| Other author/creator | Mitaine, Benoît, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Roche, David, 1976- editor, translator. |
| Other author/creator | Schmitt-Pitiot, Isabelle, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Rommens, Aarnoud, translator. |
| Contents |
Introduction: adapting adaptation studies to comics studies / David Roche, Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot, and Benoît Mitaine -- Adaptation: a writerly strategy? / Jan Baetens -- Narrative (de)constructions and the persistence of the text: images of the Cid between epic performance and comics / Thomas Faye -- Absent humanity: personification and spatialization in "there will come soft rains" -- Nestor Burma, from Léo Malet to Jacques Tardi, via Jacques-Daniel Norman: 120, rue de la Gare and its adaptations / Christophe Gelly -- Doctor Jekyll & Mister Hyde by Mattotti-Kramsky: shattering figuration / Laura Cecilia Caraballo -- In defense of freedom of adaptation: the case of El hombre descuadernado, an adaptation of "The Horla" / Benoît Mitaine -- The comic book effect in the age of CGI: when film adaptations of comic books evoke the fixity of their model / Alain Boillat -- From Marvel Comics to Marvel Studios: adaptation, intermediality, and contemporary Hollywood strategies / Dick Tomasovic -- Fritz the Cat (1972): from Crumb to Bakshi, betraying the author and translating the Zeitgeist / Jean-Paul Gabilliet -- Adapting a graphic novel into film: historicity and the play of signs in Corto Maltese: la cour secrète des arcanes (Pascal Morelli, 2002), an adaptation of Corto Maltese in Siberia by Hugo Pratt / Philippe Bourdier -- Sin City (Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, 2005): improbable encounters between embodied and drawn characters / Pierre Floquet -- From screen to page?: Castle (ABC, 2009-2016) and Richard Castle's Deadly Storm / Shannon Wells-Lassagne. |
| Abstract |
Both comics studies and adaptation studies have grown separately over the past twenty years. Yet there are few in-depth studies of comic books and adaptations together. Available for the first time in English, this collection pores over the phenomenon of comic books and adaptation, sifting through comics as both sources and results of adaptation. Essays shed light on the many ways adaptation studies inform research on comic books and content adapted from them. Contributors concentrate on fidelity to the source materials, adaptation and myth, adaptation and intertextuality, as well as adaptation and ideology. After an introduction that assesses adaptation studies as a framework, the book examines comics adaptations of literary texts as more than just illustrations of their sources. Essayists then focus on adaptations of comics, often from a transmedia perspective. Case studies analyze both famous and lesser-known American, Belgian, French, Italian, and Spanish comics. Essays investigate specific works, such as Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Castilian epic poem Poema de Mio Cid, Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, French comics artist Jacques Tardi's adaptation 120, rue de la Gare, and Frank Miller's Sin City. In addition to Marvel Comics' blockbusters, topics include various uses of adaptation, comic book adaptation of literary texts, narrative deconstruction of performance and comic book art, and many more. |
| General note | "Originally published in 2015 by Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal as Bande dessinée et adaptation." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Comic books, strips, etc. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | Comics (Graphic works) |
| Contains title |
Container of (expression): Bande dessinée et adaptation. |
| LCCN | 2018003404 |
| ISBN | 9781496803375 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 149680337X (hardcover alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (epub single) |
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| ISBN | (epub institutional) |
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| ISBN | (pdf single) |
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| Standard identifier# |
40028338980 |
