[eccr] FW: Film and Comic Books. Call for book chapters

>Call for Book Chapters:  Film and Comic Books.  Edited by Ian Gordon,
>Mark Jancovich, and Matthew P. McAllister
>
>Comic book characters such as Superman and Batman appeared in B movies
>and film serials long before the blockbuster adaptations of the 1970s
>and 1980s. Likewise Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and the Hulk featured
>in low production value television series from the 1950s to the 1970s.
>In recent years film makers have adapted a plethora of comic books for
>the screen including Marvel's the X-Men, Spider-Man, Blade, and the
>Hulk, Alan Moore's From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentleman,
>and Road to Perdition and Ghost World. Production deals for comic book
>character-based movies have multiplied rapidly. Beyond Hollywood, Asian
>film makers have joined the trend with Jet Li appearing in Black Mask
>and Michelle Yeoh in the self-described "comic book style" Silver Hawk.
>It seems that more is at stake than a shift from low budget/status
>productions to blockbusters. Critical acclaim has flowed for many of the
>recent efforts and respected directors such as Sam Mendes and Ang Lee
>have lent their talents to films based on comic books. At the same time,
>particularly since the success of Maus, comic books have gained
>increased critical respectability even attaining the dizzy heights of
>favourable reviews in the New York Times and the New York Review of
>Books, albeit accompanied by discussions of what constitutes a comic
>book.
>
>We are looking for articles of between 6,000 and 8,000 words that
>address the changing and interrelated dynamics of film and comic book
>production and reception. Possible subjects might include, but are not
>limited to:
>
>Shifting notions of legitimacy
>Directors
>Changing nature of popular heroes/mythology
>Role of film in popularizing/promoting small indie comics and the
>transformation of such texts that may occur
>Impact of films on the comic book industry
>Role of corporate synergy (such as the DC/Warner Bros connection)
>Economics of production
>CGI and the blurring of the "real"
>Semiological and semiotic comparison of the texts.
>Fan cultures
>Audiences
>Genres and formats
>Specific films: Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, X-Men, Blade,  From Hell,
>Ghost World, Black Mask etc
>
>Please address chapters/proposals by March 15, 2004 to:
>
>Ian Gordon, Email: (hisilg /at/ nus.edu.sg)
>Department of History,
>Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
>National University of Singapore
>11 Arts Link, AS1 05 - 27
>Singapore 117570
>Tel: (65) 6874 3838
>Fax: (65) 6774-2528
>
>Notification of acceptance of chapters will be made by May 1, 2004.
>
>The Editors
>
>Ian Gordon, Associate Professor and Head Department of History, National
>University of Singapore
>Select Publications:
>Comic Strips and Consumer Culture (Washington: Smithsonian, 1998,
>Paperback edition 2002)
>Comics and Ideology (New York: Peter Lang, 2001) edited with Matthew
>McAllister and Edward Sewell
>"Superman on the Set: The Market, Nostalgia and Television Audiences,"
>in Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, the Industry, and Fans (London:
>British Film Institute and Berkeley: University of California Press,
>2003)
>"Advertising", and "Coca-Cola" in Encyclopedia of American Studies (New
>York: Grolier, 2001)
>"Cultural Symbols", "Culture of Consumption", "Singapore Airlines", and
>"War Bonds", in Encyclopedia of Advertising (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn,
>2003)
>
>Mark Jancovich, Professor of Film Studies, University of Nottingham
>Select Publications:
>Series Editor: Inside Popular Film (with Eric Schaefer, Boston College)
>Manchester University Press.
>Quality Popular Television (edited with James Lyons) BFI, 2003.
>Horror: The Film Reader, Routledge, 2001.
>The Film Studies Reader (edited with Joanne Hollows and Peter Hutchings)
>Arnold, 2000.
>Rational Fears: American Horror in the 1950s, Manchester University
>Press, 1996.
>Approaches to Popular Film, (edited with Joanne Hollows), Manchester
>University Press, 1995.
>The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism, Cambridge University Press,
>1993.
>
>Matthew P. McAllister, Associate Professor of Communication, Virginia
>Tech.
>Select Publications:
>Selling Survivor: The use of TV news to promote commercial
>entertainment. In A. N. Valdivia (Ed.), A Companion to Media Studies.
>Blackwell, 2003
>Is commercial culture popular culture?: A question for popular
>communication scholars. Popular Communication, 1:1, (2003), 41-49.
>Television news plugola and the last episode of Seinfeld. Journal of
>Communication, 52:2, (2002), 383-401.
>Comics and Ideology, edited with Edward Sewell and Ian Gordon.  Peter
>Lang, 2001.
>The Commercialization of American Culture: New Advertising, Control, And
>Democracy. Sage, 1996.

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