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Author : Brian Michael Bendis
Release : 2000-07-14
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fortune and Glory by : Brian Michael Bendis
Download or read book Fortune and Glory written by Brian Michael Bendis. This book was released on 2000-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comic book portrayal of Hollywood actors and actresses.
Author : Ian Gordon
Release : 2010-01-06
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 09X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Film and Comic Books by : Ian Gordon
Download or read book Film and Comic Books written by Ian Gordon. This book was released on 2010-01-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Shawna Kidman
Release : 2019-04-30
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 555/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Comic Books Incorporated by : Shawna Kidman
Download or read book Comic Books Incorporated written by Shawna Kidman. This book was released on 2019-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial lens. Comic books wielded their influence from the margins and in-between spaces of the entertainment business for half a century before moving to the center of mainstream film and television production. This extraordinary history begins at the medium’s origin in the 1930s, when comics were a reviled, disorganized, and lowbrow mass medium, and surveys critical moments along the way—market crashes, corporate takeovers, upheavals in distribution, and financial transformations. Shawna Kidman concludes this revisionist history in the early 2000s, when Hollywood had fully incorporated comic book properties and strategies into its business models and transformed the medium into the heavily exploited, exceedingly corporate, and yet highly esteemed niche art form we know so well today.
Author : Liam Burke
Release : 2015-03-31
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 188/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Comic Book Film Adaptation by : Liam Burke
Download or read book The Comic Book Film Adaptation written by Liam Burke. This book was released on 2015-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Alisa Perren
Release : 2021-07
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 425/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood by : Alisa Perren
Download or read book The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood written by Alisa Perren. This book was released on 2021-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood is the first book to provide an industry perspective on the resurgence of comic books and their hugely successful Hollywood adaptations. It provides an accessible overview, including interviews with industry professionals and detailed case studies such as Batman, The Walking Dead, and Marvel"--
