Format:
333 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
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23 cm
ISBN:
9789058679888
Series Statement:
Studies in european comics and graphic novels 1
Content:
"This book presents a collection of key theoretical texts on comics, spanning a period from the 1960s to the 2010s, written in French and never before translated into English. The publication brings a distinctive set of authors together uniting theoretical scholars, artists, journalists, and comics critics. Readers will gain access to important debates that have taken place among major French-language comics scholars, including Thierry Groensteen, Benoît Peeters, Jan Baetens, and Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle, over the past fifty years. The collection covers a broad range of approaches to the medium, including historical, formal, sociological, philosophical, and psychoanalytic. A general introduction provides an overall context, and, in addition, each of the five thematic sections is prefaced by a brief summary of each text and an explanation of how they have influenced later work. The translations are faithful to the originals while reading clearly in English, and, where necessary, cultural references are clarified."--Provided by publisher
Note:
The French comics theory reader: general introduction -- Section one: origins and definitions. Introduction -- The origin of the term 'bande dessinée' (1988) / Jean-Claude Glasser -- The origins of stories in images (1969) / Gérard Blanchard -- Dictionary definition (1971) / Francis Lacassin -- Graphic hyrbidization, the crucible of comics (2013) / Thierry Smolderen -- The elusive specificity (1986) / Thierry Groensteen -- There is no specificity at the number you have dialed (1986) / Sylvain Bouyer -- Comics and specificity: concerning an article written in 1986 (2012) / Sylvain Bouyer -- Definitions (2012) / Thierry Groensteen -- Section two: formal approaches to the study of comics. Introduction -- From linear to tabular (1976) / Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle -- The magnifying glass or the sponge (1986) / Pierre Sterckx -- Modern pictorial enunciative strategies (1988) / Jacques Samson -- Narration as supplement: an archaeology of the infra-narrative foundations of comics (1988) / Thierry Groensteen -- Texts and images (1993) / Jan Baetens and Pascal Lefèvre -- The work and its surround (1993) / Jan Baetens and Pascal Lefèvre -- Section three: French comics criticism. Introduction -- Modern realism (1983) / Bruno Lecigne and Jean-Pierre Tamine -- Jack Kirby's apocalypses (2009) / Harry Morgan and Manuel Hirtz -- Image readings (2009) / Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle -- Laughter: the absent-minded jewels or the bold prima donna (1970) / Michel Serres -- Reading Tintin: the stolen jewels (1984/2007) / Benoît Peeters -- Bianca Castafiore or The woman and her jewel (1985) / Serge Tisseron -- Section four: reading the French comics industry. Introduction -- The constitution of the comics field (1975) / Luc Boltanski -- The new disorder (2002) / Pascal Ory -- In search of the lost serial (2009) / Erwin Dejasse and Phillipe Capart -- On indigence (1986) / Barthélémy Schwartz -- Stay off my patch (2005) / Jean-Christophe Menu
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
Keywords:
Frankreich
;
Comic
;
Französisch
;
Comic
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Beaty, Bart 1969-
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