[ecrea] New book: Comic Book Film Style

A new publication from University of Texas Press

Free postage to UK customers

http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/comic-book-film-style

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*Comic Book Film Style***

*Cinema at 24 Panels per Second***

/Dru Jeffries///

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.

*Dru Jeffries *teaches comics studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and 
has taught film at Concordia University and the University of Toronto. 
He has published scholarship on film and comic books in /Porn Studies, 
Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Cinephile,/ and several edited volumes.

University of Texas Press |  | August 2017| 270pp |  | 9781477314500 | 
Paperback | £24.99*

20% discount with this code: CSL17CBFS**

*Price subject to change.

  **Offer excludes the USA, Canada and South America.


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