The Comic Book Film Adaptation

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In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed into Hollywood's leading genre. From superheroes to Spartan warriors, The Comic Book Film Adaptation offers the first dedicated study to examine how comic books moved from the fringes of popular culture to the center of mainstream film production. Through in-depth analysis, industry interviews, and audience research, this book charts the cause-and-effect of this influential trend. It considers the cultural traumas, business demands, and digital possibilities that Hollywood faced at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The industry managed to meet these challenges by exploiting comics and their existing audiences. However, studios were caught off-guard when these comic book fans, empowered by digital media, began to influence the success of these adaptations. Nonetheless, filmmakers soon developed strategies to take advantage of this intense fanbase, while codifying the trend into a more lucrative genre, the comic book movie, which appealed to an even wider audience. Central to this vibrant trend is a comic aesthetic in which filmmakers utilize digital filmmaking technologies to engage with the language and conventions of comics like never before. The Comic Book Film Adaptation explores this unique moment in which cinema is stimulated, challenged, and enriched by the once-dismissed medium of comics.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Liam Burke
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release : 2015-03-31
File : 381 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781626745186


Comic Book Film Style

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Superhero films and comic book adaptations dominate contemporary Hollywood filmmaking, and it is not just the storylines of these blockbuster spectacles that have been influenced by comics. The comic book medium itself has profoundly influenced how movies look and sound today, as well as how viewers approach them as texts. Comic Book Film Style explores how the unique conventions and formal structure of comic books have had a profound impact on film aesthetics, so that the different representational abilities of comics and film are put on simultaneous display in a cinematic work. With close readings of films including Batman: The Movie, American Splendor, Superman, Hulk, Spider-Man 2, V for Vendetta, 300, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Watchmen, The Losers, and Creepshow, Dru Jeffries offers a new and more cogent definition of the comic book film as a stylistic approach rather than a genre, repositioning the study of comic book films from adaptation and genre studies to formal/stylistic analysis. He discusses how comic book films appropriate comics' drawn imagery, vandalize the fourth wall with the use of graphic text, dissect the film frame into discrete panels, and treat time as a flexible construct rather than a fixed flow, among other things. This cinematic remediation of comic books' formal structure and unique visual conventions, Jeffries asserts, fundamentally challenges the classical continuity paradigm and its contemporary variants, placing the comic book film at the forefront of stylistic experimentation in post-classical Hollywood.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Dru Jeffries
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Release : 2017-09-05
File : 270 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781477314500


The Comic Book Film Adaptation

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"In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed into Hollywood's leading genre. From superheroes to Spartan warriors, The Comic Book Film Adaptation offers the first dedicated study to examine how comic books moved from the fringes of popular culture to the center of mainstream film production. Through in-depth analysis, industry interviews, and audience research, this book charts the cause-and-effect of this influential trend. It considers the cultural traumas, business demands, and digital possibilities that Hollywood faced at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The industry managed to meet these challenges by exploiting comics and their existing audiences. However, studios were caught off-guard when these comic book fans, empowered by digital media, began to influence the success of these adaptations. Nonetheless, filmmakers soon developed strategies to take advantage of this intense fanbase, while codifying the trend into a more lucrative genre, the comic book movie, which appealed to an even wider audience. Central to this vibrant trend is a comic aesthetic in which filmmakers utilize digital filmmaking technologies to engage with the language and conventions of comics like never before.The Comic Book Film Adaptation explores this unique moment in which cinema is stimulated, challenged, and enriched by the once-dismissed medium of comics"--

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Genre : LITERARY CRITICISM
Author : Liam P. Burke
Publisher :
Release : 2015
File : Pages
ISBN-13 : 1626745161


Hollywood And The Comics

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HOLLYWOOD & THE COMICS is a complete guide to film & television adaptations of comic books & comic strips. Over 50 films are listed, with cast lists, credits, plot synopses, ratings, reviews & over 120 photographs; "A WINNING BROWSING & REFERENCE SOURCE FOR BOTH FILM & COMIC BOOK AFICIONADOS."--BOOKLIST. Two hundred pages. Available through Quality Books, the distributors, & direct from the publisher.

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Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
Author : David Hofstede
Publisher : Zanne Sweeney
Release : 1991
File : 222 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105000399688


Film And The Arts In Symbiosis

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Film and the Arts in Symbiosis is an interesting collection of readable essays written by film scholars and teachers. Each essay is accompanied by a set of footnotes, a bibliography, and a filmography. The essays cover the relationship between film and painting, photography, graphic arts, literature, theater, classical and popular music, radio, television, video art, and the `new media'. . . . This is a unique and valuable anthology, providing well-written and well-edited essays that may well be used as course readings. RQ This unusual resource guide and handbook examines the key relationships and abundant interconnections between motion pictures and eleven other traditional or communication arts. For the first time, the work of scholars who have studied or taught in fields as diverse as broadcasting, art, music, photography, and popular culture is pulled together for ready access in one volume. Film and the Arts in Symbiosis, takes an exploratory, yet systematic look at the interdisciplinary nature of the film medium and both highlights and enthusiastically endorses that multi-faceted tradition.

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Genre : Art
Author : Gary Edgerton
Publisher : Greenwood
Release : 1988-03-08
File : 412 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015013519023


Schirmer Encyclopedia Of Film

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This reference source covers all aspects of the cinema, including film history, production, national cinemas, genre theory and criticism, and cultural contexts.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : Schirmer Books
Release : 2007
File : 552 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105129851007


Mla International Bibliography Of Books And Articles On The Modern Languages And Literatures

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Genre : Languages, Modern
Author :
Publisher :
Release : 2008
File : 1054 Pages
ISBN-13 : PSU:000057122366


The Comics Journal

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Genre : Comic books, strips, etc
Author :
Publisher :
Release : 2005
File : 636 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015058909428


The Official Overstreet Comic Book Companion

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Includes a section on toy rings.

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Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
Author : Robert M. Overstreet
Publisher : House of Collectibles
Release : 2004-01-13
File : 500 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0375720650


Authorship In Film Adaptation

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Authoring a film adaptation of a literary source not only requires a media conversion but also a transformation as a result of the differing dramatic demands of cinema. The most critical central step in this transformation of a literary source to the screen is the writing of the screenplay. The screenplay usually serves to recruit producers, director, and actors; to attract capital investment; and to give focus to the conception and production of the film project. Often undergoing multiple revisions prior to production, the screenplay represents the crucial decisions of writer and director that will determine how and to what end the film will imitate or depart from its original source. Authorship in Film Adaptation is an accessible, provocative text that opens up new areas of discussion on the central process of adaptation surrounding the screenplay and screenwriter-director collaboration. In contrast to narrow binary comparisons of literary source text and film, the twelve essays in this collection also give attention to the underappreciated role of the screenplay and film pre-production that can signal the primary intention for a film. Divided into four parts, this collection looks first at the role of Hollywood's activist producers and major auteurs such as Hitchcock and Kubrick as they worked with screenwriters to formulate their audio-visual goals. The second part offers case studies of Devil in a Blue Dress and The Sweet Hereafter, for which the directors wrote their own adapted screenplays. Considering the variety of writer-director working relationships that are possible, Part III focuses on adaptations that alter genre, time, and place, and Part IV investigates adaptations that alter stories of romance, sexuality, and ethnicity.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Jack Boozer
Publisher :
Release : 2008-07-15
File : 366 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015074062863