Film and Comic BooksIan Gordon, Mark Jancovich, Matthew P. McAllister 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.
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Contents
THE PROBLEMATIC ADAPTATION OF DRAWN IMAGES | 1 |
IN PURSUIT OF A COMIC BOOK AESTHETIC | 13 |
FROM HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTER TO DARK HORSE COMIC BOOK | 37 |
MARVELS MUTATION FROM MONTHLIES TO MOVIES | 64 |
RETEXTUALIZING COMIC BOOK FILM RECEPTION | 86 |
THE BRITISH BROADSHEET PRESS AND THE XMEN FILMS AND COMIC | 101 |
UNBREAKABLE AND THE LIMITS OF TRANSGRESSION | 116 |
TEEN TRAJECTORIES IN SPIDERMAN AND GHOST WORLD | 137 |
THE CASE OF A MEXICAN MULTIMEDIA HERO | 199 |
THE APPARENT FAILURE OR POSSIBLE TRANSCENDENCE OF RALF KÖNIGS QUEER COMICS AESTHETIC IN MAYBE MAYBE NOT A... | 221 |
THE STORY OF HANG TUAH IN FILMS AND COMICS | 246 |
FROM COMIC BOOK NIKOPOL TRILOGY TO FILM IMMORTALS AD VITAM | 268 |
NOTES | 285 |
REFERENCES | 297 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 317 |
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SUPERMAN SMALLVILLE AND THE PRODUCTION OF MELODRAMA | 160 |
TRANSLATING COMIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY INTO DRAMADOCUMENTARY | 180 |