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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Gabilliet, Jean-Paul
Titre(s) : Of comics and men [Texte imprimé] : a cultural history of American comic books / Jean-Paul Gabilliet ; translated by Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen
Traduction de : Des comics et des hommes : histoire culturelle des comic books aux États-Unis
Publication : Jackson : University press of Mississippi, 2010
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XX-390 p.) ; 25 cm
Comprend : Seventy years' worth of images: From comics to comic books (1842-1936) ; The beginnings
of an industry : comics magazines (1936-1940) ; Comic books at war (1940-1945) ; Ever
more : the apogee and the fall (1945-1954) ; Decline and rebirth (1955-1962) ; The
age of innovation (1963-1969) ; Research and development by trial and error (1969-1979)
; The recovery of the 1980s (1980-1993) ; The end of a century and the beginning of
a new century (1993- ) ; Producers and consumers: Production ; The business of comic
books ; The creators ; The readers ; A difficult consecration: Calls for censorship
; Internal consecration ; External consecration ; Conclusion ; Appendix: Self-regulating
codes of the comic book industry.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-364) and index. - Translated from the French
"Originally published in France and long sought in English translation, Jean-Paul
Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books documents
the rise and development of the American comic book industry from the 1930s to the
present. The book intertwines aesthetic issues and critical biographies with the concerns
of production, distribution, and audience reception, making it one of the few interdisciplinary
studies of the art form. A thorough preface by translators and comics scholars Bart
Beaty and Nick Nguyen brings the book up to date. The book is organized into three
sections: a concise history of the evolution of the comic book form in America; an
overview of the distribution and consumption of American comic books, detailing specific
controversies such as the creation of the Comics Code in the mid-1950s; and the problematic
legitimization of the form that has occurred recently within the academy and in popular
discourse. Viewing comic books from a variety of theoretical lenses, Gabilliet shows
how seemingly disparate issues--creation, production, and reception--are in fact connected
in ways that are not necessarily true of other art forms. Analyzing examples from
a variety of genres, this book provides a thorough landmark overview of American comic
books that sheds new light on this versatile art form"--Back cover
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Beaty, Bart (1969-....). Traducteur
Nguyen, Nick (19..-.... ; archiviste). Traducteur
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Cultural history of American comic books
Sujet(s) : Bandes dessinées -- États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781604732672. - ISBN 1604732679 (rel.). - ISBN 9781617038556. - ISBN 1617038555
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45190654s
Notice n° :
FRBNF45190654
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