Invisible Presence

The Representation of Women in French-Language Comics

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvCatriona MacLeod,Catriona (University of London Institute in Paris) MacLeod,Catriona Macleod

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This book looks at the representation of female characters in French comics from their first appearance in 1905. Organised into three sections, the book looks at the representation of women as main characters created by men, as secondary characters created by men, and as characters created by women.It focuses on female characters, both primary and secondary, in the francophone comic or bande dessinée, as well as the work of female bande dessinée creators more generally. Until now these characters and creators have received relatively little scholarly attention; this new book is set to change this status quo.Using feminist scholarship, especially from well-known film and literary theorists, the book asks what it means to draw women from within a phallocentric, male-dominated paradigm, as well as how the particular medium of bande dessinée, its form as well as its history, has shaped dominant representations of women.This is the first book to study the representation of women in the French-language drawn strip. There are no other works with this specific focus, either on women in Franco-Belgian comics, or on the drawn representation of women by men.This is a very useful addition to both general discussions of French-language comics, and to discussions of women’s comics, which are focused on comics by women only.As it is written in English, and due to the popularity of comic art in Britain and the United States, this book will primarily appeal to an Anglo-American market. However, the cultural and gender studies approach this text employs (theoretical frameworks still not widely seen in non-Anglophone studies of the bande dessinée) will ensure that the text is also of interest to a Franco-Belgian audience.With a focus on an art-form which also inspires a lot of public (non-academic) enthusiasm, it will also appeal to fans of the bande dessinée (or wider comic art medium) who are interested in the representation of women in comic art, and to comics scholars on a broad scale.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-09-23
Mått170 x 244 x 17 mm
Vikt462 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagIntellect
ISBN9781789386813

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Introduction – Women ProblemsSECTION 1: PRIMARY WOMEN CHARACTERSChapter 1 – Bécassine to Barbarella…But What Came in Between? An Introductory History of Female Primary Characters in the Francophone Bande DessinéeChapter 2 – Bécassine: The First Lady of Bande Dessinée?Chapter 3 – Barbarella: Study of a Sex-SymbolChapter 4 – Solving the Mystery of Adèle Blanc-SecSECTION 2: SECONDARY WOMEN CHARACTERSPreface: A Brief Consideration of the MinorChapter 5 – Beyond Bonemine: An Introductory History of Female Secondary Characters in the Francophone Bande DessinéeChapter 6 – A Study of Stereotypes: The Secondary Female Characters of AstérixChapter 7 – Secondary Women in Urban Realism: La Vie de ma mèreChapter 8 – Black Secondary Women in the Works of Warnauts and Raives: The Eroticization of DifferenceChapter 9 – Secondary Women in the BD New Wave: The Female Figures of Le Combat ordinaireSECTION 3: WOMEN CHARACTERS BY WOMEN CREATORSChapter 10 – The Women that Women Draw: An Introductory History of Female Characters Drawn by Women Artists in the Francophone Bande DessinéeChapter 11 – The Rise and Fall of Ah! Nana: France’s first and only all-female illustréChapter 12 – Murdering the Male Gaze: Chantal Montellier’s Odile et les crocodilesChapter 13 – Everyday extremes: Aurélia Aurita’s Fraise et chocolatConclusion – Problem Solved?FiguresBibliography

'[Invisible Presence] is a fundamental book for comics scholars, whether or not their research is focused on gender studies. Catriona MacLeod’s detailed analysis of BD, and its male and female authors, is a very valuable source of information especially the vast and varied descriptive level of characters, vignettes, plots and actions. [...] I have to highlight the importance of the vindicating aspect of this volume, namely highlighting the void regarding female characters and female authors that persists in encyclopedic and historiographical volumes on BD; the difficulty of creating genealogy about 20th-century pioneering female authors, and the gaps in the creation of female characters other than by straight white women.'

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