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

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By Blair Davis

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 may perhaps imagine that the “comic e-book motion picture” is a particularly twenty-first-century shape. but variations of comics were a vital part 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 ebook to review the lengthy heritage of either comics-to-film and film-to-comics diversifications, protecting 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 distinct specialise in 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 a number of manufacturers. whereas interpreting this creation background, he additionally tracks the inventive coevolution of flicks and comics, contemplating the numerous formal parts 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 kinds, Movie Comics provides readers a brand new appreciation for the original characteristics of the illustrated web page and the cinematic relocating picture.

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