03226nam 2200517 450 991015171920332120230810001355.01-4968-0982-3(CKB)3710000000952374(MiAaPQ)EBC4745701(StDuBDS)EDZ0001919382(EXLCZ)99371000000095237420160706h20172017 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierPanel to the screen style, American film, and comic books during the blockbuster era /Drew MortonJackson :University Press of Mississippi,2018.1 online resource (239 pages) illustrationsPreviously issued in print: 2016.1-4968-0978-5 Includes bibliographical references and index."Over the past forty years, American film has entered into a formal interaction with the comic book. Such comic book adaptations as Sin City, 300, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World have adopted components of their source materials' visual style. The screen has been fractured into panels, the photographic has given way to the graphic, and the steady rhythm of cinematic time has evolved into a far more malleable element. In other words, films have begun to look like comics. Yet, this interplay also occurs in the other direction. In order to retain cultural relevancy, comic books have begun to look like films. Frank Miller's original Sin City comics are indebted to film noir while Stephen King's The Dark Tower series could be a Sergio Leone spaghetti western translated onto paper. Film and comic books continuously lean on one another to reimagine their formal attributes and stylistic possibilities. In Panel to the Screen, Drew Morton examines this dialogue in its intersecting and rapidly changing cultural, technological, and industrial contexts. Early on, many questioned the prospect of a "low" art form suited for children translating into "high" art material capable of drawing colossal box office takes. Now the naysayers are as quiet as the queued crowds at Comic-Cons are massive. Morton provides a nuanced account of this phenomenon by using formal analysis of the texts in a real-world context of studio budgets, grosses, and audience reception"--Provided by publisher.Film adaptationsHistory and criticismMotion pictures and comic booksSuperhero filmsComic strip characters in motion picturesMotion picturesProduction and directionUnited StatesMotion picture industryUnited StatesFilm adaptationsHistory and criticism.Motion pictures and comic books.Superhero films.Comic strip characters in motion pictures.Motion picturesProduction and directionMotion picture industry791.43/6Morton Drew1983-1378784MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910151719203321Panel to the screen3417739UNINA