Research Catalog

Title

Comics and pop culture : adaptation from panel to frame / edited by Barry Keith Grant and Scott Henderson.

Publication

• Austin, Texas : University of Teas Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-
• Henderson, Scott, 1965-

Description

xi, 330 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"This engaging collection explores the multi-media intersections of comics, film, television, and popular culture over the last century, ranging from Felix the Cat to Black Panther."--

Subject

• Film adaptations > History and criticism
• Comic strip characters in motion pictures
• Comic strip characters on television
• Comic books, strips, etc. > Film adaptations
• Motion pictures and comic books
• Mass media and culture
• Film adaptations

Genre/Form

• Film adaptations.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Barry Keith Grant and Scott Henderson -- Part One. Issues and debates -- Crossroads of infinity, or Universum Incognitum / Scott Bukatman -- From adaptation to extension : a history of comics adapting films, 1974-2015 / Blair Davis -- Take the movie home! How the comic book tie-in anticipated transmedia production / Liam Burke -- Manga, anime, adaptation : economic strategies, aesthetic specificities, social issues / Chris Reyns-Chikuma -- Genre and superhero cinema / Aaron Taylor -- Destroying the rainbow bridge : representations of heterosexuality in Marvel superhero narratives / Miriam Kent -- Mutatis mutandis : constructing fidelity in the comic book film adaptation / Jason Rothery and Benjamin Woo -- "We roller coaster through . . ." : screenwriting, narrative economy, and the inscription of the haptic in tentpole comic book movies / Julian Hoxter -- Adaptation and seriality : comic book to television series adaptations / Sherryl Vint -- Part Two: Panels and frames -- Felix in -- and out of -- space / J.P. Telotte -- Comic book life/style : world building in American Splendor / Matt Yockey -- Extraordinary career of Modesty Blaise / James Chapman -- Authenticity and Judge Dredd on film / J. Mark Percival -- CGI as adaptation strategy : can a digitally constructed Spider-Man do whatever a hand-drawn Spider-Man can? / James C. Taylor -- Scott Pilgrim's precious little texts : adaptation, form, and transmedia co-creation / John Bodner -- Transmedia adaptation and writing in the margins : a graphic expansion of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead / Aviva Briefel -- Agency and intertextuality : Tank Girl, subcultural aesthetics, and the strong female protagonist / Scott Henderson -- Black Panther: aspiration, identification, and appropriation / Jeffrey A. Brown.

Call Number

MFL 20-1660

ISBN

• 9781477319383
• 1477319387
• 9781477319390
• 1477319395
• 9781477319406 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781477319413 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019007789
• 40029658116

OCLC

1089841611

Title

Comics and pop culture : adaptation from panel to frame / edited by Barry Keith Grant and Scott Henderson.

Publisher

Austin, Texas : University of Teas Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Grant, Barry Keith, 1947- editor.

Henderson, Scott, 1965- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40029658116

Sudoc No.

Z UA380.8 C735 txdocs

Research Call Number

MFL 20-1660