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Morton, Drew

 
9781496820280: Panel to the Screen: Style, American Film, and Comic Books during the Blockbuster Era
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ISBN 10 : 1496820282 ISBN 13 : 9781496820280
Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2018

Synopsis

Over the past forty years, American film has entered into a formal interaction with the comic book. Such comic book adaptations as Sin City, 300, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World have adopted components of their source materials' visual style. The screen has been fractured into panels, the photographic has given way to the graphic, and the steady rhythm of cinematic time has evolved into a far more malleable element. In other words, films have begun to look like comics. Yet, this interplay also occurs in the other direction. In order to retain cultural relevancy, comic books have begun to look like films. Frank Miller's original Sin City comics are indebted to film noir while Stephen King's The Dark Tower series could be a Sergio Leone spaghetti western translated onto paper. Film and comic books continuously lean on one another to reimagine their formal attributes and stylistic possibilities. In Panel to the Screen, Drew Morton examines this dialogue in its intersecting and rapidly changing cultural, technological, and industrial contexts. Early on, many questioned the prospect of a ""low"" art form suited for children translating into ""high"" art material capable of drawing colossal box office takes. Now the naysayers are as quiet as the queued crowds at Comic-Cons are massive. Morton provides a nuanced account of this phenomenon by using formal analysis of the texts in a real-world context of studio budgets, grosses, and audience reception.

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À propos de l'auteur

Drew Morton, Los Angeles, California, is associate professor of mass communication at Texas A&M University-Texarkana. His publications have appeared in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal; Cinema Journal; [in]Transition; Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics; and Studies in Comics. He is the cofounder and coeditor of [in]Transition, the award-winning journal devoted to videographic criticism.

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Éditeur
University Press of Mississippi
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1496820282
ISBN 13 
9781496820280
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Nombre de pages
238
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