[Commlist] New book: Comics and Pop Culture

We would like to announce a new publication from the University of Texas 
Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Comics and Pop Culture***

Adaptation from Panel to Frame

*Edited by Barry Keith Grant & Scott Henderson***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/comics-and-pop-culture_**__*

It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging 
the impact of comic book adaptations, especially considering the 
blockbuster success of recent superhero movies. Yet transmedial 
adaptations are part of an evolution that can be traced to the turn of 
the last century, when comic strips such as “Little Nemo in Slumberland” 
and “Felix the Cat” were animated for the silver screen. Representing 
diverse academic fields, including technoculture, film studies, theater, 
feminist studies, popular culture, and queer studies, /Comics and Pop 
Culture/ presents more than a dozen perspectives on this rich history 
and the effects of such adaptations.

Examining current debates and the questions raised by comics 
adaptations, including those around authorship, style, and textual 
fidelity, the contributors consider the topic from an array of 
approaches that take into account representations of sexuality, gender, 
and race as well as concepts of world-building and cultural 
appropriation in comics from /Modesty Blaise/ to /Black Panther/. The 
result is a fascinating re-imagination of the texts that continue to 
push the boundaries of panel, frame, and popular culture.

*Barry Keith Grant *is a professor emeritus of film studies and popular 
culture at Brock University. He is the author or editor of two dozen 
previous books on film and popular culture, including /The Dread of 
Difference: Gender and the Horror Film /and four editions of /Film Genre 
Reader/.

*Scott Henderson*is an associate professor in the Department of 
Communication, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University and the 
coeditor of /Canadian Television: Text and Context/.

With all best wishes,

Combined Academic Publishers

*University of Texas Press**| December 2019 | 344pp | 9781477319390 | PB 
| £28.99**

*Price subject to change.


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