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Engines at Top Speed! Using the Adventures of a Comic Book Motorsports Hero as an Approach to Understanding Recent French History
Año:2017
Áreas de investigación
  • Educación física y deporte,
  • Historia
Datos
Descripción
Jean Graton created a series of comic books called Michel Vaillant, and its motorsports hero bore the same name. Michel Vaillant made his first appearance in 1957 in the weekly Tintin. Young French boys who loved adventure, sports and car racing greeted this publication with great enthusiasm. We studied the first series of Michel Vaillant, composed of 16 comic books produced in the 1960s. We have departed from traditional approaches and have based our method on the analysis of the sources of Graton?s inspiration. We link these sources to the comics? text bubbles, visual signs and iconic meanings of the drawings. Our analysis of the comics? iconography based on the establishment of a mass culture dedicated to the automobile brings to light the existence of an urge to go beyond the limits of tradition. Our research highlights that the success of Michel Vaillant is due, in the main, to the series? detailed knowledge of the automobile sports industry, and to the myths of speed, youth and progress that it promulgates ? myths in which its young male readers could see themselves reflected and which would also prepare them for the future.
Internacional
Si
JCR del ISI
No
Título de la revista
Sport in History
ISSN
1746-0263
Factor de impacto JCR
0,199
Información de impacto
Volumen
38
DOI
10.1080/17460263.2017.1358655
Número de revista
1
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1
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22
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Participantes
  • Autor: Sébastien Laffage-Cosnier Université Franche-Comté
  • Autor: Noemi Garcia Arjona UPM
  • Autor: Christian Vivier Université Franche Comté
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  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Estudios Sociales y Humanistas en Actividad Física y Deporte