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Panel to the Screen - Style, American Film, and Comic Books during the Blockbuster Era (Paperback)
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Panel to the Screen - Style, American Film, and Comic Books during the Blockbuster Era (Paperback)
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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.
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