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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Laurance Grove , Professor Martin Stannard , Professor Greg WalkerPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: New edition Volume: No. 32 Weight: 0.566kg ISBN: 9780754634881ISBN 10: 0754634884 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 28 November 2005 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents: Foreword; Introduction: Text/image forms; The emblem; The bande dessinée; Previous critical approaches. Theoretics: 'Nemo nescit picturam esse poëma tacens ...'; The ninth art of France. Production: Moveable woodcuts; Mickey, or Le Journal de Mickey?. Thematics: Capricious cupids; Where have all the Nazis gone?. Reception: From moveable mosaic...; ...To moving images. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.Reviews'By taking a fresh perspective on bande dessinee history, Grove casts new light on the father of comics Rodolphe Topffer, and asks uncomfortable questions about the French industry in the 1940s and 50s.' Roger Sabin, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK '... the author's refreshingly keen interest in text/image genres is evident throughout... he has read widely in the emblematic corpus of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His knowledge of French comics seem equally broad... ' Renaissance Quarterly 'One of the principal strengths of Laurence Grove's Text/Image Mosaics in French Culture is its author's refusal to accept unquestioningly any received ideas regarding the history of the comic... This is a highly readable study by an author who has confident mastery of the diverse, even heterogeneous range of material under consideration. In relation to the BD itself, Grove moves far beyond an often excessively restricted canon to give a clear sense of the genre's historical texture. At the same time, he focuses on under-explored key titles... The argument is consistently well illustrated...' Modern Language Review 'By taking a fresh perspective on bande dessinee history, Grove casts new light on the father of comics Rodolphe TApffer, and asks uncomfortable questions about the French industry in the 1940s and 50s.' Roger Sabin, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK '... the author's refreshingly keen interest in text/image genres is evident throughout... he has read widely in the emblematic corpus of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His knowledge of French comics seem equally broad... ' Renaissance Quarterly 'One of the principal strengths of Laurence Grove's Text/Image Mosaics in French Culture is its author's refusal to accept unquestioningly any received ideas regarding the history of the comic... This is a highly readable study by an author who has confident mastery of the diverse, even heterogeneous range of material under consideration. In relation to the BD itself, Grove moves far beyond an often excessively restricted canon to give a clear sense of the genre's historical texture. At the same time, he focuses on under-explored key titles... The argument is consistently well illustrated...' Modern Language Review Author InformationLaurence Grove is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow, UK, having previously studied and taught at the University of Pittsburgh, The Newberry Library and Middlebury College, Vermont, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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