Description
Book SynopsisEmphasizing films such as Batman: The Movie that have received little scholarly attention, this book presents a new and more coherent definition of the comic book film as a stylistic approach rather than a genre.
Trade ReviewHighly Recommended. With the emerging hegemony of the comic-book style in Hollywood adaptations, Jeffries astutely explores what he calls, repeatedly, the remediation of a particular aesthetic grounded in comics. . . [
Comic Book Film Style] adds a fresh, provocative, illuminating voice to the ongoing negotiation of film style. * Choice *
Comic Book Film Style is a well‐researched book that proves benefit to both scholars interested in in‐depth exploration of how comics have shaped our current film industry, as well as the lay researcher who has an interest in comics or film‐making and wants to learn more about how the two work together to create the current state of media in our society. * Journal of Popular Culture *
Comic Book Film Style extensively provides many new terms to explain the language of comics film style, from panel moments to compositional mimesis, and he follows each explanation with multiple examples, most of which include figures that directly visualize concepts at hand. * Popular Culture Studies Journal *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Six Modes of Interaction between Comics and Film
- Chapter 2. Vandalizing the Fourth Wall: Word-Image Hybridity and a Comic Book Cinema of Attractions
- Chapter 3. These Panels Have Been Formatted to Fit Your Screen: Remediating the Comics Page through the Cinematic Frame
- Chapter 4. The Privileged Instant: Remediating Stasis as Movement
- Chapter 5. The Polymedial Comic Book Film
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
