Reading bande dessinée : critical approaches to french-language comic strip / Ann Miller.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1: The History of bande dessiné e; From the Nineteenth Century to the 1960s: bande dessiné e Becomes a Children's Medium, and then Starts to Grow Up; The 1970s: Expansion and Experimentation; The 1980s: Recuperation by the Mainstream; From the 1990s to the Twenty-First Century: The Return of the Independent Sector; Part 2: Analytical Frameworks; The Codes and Formal Resources of bande dessiné e; Narrative Theory and bande dessiné e; Bande dessiné e as Postmodernist Art Form.

The increasing popularity of bande dessinee, or French-language comic strip, means that it is being established on university syllabuses worldwide. Reading Bande Dessinee provides a thorough introduction to the medium and in-depth critical analysis with focus on contemporary examples of the art form, historical context, key artists, and themes such as gender, autobiography and postcolonial culture. Miller's groundbreaking book demonstrates exactly why bande dessinee is considered to be a visual narrative art form and encourages the reader to appreciate and understand it to the best of their ab.

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