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The Bande Dessinée in Context
Laurence Grove
| 320 pages, 40 ills, bibliog. ISBN 978-1-84545-588-0 Hb $95.00/£58.00 Not Yet Published (March 2010) Buy now and get 15% off listed price |
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.
Laurence Grove is Senior Lecturer and Head of French at the University of Glasgow. His previous affiliations include the University of Pittsburgh, the Newberry Library (Chicago), Middlebury College (Vermont) and the Université Rennes 2. He works on text/image phenomena from the sixteenth century to the present day and has authored a number of works on the subject. Laurence Grove is President of the IBDS, an international society for the study of the bande dessinée.
Series: Volume 14, Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections
Contents
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