Film and Comic Books.
Title:
Film and Comic Books.
Author:
Gordon, Ian.
ISBN:
9781604738094
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (255 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- INCOMPATIBLE VISUAL ONTOLOGIES?: THE PROBLEMATIC ADAPTATION OF DRAWN IMAGES -- DICK TRACY: IN PURSUIT OF A COMIC BOOK AESTHETIC -- TRANSLATION CREATIVITY AND ALIEN ECON(C)OMICS: FROM HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER TO DARK HORSE COMIC BOOK -- WILL THE REAL WOLVERINE PLEASE STAND UP?: MARVEL'S MUTATION FROM MONTHLIES TO MOVIES -- WHEN GEN-X MET THE X-MEN: RETEXTUALIZING COMIC BOOK FILM RECEPTION -- "WHAM! BAM! THE X-MEN ARE HERE": THE BRITISH BROADSHEET PRESS AND THE X-MEN FILMS AND COMIC -- UNBREAKABLE AND THE LIMITS OF TRANSGRESSION -- TEEN TRAJECTORIES IN SPIDER-MAN AND GHOST WORLD -- IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! NO, IT'S DVD!: SUPERMAN, SMALLVILLE, AND THE PRODUCTION (OF) MELODRAMA -- AMERICAN SPLENDOR: TRANSLATING COMIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY INTO DRAMA-DOCUMENTARY -- EL SANTO: THE CASE OF A MEXICAN MULTIMEDIA HERO -- FROM BLOCKBUSTER TO FLOP?: THE APPARENT FAILURE (OR POSSIBLE TRANSCENDENCE) OF RALF KÖNIG'S QUEER COMICS AESTHETIC IN MAYBE . . . MAYBE NOT AND KILLER CONDOM -- OLD MALAY HEROES NEVER DIE: THE STORY OF HANG TUAH IN FILMS AND COMICS -- ENKI BILAL'S INTERMEDIAL FANTASIES: FROM COMIC BOOK NIKOPOL TRILOGY TO FILM IMMORTALS (AD VITAM) -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Abstract:
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 comic books for the screen including Marvel's Uncanny X-Men, the Amazing Spider-Man, Blade, and the Incredible Hulk as well as alternative graphic novels such as From Hell, V for Vendetta, and Road to Perdition. Essayists also discuss recent works from Mexico, France, Germany, and Malaysia. Essays from Timothy P. Barnard, Michael Cohen, Rayna Denison, Martin Flanagan, Sophie Geoffroy-Menoux, Mel Gibson, Kerry Gough, Jonathan Gray, Craig Hight, Derek Johnson, Pascal Lef?vre, Paul M. Malone, Neil Rae, Aldo J. Regalado, Jan van der Putten, and David Wilt Ian Gordon is associate professor of history and convenor of American studies at the National University of Singapore. Mark Jancovich is professor of film and television studies at the University of East Anglia. Matthew P. McAllister is associate professor of film, video, and media studies at Pennsylvania State University.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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