Jan Baetens: 6 books

This book provides both students and scholars with a critical and historical introduction to the graphic novel. Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey explore this exciting form of visual and literary communication, showing readers how to situate and analyse graphic novels since their rise to prominence half a...

Studies of adaptation from novels to film are common, but not as widely known are adaptations with the opposite relationship. In Novelization: From Film to Novel, Jan Baetens explores how transforming an original film or screenplay into a novel establishes a new genre and revises our understanding...

Né au sortir de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale en Italie, le roman-photo est devenu, avec une rapidité encore jamais vue, l'un des médias les plus populaires du XXe siècle. Souvent méprisé pour ses approches fleur bleue assumées, le roman-photo est en réalité un mode d'expression aux codes...

Correspondance is the name of a Belgian Surrealist magazine published in 1924–1925 by Paul Nougé, Camille Goemans, and Marcel Lecomte. It is considered as seminal as Breton’s «Surrealist Manifesto» (1924). The texts were tart, obscure responses to the arcane literary debates of the time, in...

Discarded by archivists and disregarded by scholars despite its cultural impact on post–World War II Europe, the film photonovel represents a unique crossroads. This hybrid medium presented popular films in a magazine format that joined film stills or set pictures with captions and dialogue balloons...

Le temps d’un soir, un scientifique et un auteur de littérature parlent de science. Le scientifique lance la discussion en évoquant les résultats d’une de ses recherches, une théorie ou une équation qui lui tient particulièrement à coeur. L’auteur invité s’approprie les concepts et...