David Pinho Barros The clear line in comics and cinema

a transmedial approach

The "clear line", a term coined in 1977 by Dutch essayist and artist Joost Swarte, has become shorthand in the field of comics studies for the style originally developed by Hergé and the École de Bruxelles. It refers to certain storytelling strategies that generate a deceptively simple, lucid and hygienic narration: in Philippe Marion's words, it is a style "made out of light, fluidity and limpid clarity". By cataloguing and critically analysing clear line comics from historical and theoretical...

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Engels | PDF, 18 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022

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Pedro Moura Visualising small traumas

contemporary Portuguese comics at the intersection of everyday trauma

Portugal's vibrant comics scene originated as early as the 19th century, bringing forth brilliant individual artists, but has remained mostly unknown beyond Portugal's borders to this day. Now a new generation employs this medium to put into question hegemonic views on the economy, politics, and society. Following the experience of the financial crisis of the past decades and its impact on social policies, access to and rules of public discourse, and civil strife, comics have questioned what constitutes...

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Engels | 237 pagina's (PDF, 2,9 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022

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Mark McKinney Postcolonialism and migration in French comics

Postcolonialism and migration are major themes in contemporary French comics and have roots in the Algerian War (1954-62), antiracist struggle, and mass migration to France. This volume studies comics from the end of the formal dismantling of French colonial empire in 1962 up to the present. French cartoonists of ethnic-minority and immigrant heritage are a major focus, including Zeina Abirached (Lebanon), Yvan Alagbé (Benin), Baru (Italy), Enki Bilal (former Yugoslavia), Farid Boudjellal (Algeria...

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Engels | PDF, 13 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021

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Fabrice Leroy Sfar so far

identity, history, fantasy, and mimesis in Joann Sfar's graphic novels

Een studie naar de strips van de franse auteur Joann Sfar

Engels | 303 pagina's | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2014

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