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oapen-20.500.12657-753502023-08-15T02:25:33Z The Belgian Photonovel, 1954-1985 Colangelo, Clarissa Photonovel;Magazine culture;Photography;Printing techniques;Gender studies;Visual narrative;Genre hybridization;Authorship;Readership;National culture;Bilingualism bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AK Industrial / commercial art & design::AKL Illustration & commercial art::AKLC Comic book & cartoon art The importance of the Belgian contribution to the history of the photonovel. The Belgian photonovel is the missing link in the amazing history of the photonovel, a comics-inspired form of visual narrative that combines elements from very different genres and media, ranging from literary melodrama, cinema, and of course comics. This monograph discloses the specific Belgian contribution to the genre, in close connection with the singularities of the Belgian women’s and general magazines where these photonovels appeared. If the photonovel is generally considered a typically French or Italian genre, this study demonstrates the importance of a different tradition, which appropriated the foreign models in a very original way. Belgian photonovels are distinct, not only because they tell other kinds of stories, but also because they interact with other types of magazines in ways that are very different from the mainstream forms of the genre in Italy and France. Finally, this lavishly illustrated study is also the first in scrutinizing the technical aspects of magazine printing techniques in the development of the photonovel. Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). 2023-08-14T10:08:11Z 2023-08-14T10:08:11Z 2023 book 9789462703704 9789461665126 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75350 eng Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789461665119.pdf Leuven University Press 10.11116/9789461665119 10.11116/9789461665119 91436d3b-fb9a-45e9-8a57-08708b92dcda 608fbdcb-bd0a-4d50-9a26-902224692f76 9789462703704 9789461665126 12 251 Leuven KU Leuven Katholieke Universiteit Leuven open access
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The importance of the Belgian contribution to the history of the photonovel.
The Belgian photonovel is the missing link in the amazing history of the photonovel, a comics-inspired form of visual narrative that combines elements from very different genres and media, ranging from literary melodrama, cinema, and of course comics. This monograph discloses the specific Belgian contribution to the genre, in close connection with the singularities of the Belgian women’s and general magazines where these photonovels appeared. If the photonovel is generally considered a typically French or Italian genre, this study demonstrates the importance of a different tradition, which appropriated the foreign models in a very original way. Belgian photonovels are distinct, not only because they tell other kinds of stories, but also because they interact with other types of magazines in ways that are very different from the mainstream forms of the genre in Italy and France. Finally, this lavishly illustrated study is also the first in scrutinizing the technical aspects of magazine printing techniques in the development of the photonovel.
Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
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