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
ISBN-13: 9781604734447
Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc. -- France -- History and criticism; Comic books, strips, etc. -- Belgium -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Stirring up passions: politics, bande dessinée, and; title: Images in the nineteenth century and the late third republic; title: What your children are reading: bande dessinée; title: 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; title: Identity, and the 16 July law; title: The commission at work: saying "non" to microcephalic; title: Hercules and determining what makes for a good French BD; title: Culture becomes policy: bande dessinée as monumental; title: Architecture.