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Blair Davis - Movie Comics - 9780813572260 - V9780813572260
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Movie Comics

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Description for Movie Comics Hardback. Adaptations of comics have been an integral part of American cinema from its very inception. Movie Comics is the first book to study the long history of both comics-to-film and film-to-comics adaptations. With a special focus on the Classical Hollywood era, Blair Davis investigates the factors that spurred this media convergence. Num Pages: 256 pages, 36 colour, 14 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: AKLC; APFN. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 553.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813572260
SKU
V9780813572260
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Blair Davis
BLAIR DAVIS is an assistant professor of media and cinema studies at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget Cinema (Rutgers University Press) and coeditor of Rashomon Effects: Kurosawa, Rashomon, and Their Legacies.

Reviews for Movie Comics
"This is an enlightening, scholarly history. Davis treats his topic seriously while also celebrating the pleasures of these two lively arts."
Publishers Weekly
"Both accessible and well written, Movie Comics will appeal to specialists in film and popular culture and also to the wide fan community that enjoys comic books."
Susan Ohmer
author of George Gallup ... Read more

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