Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page by Blair Davis PDF

By Blair Davis

ISBN-10: 0813572258

ISBN-13: 9780813572253

ISBN-10: 0813572266

ISBN-13: 9780813572260

As Christopher Nolan’s Batman motion pictures and releases from the surprise Cinematic Universe have frequently crowned the field place of work charts, fanatics and critics alike could suppose that the “comic e-book motion picture” is a notably twenty-first-century shape. but diversifications of comics were an essential component of yankee cinema from its very inception, with comics characters usually jumping from the web page to the reveal and cinematic icons spawning comics in their own.

Movie Comics is the 1st booklet to review the lengthy heritage of either comics-to-film and film-to-comics diversifications, masking every little thing from silent movies starring chuffed Hooligan to sound motion pictures and serials that includes Dick Tracy and Superman to comedian books starring John Wayne, Gene Autry, Bob wish, Abbott & Costello, Alan Ladd, and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. With a different concentrate on the Classical Hollywood period, Blair Davis investigates the standards that spurred this media convergence, because the movie and comics industries joined forces to extend the achieve in their numerous manufacturers. whereas examining this construction historical past, he additionally tracks the creative coevolution of movies and comics, contemplating the various formal components that every medium followed and tailored from the other.

As it explores our abiding wish to adventure a similar characters and tales in a number of types, Movie Comics provides readers a brand new appreciation for the original features of the illustrated web page and the cinematic relocating picture.

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