Pilote ‘hebdomadaire’ and the Teenager Bande Dessinée of the 1950s and 1960s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12280188 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wendy Michallat (University of Sheffield, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 277-292 |
| Publication date | 2007-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern & Contemporary France (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0963-9489 • E-ISSN: 1469-9869 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09639480701461034 |
| OpenAlex | W2167639952 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Launched in 1959, Pilote magazine was an original bande dessinée publication. Unlike most other magazines read predominantly by children, Pilote's unique collaboration with Radio Luxembourg facilitated its recruitment of ‘teenager’ readers captivated by the transistor craze that had rejuvenated radio by the end of the decade. The magazine also sought to endear itself to parents and the increasingly powerful educationalist lobby by adopting a sober pedagogical profile both in strips and accompanying textual content. Pilote thus sourced a new category of BD reader in the school-going teenager and, as the 1960s progressed, the volatile tastes and radicalisation of this category of reader necessitated a near ceaseless revision of the magazine's content to enable it to maintain market share. This article concerns itself with Pilote's struggle to align itself with dissident youth discourse of the 1950s and 1960s and analyses the socio-cultural impetus for thematic departures in bande dessinée it published
Art · Sociology · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |