninth Art, the bande dessinee 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. This book supplies an introduction to the BD that will be of use to students and researchers at all levels. In addition, the format of the individual case studies provides in-depth analysis allowing the reader to grasp specific examples in terms both of their place vis-a-vis the evolution of the BD and, more generally, of the wider role they play within French and Francophone cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

The francophone bande dessinee : an introduction	p. 7
Style, havanes & vanites	p. 15
Exoticising the Domestique : Becassine, Brittany and the beauty of the dead	p. 23
BD theory before the term 'BD' existed	p. 39
De nouvelles formes naissent : Le Corbusier and the bande dessinee	p. 51
Le Grele 7/13 : a (communist) children's guide to the resistance	p. 73
Pilote : pedagogy, puberty and parents	p. 83
Jean Giraud/Moebius : Nouveau Realisme and science fiction	p. 97
Figuration and configuration : mapping imaginary worlds in BD	p. 115
Narratives of adolescence, ethnicity and masculinity in the work of Baru	p. 137
Femmes en images et images de femmes : L'heroine de La Femme Piege d'Enki Bilal	p. 149
Les Bidochon assujettis academiques	p. 159
Some observations on BD in the US	p. 175
'The dance of the visible and the invisible' : AIDS and the bande dessinee	p. 189
Let's party! : Asterix and the World Cup (France 1998)	p. 201
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