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May Contain Graphic Material - Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Film (Hardcover)
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May Contain Graphic Material - Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Film (Hardcover)
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Since the first Superman film came to the screen in 1978, films
adapted from comics have become increasingly important as a film
form. But 1978 was also important because it was the year of
release for Will Eisner's A Contract with God, and Other Stories,
generally credited as the first long-form comic book to label
itself a graphic novel. Since that time, advances in
computer-generated special effects have significantly improved the
ability of film to capture the style and action of comics,
producing such hugely successful films as X-Men (2000) and
Spider-Man (2002). Meanwhile, the genre of the graphic novel has
greatly evolved as a form—especially through the works of people
like Frank Miller and Alan Moore—taking comics in dramatically
new and different directions, generally darker and more serious
than conventional comics. Graphic novels have also formed the basis
for less visually spectacular, but intelligent and thoughtful films
such as Ghost World (2001) and American Splendor (2002). Booker
surveys this important development in film history, tracking the
movement to a more mature style in comics, and then a more mature
style in films about comics. He focuses on detailed discussions of
15 major films or franchises, but also considers the general impact
of graphic novels on the style and content of American film in
general. The Batman franchise, especially in the 1989 film and in
2005's Batman Begins, has provided adaptations of a classic
comic-book motif inflected through the Dark Knight graphic novels
of Frank Miller. The marriage of new film technology and the
development of the genre of the graphic novel has produced a number
of important innovations in film, including such breakthrough
efforts in visual art as The Crow (1994), and Sin City (2005).
Films such as Road to Perdition (2002) and A History of Violence
(2005) have provided interesting adaptations of noirish graphic
novels that rely somewhat less on visual style to achieve their
effects.
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