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How the classic aesthetic of 1960s pulp comics influenced art, culture, and politics. As a form of visual art, comic books rely on a distinct and eye-catching aesthetic. This is especially true of the iconic comics, graphic novels, and illustrations of the 1960s and 1970s. The Look of the 1960s explores the sources of inspiration…
Winner, Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work 2025Finalist, Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize 2025 Drawing (in) the Feminine celebrates and examines the richness of contemporary women’s production in French and Francophone comics art and considers the history of representations made by both dominant and marginalized creators. Bridging historical and contemporary comics output, these essays…
A panoramic history of French science fiction literature from the 16th century to the end of the 20th century. COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES NEWS: “…Fills in a long-neglected bibliographic gap in the study of French-language literature… The authors have covered all the bases in enormous detail.” FOUNDATION: “A truly epic enterprise.” Brian Stableford. INTERZONE: “A…
Winner, Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work 2025Finalist, Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize 2025 Drawing (in) the Feminine celebrates and examines the richness of contemporary women’s production in French and Francophone comics art and considers the history of representations made by both dominant and marginalized creators. Bridging historical and contemporary comics output, these essays…
This edited volume sheds light on the unique capacity of the comics medium for redrawing histories and for exploring hidden, forbidden or imagined spaces. Studying a variety of texts from the French-speaking world, it considers how bandes dessinées (BD) and graphic novels can highlight environmental, gender, racial, religious, political and social questions. It also demonstrates…
On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power is the first book-length study in English about Black francophone cartoonists and their work. Michelle Bumatay decenters Eurocentric conceptions of francophone comic art and foregrounds the ubiquity of Western racial stereotypes encoded in mainstream French and Belgian bandes dessinées as well as the imbalance of power between the…
On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power is the first book-length study in English about Black francophone cartoonists and their work. Michelle Bumatay decenters Eurocentric conceptions of francophone comic art and foregrounds the ubiquity of Western racial stereotypes encoded in mainstream French and Belgian bandes dessinées as well as the imbalance of power between the…
A panoramic history of French fantasy, horror and supernatural fiction from the 12th century to the end of the 20th century. COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES NEWS: “…Fills in a long-neglected bibliographic gap in the study of French-language literature… The authors have covered all the bases in enormous detail.” FOUNDATION: “A truly epic enterprise.” Brian Stableford….
Postcolonialism and migration are major themes in contemporary French comics and have roots in the Algerian War (1954-62), anti-racist struggle, and mass migration to France. This volume studies comics from the formal dismantling of the French colonial empire in 1962 up to the present. French cartoonists of ethnic minority and immigrant heritage are a major…
WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to access old and often rare books from the BnF’s heritage…
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…
Santé, intimité, et identité dans la bande dessinée autobiographique de tradition franco-belge examines the ways different autobiographical comic books explore the theme of health, and its influence on identity construction. How do artists represent abstract feelings of pain? How do illnesses influence our sense of self? What is the role of others in our personal…
British, French and American traditions of speculative fiction developed separately for more than a hundred years, with only slight overlaps prior to 1926, and continued to develop thereafter in accordance with different foci of interest and narrative methods, until the importation of the American label of “science fiction” initiated a process of fusion that was…
Justine ou les Malheurs de la vertu est le premier ouvrage du marquis de Sade publié de son vivant, en 1791, un an après avoir été rendu à la liberté par la Révolution et l’abolition des lettres de cachet. C’est aussi la deuxième version de cette oeuvre emblématique, sans cesse récrite, qui a accompagné Sade…
Within the limits of the French-speaking world, this book pieces together a literary history of comics through their novels, from the 19th to 21th centuries. It provides an overview of a poorly catalogued and understudied corpus, while also affording first original insights into them
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the “public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no…
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