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Berghahn Books Comics in French The European Bande Dessinee in Context 2010 Edition by Laurence Grove
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 dessinee [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 :- FiguresForewordChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Definitions and Component PartsChapter 3. Formal SpecificityChapter 4. Pre-HistoryChapter 5. The Nineteenth CenturyChapter 6. The Twentieth CenturyChapter 7. Contemporary BDChapter 8. Pop Art or Business Park?Chapter 9. Consecration of the Ninth ArtChapter 10. Cultural Studies and BeyondChapter 11. ConclusionBibliographyIndex