Comics and Pop Culture : : Adaptation from Panel to Frame / / ed. by Scott Henderson, Barry Keith Grant.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Bodner, John,; Briefel, Aviva,; Brown, Jeffrey A.,; Bukatman, Scott,; Burke, Liam,; Chapman, James,; Davis, Blair,; Grant, Barry Keith,; Henderson, Scott,; Hoxter, Julian,; Kent, Miriam,; Percival, J. Mark,; Reyns-Chikuma, Chris,; Rothery, Jason,; Taylor, Aaron,; Taylor, James C.,; Telotte, J. P.,; Vint, Sherryl,; Woo, Benjamin,; Yockey, Matt,
• HerausgeberIn: Grant, Barry Keith,; Henderson, Scott,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE ISSUES AND DEBATES -- The Crossroads of Infinity, or Universum Incognitum -- From Adaptation to Extension: A History of Comics Adapting Films, 1974–2015 -- Take the Movie Home! How the Comic Book Tie-In Anticipated Transmedia Production -- Manga, Anime, Adaptation: Economic Strategies, Aesthetic Specificities, Social Issues -- Genre and Superhero Cinema -- Destroying the Rainbow Bridge: Representations of Heterosexuality in Marvel Superhero Narratives -- Mutatis Mutandis: Constructing Fidelity in the Comic Book Film Adaptation -- “We Roller Coaster Through . . . ” : Screenwriting, Narrative Economy, and the Inscription of the Haptic in Tentpole Comic Book Movies -- Adaptation and Seriality: Comic Book to Television Series Adaptations -- PART TWO PANELS AND FRAMES -- Felix in—and out of—Space -- A Comic Book Life/Style: World Building in American Splendor -- The Extraordinary Career of Modesty Blaise -- Authenticity and Judge Dredd on Film -- CGI as Adaptation Strategy: Can a Digitally Constructed Spider-Man Do Whatever a Hand-Drawn Spider-Man Can? -- Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Texts: Adaptation, Form, and Transmedia Co-creation -- Transmedia Adaptation and Writing in the Margins: A Graphic Expansion of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead -- Agency and Intertextuality: Tank Girl, Subcultural Aesthetics, and the Strong Female Protagonist -- Black Panther: Aspiration, Identification, and Appropriation -- Contributors -- Index