Comic Book Movies

Blair Davis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

150 Seiten

2018
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9009-7 (ISBN)

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Explores how this genre serves as a source for modern-day myths, sometimes even incorporating ancient mythic figures like Thor and Wonder Woman's Amazons, while engaging with the questions that haunt a post-9/11 world: How do we define heroism and morality today? How far are we willing to go when fighting terror? How can we resist a dystopian state?

Comic Book Movies explores how this genre serves as a source for modern-day myths, sometimes even incorporating ancient mythic figures like Thor and Wonder Woman’s Amazons, while engaging with the questions that haunt a post-9/11 world: How do we define heroism and morality today? How far are we willing to go when fighting terror? How can we resist a dystopian state?

Film scholar Blair Davis also considers how the genre’s visual style is equally important as its weighty themes, and he details how advances in digital effects have allowed filmmakers to incorporate elements of comic book art in innovative ways. As he reveals, comic book movies have inspired just as many innovations to Hollywood’s business model, with film franchises and transmedia storytelling helping to ensure that the genre will continue its reign over popular culture for years to come.

BLAIR DAVIS is an associate professor of media and cinema studies at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of several books, including Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page (Rutgers University Press).

Introduction

1   Genre

2   Myth

3   Politics

4   Style

Acknowledgments

Notes

Further Reading

Works Cited

Films Cited

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2018
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	108 x 178 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
ISBN-10	0-8135-9009-4 / 0813590094
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-9009-7 / 9780813590097
Zustand	Neuware