Comics and Adaptation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1496828186 ISBN 13: 9781496828187

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2020

Synopsis

Contributions by Jan Baetens, Alain Boillat, Philippe Bourdier, Laura Cecilia Caraballo, Thomas Faye, Pierre Floquet, Jean-Paul Gabilliet, Christophe Gelly, Nicolas Labarre, Benoît Mitaine, David Roche, Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot, Dick Tomasovic, and Shannon Wells-Lassagne

Both comics studies and adaptation studies have grown separately over the past twenty years. Yet there are few in-depth studies of comic books and adaptations together. Available for the first time in English, this collection pores over the phenomenon of comic books and adaptation, sifting through comics as both sources and results of adaptation. Essays shed light on the many ways adaptation studies inform research on comic books and content adapted from them. Contributors concentrate on fidelity to the source materials, comparative analysis, forms of media, adaptation and myth, adaptation and intertextuality, as well as adaptation and ideology.

After an introduction that assesses adaptation studies as a framework, the book examines comics adaptations of literary texts as more than just illustrations of their sources. Essayists then focus on adaptations of comics, often from a transmedia perspective. Case studies analyze both famous and lesser-known American, Belgian, French, Italian, and Spanish comics.

Essays investigate specific works, such as Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Castilian epic poem Poema de Mio Cid, Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, French comics artist Jacques Tardi's adaptation 120, rue de la Gare, and Frank Miller's Sin City. In addition to Marvel Comics' blockbusters, topics include various uses of adaptation, comic book adaptations of literary texts, narrative deconstruction of performance and comic book art, and many more.

About this title

About the Author

Benoît Mitaine is associate professor of Spanish at the Paul Valéry University of Montpellier. He is coeditor of Lignes de front: bande dessinée totalitarisme and Autobio-graphismes: bande dessinée et représentation de soi.

David Roche is professor of film studies at the Paul Valéry University of Montpellier. He is author of Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don’t They Do It Like They Used To? and Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction, and editor of Conversations with Russell Banks, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot is retired associate professor of English at the Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France. She has coedited Intimacy in Cinema: Critical Essays on English-Language Films and published widely on English-language cinema.

Aarnoud Rommens is an independent scholar, editor, and translator. He is author of Joaquín Torres-García: Constructive Universalism and the Inversion of Abstraction and editor of Comics and Abstraction: Narrative by Other Means.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1496828186
• ISBN 13: 9781496828187
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Mitaine Benoît, Roche David, Schmitt-Pitiot Isabelle