Contributions by Jan Baetens, Alain Boillat, Philippe Bourdier,
Laura Cecilia Caraballo, Thomas Faye, Pierre Floquet, Jean-Paul
Gabilliet, Christophe Gelly, Nicolas Labarre, Benoit Mitaine, David
Roche, Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot, Dick Tomasovic, and Shannon
Wells-LassagneBoth 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, comparative analysis, forms of media, 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 adaptations
of literary texts, narrative deconstruction of performance and
comic book art, and many more.
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