| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 328 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Incompatible visual ontologies? : The problematic adaptation of drawn images / Pascal Lefévre -- Dick Tracy: in pursuit of a comic book aesthetic / Michael Cohen -- Translation creativity and alien econ(c)omics: from Hollywood blockbuster to Dark Horse comic book / Kerry Gough -- Will the real wolverine please stand up?: Marvel's mutation from monthlies to movies / Derek Johnson -- When Gen-X met the X-Men: retextualizing comic book film reception / Neil Rae and Jonathan Gray -- "Wham! Bam! The X-Men are here": the British broadsheet press and the X-Men films and comic / Mel Gibson -- Unbreakable and the limits of transgression / Aldo J. Regalado -- Teen trajectories in Spider-Man and Ghost World / Martin Flanagan -- It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's DVD!: Superman, Smallville, and the production (of) melodrama / Rayna Denison -- American Splendor: translating comic autobiography into drama-documentary / Craig Hight -- El Santo: The case of a Mexican multimedia hero / David Wilt -- From blockbuster to flop? the apparent failure (or possible transcendence) of Ralf König's queer comics aesthetic in Maybe ... maybe not and Killer condom / Paul M. Malone -- Old Malay heroes never die: the story of Hang Tuah in films and comics / Jan van der Putten and Timothy P. Barnard -- Enki Bilal's intermedial fantasies: from comic book Nikopol Trilogy to film Immortals (ad vitam) / Sophie Geoffroy-Menoux |
| Summary |
In Film and Comic Books contributors analyze the problems of adapting one medium to another; the translation of comics aesthetics into film; audience expectations, reception, and reaction to comic book-based films; and the adaptation of films into comics. A wide range of comic/film adaptations are explored, including superheroes (Spider-Man), comic strips (Dick Tracy), realist and autobiographical comics (American Splendor, Ghost World), and photo-montage comics (Mexico's El Santo). Essayists discuss films beginning with the 1978 Superman. That success led filmmakers to adapt a multitude of co |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-315) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Comic strip characters in motion pictures.
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ART -- Film & Video.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Comics & Graphic Novels.
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Comic strip characters in motion pictures
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Comic
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Film -- Comic.
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Comicfigur.
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Filmästhetik -- USA -- Geschichte 2001 ff.
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Comic -- Film.
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Verfilmung.
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Seriefigurer i filmen.
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Tecknade serier.
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Tecknade serier.
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Adaptation till film.
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Fiktiva personer på film.
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Film
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gordon, Ian, 1954- editor.
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Jancovich, Mark, editor.
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McAllister, Matthew P., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781604738094 |
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160473809X |
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