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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Foreword
1. Introduction: French Strippers Viewed from Afar
Part I: What is a Bande Dessinee?
2. Definitions and Component Parts: How a BD Works
‘Bande Dessinée’ or ‘Bande + Dessinée’?
So, What is a BD?
Images
Written Text
Mixture of Images and Written Text
Text
Narrative
French language
Definition of Terms
Overall Production
Scénario/Découpage/Storyboard
Album/Journal
One-shot/Série
The Individual Page
Planche
Bande
Encrage/Bleu/Colorisation
More Specifically
Case
Cadre/Cadrage/Filet
Phylactère/Bulle/Ballon
Lettrage/Récitatif
From Literary Criticism
Onomatopée
Style Indirect Libre
Voix de L'auteur/Voix du Narrateur
Intertextuality
From Cinema
Plan Général/Panorama
Plan Moyen
Plan Américain
Plan Rapproché
Gros Plan
Plongée
Contre-plongée
Travelling
Astérix Gladiateur: How a BD Works
3. Formal Specificity: Novel Novel or Nouvelle Nouvelle Vague?
Novel Novel?
Nouvelle Nouvelle Vague?
Part II: The Chronological Approach
4. Pre-History: From Bayeux's Tapestry to Töpffer's Teachings
The Notion of a Pre-History to BD
Early Illuminations
Printed Picture Books
The Age of (Textual) Reason
Les Images D'Épinal
Rodolphe Töpffer: ‘L'Inventeur de la BD’?
5. The Nineteenth Century: Photos, Funnies and Films
Töpffer Again
Photos
Funnies
Films
The New Era of the Image
6. The Twentieth Century: The Rise, Fall and Rise of the BD
A Rollercoaster Century
Rise
Histoires en Images
On a Les Bulles?
Tintin Starts his Adventures
Belgicité?
Enfin Mickey Vint…
Fall
Nazi Supremacy
La Loi du 16 Juillet 1949
Postwar to 1959
Rise
A New Direction with a New Pilote
Tu Bandes?
Fall within a Rise
Consecration of the Ninth Art
A Century of Events
7. Contemporary BD: Innovators, Best-sellers and Prize-winners
Another Method of Approach
Twenty-First-Century Innovators
Tranches de Vie
Politically Aware
Graphic Classics
Popular Experiments
L'Association and Associates
Best-Sellers
Titeuf
XIII
Astérix the BD Giant
Grand Prix d'Angoulême
2009: Winshluss, Pinocchio (Les Requins Marteaux)
2009: Blutch
2008: Shaun Tan, Là Où vont nos Pères (Dargaud)
2008: Philippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian
2007: Shigeru Mizuki, NonNonBâ (Cornélius)
2007: José Muñoz
2006: Gipi, Notes Pour une Histoire de Guerre (Actes Sud)
2006: Lewis Trondheim
2005: Marjane Satrapi, Poulet aux Prunes (L'Association)
2005: Georges Wolinski
2004: Manu Larcenet, Le Combat Ordinaire (Dargaud)
2004: Zep
2003: Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan (Delcourt)
2003: Régis Loisel
2002: Christophe Blain, Isaac le Pirate: Les Amériques (Dargaud)
2002: François Schuiten
2001: René Pétillon, L'Enquête Corse (Albin Michel)
2001: Martin Veyron
Where Now?
Part III: The Cultural Phenomenon
8. Pop Art or Business Park?: Barthes-ering for the Market
Bande Dessinée and Popular Culture
Popular Culture as Cultural Artefact
Popular Culture as an Object of Intellectualisation
The Alternative: BD as Business
9. Consecration of the Ninth Art: Meaningful Ecos or Circus Clones
The History of the History
The Time-line Method
Pre-1920s
1920s to 1940s
1950s
1962–1975
Consecrating the Consecrated
By Contrast: BD Criticism in English
Where Now?
10. Cultural Studies and Beyond: Cases in Point and Further Reading
Theory into Practice
The Specificity of English?
Cultural Studies
Case Study: Bond Dessinée
James Bond Comics
Spirit of 007
Icons of the Text/Image Age
Resistance and Collaboration
Underground or Métropolitain?
BD and Banlieue
Sex and Sexuality
Ils Sont Fous Ces Caledoniens
3D BD
Beyond…
Case Study: Formal Experimentation
Le Cahier Bleu: Experiments with Narratology
La 2,333e Dimension: Self-reflexive Experimentation
International Aesthetics
Psychoanalysis
Signs and Symbols
Learning from BD
Further Further Reading
11. Conclusion: Dick Turpin Rides Again
Bibliography
Index
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