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Popular Culture and Bande Dessinee
FREN226 SP
In this study of popular French culture, 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 say 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:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
.5
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA RLAN
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
Last Updated on MAR-24-2000
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