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Platten, David. "Windows of Cognition: Contemporary French Comics and the Cultural Middlebrow." Belphégor 15. 2 2017. Accessed 15May. 2019. <http://journals.openedition.org/belphegor/1005>. Added by: joachim (5/15/19, 5:42 PM) |
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| Resource type: Web Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.4000/belphegor.1005 BibTeX citation key: Platten2017 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "L’Arabe du futur", "Le chat du rabbin", "Persepolis", France, Iran, Popular culture, Satrapi. Marjane, Sattouf. Riad, Sfar. Joann Creators: Platten Collection: Belphégor |
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| Attachments | URLs http://journals.op ... org/belphegor/1005 |
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This chapter deliberates the merits of whether French-language comics may be construed as a salient example of a new cultural middlebrow. It argues that the comics artist introduces new ways of seeing shared worlds, stressing the referential aspects typical of the literary middlebrow, but not of the high-brow, which is characterised by a high degree of self-consciousness. Moreover, where these special cognitive windows open out onto social and political realities that trouble a middlebrow audience, they can offer alternative, sometimes challenging perspectives. These claims are tested through analyses of Marjane Satrapi’s contemporary classic Persepolis and Riad Sattouf’s on-going saga L’Arabe du futur. The chapter concludes with a brief digression into the colourful, metaphysical universe of Joann Sfar’s Le Chat du rabbin.
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