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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959703403321

Autore

Vessels Joel E

Titolo

Drawing France : French comics and the Republic / / Joel E. Vessels

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, [Miss.], : University Press of Mississippi, c2010

ISBN

1-62103-278-7

1-282-57935-5

9786612579356

1-60473-445-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Disciplina

741.5/6944

Soggetti

Comic books, strips, etc - France - History and criticism

Comic books, strips, etc - Belgium - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Force to Beckon With; Chapter One. Stirring up Passions: Politics, Bande Dessinée, and Images in the Nineteenth Century and the Late Third Republic; Chapter Two. What Your Children Are Reading: Bande Dessinée, Catholics, and Communists; Chapter Three. Notre Grand-Papa Pétain: The National Revolution and Bande Dessinée in Vichy; Chapter Four. Vive la France! Now Who Are We?: Reconstruction, Identity, and the 16 July Law

Chapter Five. The Commission at Work: Saying "Non" to Microcephalic Hercules and Determining What Makes for a Good French BDChapter Six. Culture Becomes Policy: Bande Dessinée as Monumental Architecture; Epilogue: A Sous-Produit Littéraire No Longer; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Francophone countries comic strips - bande dessin�ee or 'BD' in French - have long been considered a major art form capable of addressing a host of contemporary issues. Among French-speaking intelligentsia, graphic narratives were deemed worthy of canonisation and critical study decades before the academy and the press in the US embraced comics. The place that BD holds today, however, belies the contentious political route the art form has travelled. This book



examines the trek of BD from being considered a fomenter of rebellion to an art capable of addressing social concerns in mainstream culture.