
Invisible Presence
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It focuses on female characters, both primary and secondary, in the francophone comic or bande dessinee, as well as the work of female bande dessinee creators more generally. Until now these characters and creators have received relatively little scholarly attention; this new book is set to change this status quo.
Using feminist scholarship, especially from well-known film and literary theorists, the book asks what it means to draw women from within a phallocentric, male-dominated paradigm, as well as how the particular medium of bande dessinee, its form as well as its history, has shaped dominant representations of women.
This is the first book to study the representation of women in the French-language drawn strip. There are no other works with this specific focus, either on women in Franco-Belgian comics, or on the drawn representation of women by men.
This is a very useful addition to both general discussions of French-language comics, and to discussions of women's comics, which are focused on comics by women only.
As it is written in English, and due to the popularity of comic art in Britain and the United States, this book will primarily appeal to an Anglo-American market. However, the cultural and gender studies approach this text employs (theoretical frameworks still not widely seen in non-Anglophone studies of the bande dessinee) will ensure that the text is also of interest to a Franco-Belgian audience.
With a focus on an art-form which also inspires a lot of public (non-academic) enthusiasm, it will also appeal to fans of the bande dessinee (or wider comic art medium) who are interested in the representation of women in comic art, and to comics scholars on a broad scale.
Reviews / Votes
'[Invisible Presence] is a fundamental book for comics scholars, whether or not their research is focused on gender studies. Catriona MacLeod's detailed analysis of BD, and its male and female authors, is a very valuable source of information especially the vast and varied descriptive level of characters, vignettes, plots and actions. [...] I have to highlight the importance of the vindicating aspect of this volume, namely highlighting the void regarding female characters and female authors that persists in encyclopedic and historiographical volumes on BD; the difficulty of creating genealogy about 20th-century pioneering female authors, and the gaps in the creation of female characters other than by straight white women.' -- Maria Marquez Lopez, International Journal of Comic Art 'Catriona MacLeod's work does not rely on archival funds: that is not her perspective. However, in terms of a culturalist method of analysis nourishing a history of representations, Invisible Presence appears to be exemplary of what gender studies can bring to the study of comics.' -- Sylvain Lesage, Genre & HistoireMore details
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SECTION 1: PRIMARY WOMEN CHARACTERS
Chapter 1 - Becassine to Barbarella...But What Came in Between? An Introductory History of Female Primary Characters in the Francophone Bande Dessinee
Chapter 2 - Becassine: The First Lady of Bande Dessinee?
Chapter 3 - Barbarella: Study of a Sex-Symbol
Chapter 4 - Solving the Mystery of Adele Blanc-Sec
SECTION 2: SECONDARY WOMEN CHARACTERS
Preface: A Brief Consideration of the Minor
Chapter 5 - Beyond Bonemine: An Introductory History of Female Secondary Characters in the Francophone Bande Dessinee
Chapter 6 - A Study of Stereotypes: The Secondary Female Characters of Asterix
Chapter 7 - Secondary Women in Urban Realism: La Vie de ma mere
Chapter 8 - Black Secondary Women in the Works of Warnauts and Raives: The Eroticization of Difference
Chapter 9 - Secondary Women in the BD New Wave: The Female Figures of Le Combat ordinaire
SECTION 3: WOMEN CHARACTERS BY WOMEN CREATORS
Chapter 10 - The Women that Women Draw: An Introductory History of Female Characters Drawn by Women Artists in the Francophone Bande Dessinee
Chapter 11 - The Rise and Fall of Ah! Nana: France's first and only all-female illustre
Chapter 12 - Murdering the Male Gaze: Chantal Montellier's Odile et les crocodiles
Chapter 13 - Everyday extremes: Aurelia Aurita's Fraise et chocolat
Conclusion - Problem Solved?
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