Drawing France
Subtitle: French comics and the Republic
By: Joel E. Vessels
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781604734447
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Stirring up passions: politics, bande dessinée, and images in the nineteenth century and the late Third Republic; title: What your children are reading: bande dessinée, Catholics, and communists; title: Notre grand-papa Pétain: the national revolution and bande dessinée in Vichy; title: Vive la France! now who are we?: reconstruction, identity, and the 16 July law; title: The commission at work: saying "non" to microcephalic Hercules and determining what makes for a good French BD; title: Culture becomes policy: bande dessinée as monumental architecture.