Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review"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 *
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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 *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction (Barry Keith Grant and Scott Henderson)
- Part One. Issues and Debates
- The Crossroads of Infinity, or Universum Incognitum (Scott Bukatman)
- From Adaptation to Extension: A History of Comics Adapting Films, 1976–2015 (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)
- A Comic Book Life/Style: World Building in American Splendor (Matt Yockey)
- The 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)
- Contributors
- Index
