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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 ...
Idéologie et stratégies argumentatives dans les récits imprimés de grande consommation. XIXe – XXIe siècles': Balises liminaires
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2010)
La bande dessinée historique : une source possible pour l'historien. L'exemple de la collection Vécu (1985-2002)
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
The Glénat Editions were created in 1969 and have since become one of the greatest publishers of bandes dessinées in France. In the early 80s this publisher took advantage of a favourable context to create a series of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Le Portrait d'Edmond Baudoin: Réflexions sur l'efficacité d'une oeuvre à saisir la vie
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Bande dessinée et trifonctionnalité
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
The "théorie trifonctionnelle" of Georges Dumézil identified the foundations of the structures of groups of characters in ancient Indo-European literature. This article starts from an intuition by Joël Grisward, one of ...
Gotlib's Progress
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
This article traces the evolution of the French bande dessinée artist Marcel Gotlib (b. 1934). It draws upon strips from throughout his career, as well as upon an interview he gave me. As we shall see, Gotlib humorously ...