03899cam a2200541 i 4500 19437439 BJBSDDR 20240209123216.0 ta 170111s2017 txua b s001 0 eng c 2017000691 9781477314500 1477314504 9781477313251 (cloth : alk. paper) 1477313257 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781477313268 (library e-book) 9781477313275 (non-library e-book) TxU/DLC eng TxU rda eng pcc PN 1997.85 J47c 2017 741.43/6 Jeffries, Dru, 33976 Comic book film style : cinema at 24 panels per second / Dru Jeffries. First edition. Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2017. viii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-251) and index. The six modes of interaction between comics and film -- Vandalizing the fourth wall : word-image hybridity and a comic book cinema of attractions -- These panels have been formatted to fit your screen : remediating the comics page through the cinematic frame -- The privileged instant : remediating stasis as movement -- The polymedial comic book film -- Conclusion. Superhero films and comic book adaptations dominate contemporary Hollywood filmmaking, and it is not just the storylines of these blockbuster spectacles that have been influenced by comics. The comic book medium itself has profoundly influenced how movies look and sound today, as well as how viewers approach them as texts. Comic Book Film Style explores how the unique conventions and formal structure of comic books have had a profound impact on film aesthetics, so that the different representational abilities of comics and film are put on simultaneous display in a cinematic work. With close readings of films including Batman: The Movie, American Splendor, Superman, Hulk, Spider-Man 2, V for Vendetta, 300, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Watchmen, The Losers, and Creepshow, Dru Jeffries offers a new and more cogent definition of the comic book film as a stylistic approach rather than a genre, repositioning the study of comic book films from adaptation and genre studies to formal/stylistic analysis. He discusses how comic book films appropriate comics' drawn imagery, vandalize the fourth wall with the use of graphic text, dissect the film frame into discrete panels, and treat time as a flexible construct rather than a fixed flow, among other things. This cinematic remediation of comic books' formal structure and unique visual conventions, Jeffries asserts, fundamentally challenges the classical continuity paradigm and its contemporary variants, placing the comic book film at the forefront of stylistic experimentation in post-classical Hollywood. Motion pictures and comic books. Film adaptations History and criticism. Comic strip characters in motion pictures. Motion pictures Production and direction. Adaptaciones cinematográficas Historia y crítica 16188 Tiras cómicas, historietas, etc. Historia y crítica 22921 Personajes de tiras cómicas, historietas, etc. 34303 Libros de historietas, tiras cómicas, etc. 34305 Superhéroes en el cine 34304 Películas cinematográficas Producción y dirección 15330 Cine Producción y dirección 99 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 77869 77869 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 0 PN 1997.85 J47c 2017 00000120667 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 BK