FREN226

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FREN226

Popular Culture and Bande Dessinee FREN226 SP

Next Offered in 9899 SP

A study of popular French culture through one of its most characteristic productions: la bande dessinee. We will read a number of classic bandes, one or more recent ones, and various theoretical analyses of the genre. We will study these bandes for what they can tell us about popular language, prejudices, ideologies, and aspirations, and pay particular attention to the nature and function of the alternative worlds they project.

MAJOR READINGS

Cauvin and Hardy, PIERRE TOMBAL: MORT AUX
DENTS
Goscinny and Udzero, LE TOUR DE GAULE D'ASTERIX; ASTERIX
CHEZ LES BELGES
Herge, TINTIN EN AMERIQUE; VOL 714 POUR SYDNEY
Leloup, YOKO TSUNO: LE FEU DE WOTAN
Morris and Goscinny, LUCKY LUKE: LA DILIGENCE
Antonelli, Gladys, "Asterix ou les avatars de Semiotix le
Gaulois"
Apostolides, Jean-Marie, "Tintin and the Family Romance";
"L'Unique et ses doubles: Tintin dans l'Oreille cassee"
Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe, "Asterix et les Romains: De la
psychanalyse a la sociologie"
Busi, Frederick, "Lucky Luke and Samuel Beckett"
Cassou-Yager, Helene, "Asterix: A Bouillon Cube of French
History, Gaullist Politics, and French Attitudes and
Prejudices towards Other Countries"
Chavez, Deborah, " Perpetuation of Gender Inequality: A
Content Analysis of Comic Strips"
Choisy, Bernard de, UZDERO-STORIX: L'AVENTURE D'UN
GALLOROMAIN
Laroche, Jacques, LA BD BRANCHEE DES ANNEES 80: TINTIN
DECADENT?
Martin, Paul, "L'Image de Cesar dans Asterix, ou, comment
deux Francais sur trois aujourd'hui voient Cesar"
Pinet, Christopher, "Asterix, Brassens, and Cabu: The ABC's
of Popular Culture"
Rey, Alain, LES SPECTRES DE LA BANDE: ESSAI SUR LA B.D.
Scobie, Alex, "Comics and Folk Literature"

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Two short papers on assigned topics; one long final paper.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

This half-credit course will meet MW during the first half of the semester. Most reading, all class discussion and all writing will be in French. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 0.50 Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA RLIT

Prerequisites: None

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

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