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Input (English): Context: The history of comics has followed different paths in different cultures. Scholars have posited a pre-history as far back as the Lascaux cave paintings. By the mid-20th century, comics flourished particularly in the United States, western Europe (especially in France and Belgium), and Japan. The history of European comics is often traced to Rodolphe Töpffer's cartoon strips of the 1830s, and became popular following the success in the 1930s of strips and books such as "The Adventures of Tintin". American comics emerged as a mass medium in the early 20th century with the advent of newspaper comic strips; magazine-style comic books followed in the 1930s, in which the superhero genre became prominent after Superman appeared in 1938. Histories of Japanese comics and cartooning ("") propose origins as early as the 12th century. Modern comic strips emerged in Japan in the early 20th century, and the output of comics magazines and books rapidly expanded in the post-World War II era with the popularity of cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka. had a lowbrow reputation for much of its history, but towards the end of the 20th century began to find greater acceptance with the public and in academia., Jean Beaudin ( born 6 February 1939 ) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter . He has directed 20 films since 1969 . His film J.A. Martin Photographer , was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival , where Monique Mercure won the award for Best Actress . The film also won best Film , he won best Director , and Mercure won best Actress awards at the 1977 Canadian Film Awards . He was nominated ( but did not win ) for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction in 1986 , 1992 and 2003 for his films Le Matou , Being at Home with Claude and Le Collectionneur , respectively . Actress Domini Blythe ( 1947 -- 2010 ) was his partner of more than 20 years ., The 30th Cannes Film Festival was held on May 1327. The Palme d'Or went to the "Padre Padrone" by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. A new non-competitive section, 'Le Passé composé', is held at this festival only and focuses on compilations., A screenplay writer, screenwriter for short, scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media such as films, television programs, comics or video games are based., Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (born 8 November 1931 and 20 September 1929 respectively) are noted Italian film directors and screenwriters. They are brothers, who have always worked together, each directing alternate scenes., The Cannes Festival (French: Festival de Cannes), named until 2002 as the International Film Festival ("Festival international du film") and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world. Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès., Padre Padrone (also known as "Father and Master", 1977) is an Italian film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani. The Tavianis used both professional and non-professional actors from the Sardinian countryside., Subject: jean beaudin, Relation: languages_spoken_or_written, Options: (A) french (B) italian (C) japanese
Output (English): french