The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema

The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema
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Publisher : Leuven University Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 9789462703209
ISBN-13 : 9462703205
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Book Synopsis The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema by : David Pinho Barros

Download or read book The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema written by David Pinho Barros and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical and theoretical analysis of the “clear line” style in comics and cinema The “clear line”, a term coined in 1977 by Dutch essayist and artist Joost Swarte, has become shorthand in the field of comics studies for the style originally developed by Hergé and the École de Bruxelles. It refers to certain storytelling strategies that generate a deceptively simple, lucid, and hygienic narration: in Philippe Marion’s words, it is a style “made out of light, fluidity and limpid clarity”. By cataloguing and critically analysing clear line comics from historical and theoretical perspectives, this book offers a new outlook on the development of the style in the 20th and 21st centuries, especially focused on the context of the European bande dessinée. In addition, it pioneeringly expands the concept of “clear line” to other artistic domains by introducing and defending its transmedial use, which is particularly relevant for the understanding of the oeuvres of certain filmmakers of the 20th century working in the postwar period, such as Yasujirô Ozu in Japan, Jacques Tati in France and Frank Tashlin in the United States. The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema is therefore a key theoretical work for both bande dessinée enthusiasts and comics scholars, as well as a fundamental contribution to present-day film studies and transmedial narratology.


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