Movie comics : page to screen/screen to page

The Resource Movie comics : page to screen/screen to page
Label
Movie comics : page to screen/screen to page
Title remainder
page to screen/screen to page
Statement of responsibility
Blair Davis
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"As Christopher Nolan's Batman films and releases from the Marvel Cinematic Universe have regularly topped the box office charts, fans and critics alike might assume that the "comic book movie" is a distinctly twenty-first-century form. Yet adaptations of comics have been an integral part of American cinema from its very inception, with comics characters regularly leaping from the page to the screen and cinematic icons spawning comics of their own. Movie Comics is the first book to study the long history of both comics-to-film and film-to-comics adaptations, covering everything from silent films starring Happy Hooligan to sound films and serials featuring Dick Tracy and Superman to comic books starring John Wayne, Gene Autry, Bob Hope, Abbott & Costello, Alan Ladd, and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. With a special focus on the Classical Hollywood era, Blair Davis investigates the factors that spurred this media convergence, as the film and comics industries joined forces to expand the reach of their various brands. While analyzing this production history, he also tracks the artistic coevolution of films and comics, considering the many formal elements that each medium adopted and adapted from the other."--Back cover
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
791.43/657
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PN1995.9.C36
LC item number
D38 2017
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography

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