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Baetens, Jan. "The Photo-Novel: Stereotype as Surprise." History of Photography 37. (2013): 137–52. Added by: joachim (8/24/13, 9:46 AM) |
Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2012.703407 BibTeX citation key: Baetens2013c Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Parody, Photo comics, Randformen des Comics, Stereotypes Creators: Baetens Collection: History of Photography |
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This article studies the often-despised genre of the photo-novel from a wide range of points of view: historical, cultural, narratological. The photo-novel appears as a genre whose first examples were seen both as an absolute novelty and as a terrible anachronism, and the entire history of the genre is interpreted in light of the attempt to cope with this difficulty. In this process, the twin notions of self-irony and parody play a crucial role, as is demonstrated by the early fictional dramatisation of the medium in Fellini’s The White Sheik.
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