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Les Embarras de l'historien
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)
"Cultural history" is becoming more and more accepted, but in spite of this increasing recognition, the history of the present still faces specific methodological problems. Three approaches dominate. The history of material ...
La Chevauchée médiatique de Buffalo Bill
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
This article studies both the story and the legend of Buffalo Bill. It deals with three separate aspects. First, the transition from history (the real adventures of the hero) to literature (their narration in dime-novel ...
Transgressive Bodies in the Work of Julie Doucet, Fabrice Neaud and Jean-Christophe Menu: Towards a Theory of the 'AutobioBD'
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
This paper draws on the autobiographical work of bande dessinée artists Fabrice Neaud, Julie Doucet and Jean-Christophe Menu with the aim of investigating the potential of the medium to disturb the normative visual order ...
Redire, refigurer: Traces et cicatrices dans Hunors
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Throughout a career that covers a variety of narrative forms, Chantal Montellier's focus remains the same. Many of her albums bear the marks of personal suffering from social violence inflicted upon the poor, the weak and ...
The Translation's Visibility: David B.'s L'Ascension du Haut Mal in Italy
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Comics are published all over the world in different formats, which peculiarly characterize each national production. Translating a comic, then, means to cope with cultural aspects: how can a French album, that is a ...
Imperialism in Asterix
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
The Asterix books, having been written over a long period of time, have reflected a number of contemporary concerns which were relevant at the time of composition - some of which are still relevant today. One of these ...
Cinquante ans de couvertures de Sélection du Reader's Digest
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)
This article presents the rivalry between text and image within the Reader's Digest magazine and argues that the choice of cover illustrations - particularly in the French version of the magazine - was able to foster a ...
Le Genre cinématographique: Une Catégorie de l'interprétation
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2003)
Lecture sentimentale en abîme: De quelques couvertures de Nous Deux
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)
In the field of women's magazines, often illustrated "romance magazines" which offer almost exclusively love stories, Nous Deux, one among the most representative weeklies of this genre, sets itself apart from its competitors ...
Mickey, Le Journal de Mickey and the Birth of the Popular BD
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2001)
The unprecedented success of Paul Winckler's Journal de Mickey, launched in 1934, was to change the face of what we now see as the bande dessinée industry. This paper will suggest that the success was dependent not only ...