Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey

The Graphic Novel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This introduction provides a historical overview of the graphic novel, with a strong focus on its international significance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 196mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 756g
• ISBN-13: 9781107025233
• ISBN-10: 1107025230
• Artikelnr.: 41562869

Autorenporträt

Jan Baetens is Professor of Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Leuven. His main research areas are modern French poetry and word and image studies, mainly in so-called minor genres such as comics, photonovels and novelisations. He is the author of some fifteen volumes (among which is a classic volume on Tintin, 2006) and has published widely in journals such as Critical Inquiry, PMLA, History of Photography, Poetics Today, Yale French Studies, Poétique, English Language Notes, Romanic Review, and French Forum. In 2007-8 Baetens was the holder of a Belgian Francqui Chair, and the same year he was awarded the triennial prize of poetry of Francophone Belgium.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to the graphic novel: a special type of comic book
2. Adult comics before the graphic novel: from moral panic to pop art sensationalism, 1945-67
3. Underground comix and mainstream evolutions, 1968-80
4. 'Not just for kids': clever comics and the new graphic novels
5. Understanding panel and page layouts
6. Drawing and style, word and image
7. The graphic novel as a specific form of storytelling
8. The graphic novel and literary fiction: exchanges, interplays and fusions
9. Nostalgia and the return of history.