Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame

Published by University of Texas Press 2019

Comics and Pop Culture

Adaptation from Panel to Frame

Edited by: Barry Keith Grant and Scott Henderson

https://doi.org/10.7560/319383

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About this book

It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adaptations, especially considering the blockbuster success of recent superhero movies. Yet transmedial adaptations are part of an evolution that can be traced to the turn of the last century, when comic strips such as “Little Nemo in Slumberland” and “Felix the Cat” were animated for the silver screen. Representing diverse academic fields, including technoculture, film studies, theater, feminist studies, popular culture, and queer studies, Comics and Pop Culture presents more than a dozen perspectives on this rich history and the effects of such adaptations.

Examining current debates and the questions raised by comics adaptations, including those around authorship, style, and textual fidelity, the contributors consider the topic from an array of approaches that take into account representations of sexuality, gender, and race as well as concepts of world-building and cultural appropriation in comics from Modesty Blaise to Black Panther. The result is a fascinating re-imagination of the texts that continue to push the boundaries of panel, frame, and popular culture.

Author / Editor information

Barry Keith Grant is an emeritus professor of film studies and popular culture, is the author or editor of many books on film and popular culture, including Film Genre Reader.

Scott Henderson Dean and Head of Trent University Durham GTA, is coeditor of Canadian Television: Text and Context.

Reviews

"Comics and Pop Culture tackles one of the most topical issues in media studies today: the relationship of film, comic books, and other graphic arts. The collection considers this vital nexus from a multitude of angles, looking not only at movies derived from comics but also at graphic adaptations of film and at works conceived simultaneously for the screen and the page. For scholars working in both film and graphic arts, this volume will undoubtedly be an important collection."

— Donna Kornhaber, University of Texas at Austin, author of Wes Anderson: A Collector's Cinema

"The volume is divided into highly meaningful sections so that the relationship between film and comic books is beautifully historicized and contextualized and so that cornerstone texts and debates are raised and illuminated. It considers craft, storytelling, transmedia, and ideological and political concerns and intersections in exciting and challenging ways. It is one of the very first volumes to offer such a comprehensive account of comic books and cinema set within a broad interdisciplinary framework of "culture."

— Sean Redmond, Deakin University, coeditor of Endangering Science Fiction Film

"This is an indispensable contribution to scholarship on comic books, film, and the synergetic nature of adaptation."

— CHOICE

"A rich group of essays that represent diverse academic fields, including technoculture, film studies, theater, feminist studies, popular culture, and queer studies."

— New Books in Film

"[Comics and Pop Culture’s] 19 contributors deftly sidestep the ‘Are superhero movies cinema?’ debate – which usually leads to pointless semantic hair-splitting – and instead focus on diverse examples (from American Splendor, to Modesty Blaise and Scott Pilgrim) to illustrate the two mediums’ complex intersections."

— Film International

"Grant and Henderson have collected a fascinating and novel group of essays that challenge conventional notions of adaptation and raise interesting questions for the future of adaptation studies...The variety of subject matter makes this a wonderful read for those interested in comics, film, pop culture, or adaptation theory."

— Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

"Comics and Pop Culture is an unapologetic celebration of the historical, cultural, and processual affect of comics and film by academics who are fans of the subjects of which they write…it provides a wonderful start to a conversation that other scholars may pick up to investigate in other ways. In that aspect, it proves itself to be a valuable resource for the ongoing scholarship around the things we love to study: comics, film, and pop culture."

— Popular Culture Studies Journal

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Barry Keith Grant and Scott Henderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE ISSUES AND DEBATES
The Crossroads of Infinity, or Universum Incognitum Scott Bukatman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
From Adaptation to Extension: A History of Comics Adapting Films, 1974–2015 Blair Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Take the Movie Home! How the Comic Book Tie-In Anticipated Transmedia Production Liam Burke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Manga, Anime, Adaptation: Economic Strategies, Aesthetic Specificities, Social Issues Chris Reyns-Chikuma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Genre and Superhero Cinema Aaron Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Destroying the Rainbow Bridge: Representations of Heterosexuality in Marvel Superhero Narratives Miriam Kent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Mutatis Mutandis: Constructing Fidelity in the Comic Book Film Adaptation Jason Rothery and Benjamin Woo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
“We Roller Coaster Through . . . ” : Screenwriting, Narrative Economy, and the Inscription of the Haptic in Tentpole Comic Book Movies Julian Hoxter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Adaptation and Seriality: Comic Book to Television Series Adaptations Sherryl Vint Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
PART TWO PANELS AND FRAMES
Felix in—and out of—Space J. P. Telotte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
A Comic Book Life/Style: World Building in American Splendor Matt Yockey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
The Extraordinary Career of Modesty Blaise James Chapman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Authenticity and Judge Dredd on Film J. Mark Percival Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
CGI as Adaptation Strategy: Can a Digitally Constructed Spider-Man Do Whatever a Hand-Drawn Spider-Man Can? James C. Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Texts: Adaptation, Form, and Transmedia Co-creation John Bodner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Transmedia Adaptation and Writing in the Margins: A Graphic Expansion of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead Aviva Briefel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Agency and Intertextuality: Tank Girl, Subcultural Aesthetics, and the Strong Female Protagonist Scott Henderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Black Panther: Aspiration, Identification, and Appropriation Jeffrey A. Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 330
Illustrations
- Other: 14 b&w photos, 37 b&w illus.

eBook

Published: December 13, 2019
ISBN: 9781477319406