Alison Bechdel
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In this article, I look closely at Doris Lessing’s Under My Skin and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home to argue for the potential of empathetic responses from readers of these works and of autobiographical narratives generally. Much of the... more
My Bachelor’s Thesis investigates the position of women in today’s film industry. What has been discovered is that many directors constantly put women in the same scenes and situations, as if those are the only ones they can do. My goal... more
To put forth a definition about any kind of a film outside of its dramatic genre might strike one as both pedantic and unnecessary, particularly the notion of defining something so visually self-evident as a Black film. But the... more
Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006), an account of Bechdel's life with her father, is one of the most renowned contemporary autobiographical comics. Despite its relatively recent publication, it has already attracted... more
For a comic, the visual is obviously important, and no more so than in Alison Bechdel’s graphic autobiography Fun Home, because it is a graphic novel that uses visualisation to define identity The story is concerned with Bechdel’s father... more
The comic strip narrative format has recently been exploding into many new arenas. One emerging use of this format is the graphic memoir. Unlike text-only autobiographies, which usually focus on the actions and achievements of their... more
Em diálogo com as teorias feministas do cinema, dem especial
com as autoras Laura Mulvey e Ann Kaplan, discute-se a representação das
mulheres em filmes que concorrem ao Oscar.
com as autoras Laura Mulvey e Ann Kaplan, discute-se a representação das
mulheres em filmes que concorrem ao Oscar.
Ce test facile et amusant est à appliquer sans modération pour comprendre la place des femmes dans notre culture cinéma. Lorsque vous regardez un film, amusez-vous à vous poser ces questions. Une œuvre réussit le test si les trois... more
Dans le domaine de la bande dessinée, le rapport entre texte et image est conventionnellement en faveur de la seconde. L’image occupe la majeure partie du récit, et c’est par elle que l’essentiel des informations narratives sont portées ;... more
Resenha sobre o clássico "Fun Home", romance gráfico autobiográfico de Alison Bechdel.
This chapter examines the unprecedented cultural presence of lesbian comics and graphic narratives in the twenty-first century
Famed cartoonist Alison Bechdel is best known for her graphic memoir Funhome (2006), a richly-detailed look back at her relationship with her closeted father, in the wake of his suicide and her coming out as a lesbian. Are You My... more
This article reads Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home (2006) as a rewriting of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s assumption, which interprets In Search as a complex exercise in decoding signs, the article claims that Fun... more
We propose the concept of 'impromptu crowd science' to analyze the Bechdel-Wallace movement. We argue that the practice of using this test to evaluate movies generates a form of digitally distributed knowledge that reveals a challenging... more
Focus Features, The Kids Are All Right received much critical acclaim on the awards circuit after its release in July of 2010. Though there is much to celebrate about the film, the author of this study points out that The Kids Are All... more
This article examines the representation of a transnational archive of queer books in Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoirs Fun Home and Are You My Mother? for the insights it provides into the role of reading in making sense of the often... more
Pour évaluer la pertinence critique d'une notion comme celle de « confession graphique », appliquée aux bandes dessinées de l'artiste américaine Alison Bechdel, il convient sans doute d'envisager la ou les confession(s) non pas tout à... more
At the beginning of the 21st century, comics are a medium ‘on the rise’ in scholarship and in schools. This collection of essays, which emerged from a graduate student conference at TU Dortmund University, demonstrates their immense... more
Alison Bechdel is both a driver and beneficiary of the welcoming of comics into the mainstream. Indeed, the seemingly simple binary of outside/inside seems perpetually troubled throughout the career of this important comics artist, known... more
This "intro to philosophy" syllabus anchors philosophical questions about knowledge and being in the theme of comedy. Assignments include analysis of the film "The Diving Bell & the Butterfly," two episodes of "Mad Men," and a reflective... more
Volumes 43/44, Issues 4/1, December 2017 / March 2018, pp. 3-23.
Der Beitrag analysiert das Politische in Alison Bechdels Comics im Anschluss an Ann Cvetkovich als ein queeres Archiv, dessen affektives und gegendokumentarisches Potential durch die Medialität des Comics ermöglicht wird.
Je souhaite ici me concentrer sur la présence de l'archive en bande dessinée, plus précisément dans Fun Home d'Alison Bechdel (2006). Au sein de cette œuvre autobiographique, Bechdel fait en effet figurer de nombreux documents écrits,... more
I gave this paper at the PCAC conference in Calgary, Alberta, in 2014.
A theoretical exploration of the ‘architectural unconscious of the page’, namely, the structural similarities that obtain between the façades of residential buildings and the classic page layouts of American comics, Franco-Belgian bande... more
This paper analyses two impromptu crowd science movements, comparing the TVTropes wiki community with the Bechdel Wallace test movement. Impromptu crowd science contributors engage in methodical knowledge creation, in absence of academic... more
This is an undergraduate course in American literary studies. The term ‘autobiography’ was first used in 1809 and soon received the meaning it still has today: the biography of a person written by that person. A ‘memoir,’ in... more
The Stockton Postcolonial Studies Project is an ongoing digital research project that explores different theoretical arenas within postcolonial studies. “Postcolonial Studies” encapsulates a series of theories and methodologies that have... more