Comic book film style : cinema at 24 panels per second /
Jeffries, Dru,
Comic book film style : cinema at 24 panels per second / Dru Jeffries. - First edition. - viii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-251) and index.
The six modes of interaction between comics and film -- Vandalizing the fourth wall : word-image hybridity and a comic book cinema of attractions -- These panels have been formatted to fit your screen : remediating the comics page through the cinematic frame -- The privileged instant : remediating stasis as movement -- The polymedial comic book film -- Conclusion.
Superhero films and comic book adaptations dominate contemporary Hollywood filmmaking, and it is not just the storylines of these blockbuster spectacles that have been influenced by comics. The comic book medium itself has profoundly influenced how movies look and sound today, as well as how viewers approach them as texts. Comic Book Film Style explores how the unique conventions and formal structure of comic books have had a profound impact on film aesthetics, so that the different representational abilities of comics and film are put on simultaneous display in a cinematic work. With close readings of films including Batman: The Movie, American Splendor, Superman, Hulk, Spider-Man 2, V for Vendetta, 300, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Watchmen, The Losers, and Creepshow, Dru Jeffries offers a new and more cogent definition of the comic book film as a stylistic approach rather than a genre, repositioning the study of comic book films from adaptation and genre studies to formal/stylistic analysis. He discusses how comic book films appropriate comics' drawn imagery, vandalize the fourth wall with the use of graphic text, dissect the film frame into discrete panels, and treat time as a flexible construct rather than a fixed flow, among other things. This cinematic remediation of comic books' formal structure and unique visual conventions, Jeffries asserts, fundamentally challenges the classical continuity paradigm and its contemporary variants, placing the comic book film at the forefront of stylistic experimentation in post-classical Hollywood.
9781477314500 1477314504 9781477313251 (cloth : alk. paper) 1477313257 (cloth : alk. paper)
2017000691
Motion pictures and comic books.
Film adaptations--History and criticism.
Comic strip characters in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Production and direction.
Adaptaciones cinematográficas --Historia y crítica
Tiras cómicas, historietas, etc. --Historia y crítica
Personajes de tiras cómicas, historietas, etc.
Libros de historietas, tiras cómicas, etc.
Superhéroes en el cine
Películas cinematográficas --Producción y dirección
Cine--Producción y dirección
PN 1997.85 / J47c 2017
741.43/6
Comic book film style : cinema at 24 panels per second / Dru Jeffries. - First edition. - viii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-251) and index.
The six modes of interaction between comics and film -- Vandalizing the fourth wall : word-image hybridity and a comic book cinema of attractions -- These panels have been formatted to fit your screen : remediating the comics page through the cinematic frame -- The privileged instant : remediating stasis as movement -- The polymedial comic book film -- Conclusion.
Superhero films and comic book adaptations dominate contemporary Hollywood filmmaking, and it is not just the storylines of these blockbuster spectacles that have been influenced by comics. The comic book medium itself has profoundly influenced how movies look and sound today, as well as how viewers approach them as texts. Comic Book Film Style explores how the unique conventions and formal structure of comic books have had a profound impact on film aesthetics, so that the different representational abilities of comics and film are put on simultaneous display in a cinematic work. With close readings of films including Batman: The Movie, American Splendor, Superman, Hulk, Spider-Man 2, V for Vendetta, 300, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Watchmen, The Losers, and Creepshow, Dru Jeffries offers a new and more cogent definition of the comic book film as a stylistic approach rather than a genre, repositioning the study of comic book films from adaptation and genre studies to formal/stylistic analysis. He discusses how comic book films appropriate comics' drawn imagery, vandalize the fourth wall with the use of graphic text, dissect the film frame into discrete panels, and treat time as a flexible construct rather than a fixed flow, among other things. This cinematic remediation of comic books' formal structure and unique visual conventions, Jeffries asserts, fundamentally challenges the classical continuity paradigm and its contemporary variants, placing the comic book film at the forefront of stylistic experimentation in post-classical Hollywood.
9781477314500 1477314504 9781477313251 (cloth : alk. paper) 1477313257 (cloth : alk. paper)
2017000691
Motion pictures and comic books.
Film adaptations--History and criticism.
Comic strip characters in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Production and direction.
Adaptaciones cinematográficas --Historia y crítica
Tiras cómicas, historietas, etc. --Historia y crítica
Personajes de tiras cómicas, historietas, etc.
Libros de historietas, tiras cómicas, etc.
Superhéroes en el cine
Películas cinematográficas --Producción y dirección
Cine--Producción y dirección
PN 1997.85 / J47c 2017
741.43/6