https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index en-au 5 https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:23090 bande dessinée, the graphic novel that has such a strong tradition in France and Belgium, as well as film and television—and it becomes clear that crime narratives possess a powerful cultural voice, one that has the potential to go beyond their value as entertainment. Above all, they offer the perfect framework within which to explore conflict of all kinds. While the form, in its French embodiment, has evolved considerably from its American-inspired beginnings when Gallimard’s Série Noire was established by Marcel Duhamel in the aftermath of the Second World War, its central topoi of investigator versus criminal, of good versus evil, of past crime versus present justice, are inherently conflictual.]]> Wed 11 Apr 2018 16:53:23 AEST ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:26284 Tue 26 Feb 2019 13:16:48 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:26394 Bibliotèque de la Pléiade collection. Arguably, however, these are the complete fictional works of two authors: French writer Boris Vian and his black American pseudonymous creation, Vernon Sullivan. For critics like Edmund Smyth this must have represented long overdue recognition of the qualities of the latter's work.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:28:02 AEDT ]]>