Research Catalog

Title

Comics and adaptation / edited by Benoît Mitaine, David Roche, and Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot ; translated by Aarnoud Rommens and David Roche.

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mitaine, Benoît
• Roche, David, 1976-
• Schmitt-Pitiot, Isabelle
• Rommens, Aarnoud

Description

vii, 238 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Both comics studies and adaptation studies have grown separately over the past twenty years. Yet there are few in-depth studies of comic books and adaptations together. Available for the first time in English, this collection pores over the phenomenon of comic books and adaptation, sifting through comics as both sources and results of adaptation. Essays shed light on the many ways adaptation studies inform research on comic books and content adapted from them. Contributors concentrate on fidelity to the source materials, adaptation and myth, adaptation and intertextuality, as well as adaptation and ideology. After an introduction that assesses adaptation studies as a framework, the book examines comics adaptations of literary texts as more than just illustrations of their sources. Essayists then focus on adaptations of comics, often from a transmedia perspective. Case studies analyze both famous and lesser-known American, Belgian, French, Italian, and Spanish comics. Essays investigate specific works, such as Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Castilian epic poem Poema de Mio Cid, Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, French comics artist Jacques Tardi's adaptation 120, rue de la Gare, and Frank Miller's Sin City. In addition to Marvel Comics' blockbusters, topics include various uses of adaptation, comic book adaptation of literary texts, narrative deconstruction of performance and comic book art, and many more.

Uniform Title

Bande dessinée et adaptation.

Subject

• Comic books, strips, etc. > Adaptations
• Motion pictures and comic books
• Literature > Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism
• Film adaptations
• Television adaptations
• Literature

Genre/Form

• Comic books, strips, etc.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "Originally published in 2015 by Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal as Bande dessinée et adaptation."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

MFL 18-4710

ISBN

• 9781496803375
• 149680337X

LCCN

• 2018003404
• 40028338980

OCLC

1011172283

Title

Comics and adaptation / edited by Benoît Mitaine, David Roche, and Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot ; translated by Aarnoud Rommens and David Roche.

Publisher

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Mitaine, Benoît, editor.

Roche, David, 1976- editor, translator.

Schmitt-Pitiot, Isabelle, editor.

Rommens, Aarnoud, translator.

Added Title

Container of (expression): Bande dessinée et adaptation.

Other Standard Identifier

40028338980

Research Call Number

MFL 18-4710