Film and comic books
By: edited by Ian Gordon, Mark Jancovich, Matthew P. McAllister.
Contributors: Gordon, Ian, 1954-; Jancovich, Mark.; McAllister, Matthew P.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781578069774; 9781578069781
Subjects: Comic strip characters in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-315) and index.
Table of contents: title: Incompatible visual ontologies? The problematic adaptation of drawn images / Pascal Lefèvre; title: Dick Tracy: in pursuit of a comic book aesthetic / Michael Cohen; title: Translation creativity and alien econ(c)omics: from Hollywood blockbuster to dark horse comic book / Kerry Gough; title: Will the real Wolverine please stand up? Marvel's mutation from monthlies to movies / Derek Johnson; title: When Gen-X met the X-Men: retextualizing comic book film reception / Neil Rae and Jonathan Gray; title: "Wham! Bam! The X-Men are here!" the British broadsheet press and the X-Men films and comic / Mel Gibson; title: Unbreakable and the limits of transgression / Aldo J. Regalado; title: Teen trajectories in Spider-man and Ghost world / Martin Flanagan; title: It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's DVD! Superman, Smallville, and the production (of) melodrama / Rayna Denison; title: American splendor: translating comic autobiography into drama-documentary / Craig Hight; title: El santo: the case of a Mexican multimedia hero / David Wilt; title: From blockbuster to flop? The apparent failure (or possible transcendence) of Ralf König's queer comics aesthetic in Maybe; title: maybe not and Killer condom / Paul M. Malone; title: Old Malay heroes never die: the story of Hang Tuah in films and comics / Jan van der Putten and Timothy P. Barnard; title: Enki Bilal's intermedial fantasies: from comic book Nikopol trilogy to film Immortals (ad vitam) / Sophie Geoffrey-Menoux.