Film and Comic Books
Title | Film and Comic Books PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Gordon |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 2010-01-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1628468688 |
Contributions by Timothy P. Barnard, Michael Cohen, Rayna Denison, Martin Flanagan, Sophie Geoffroy-Menoux, Mel Gibson, Kerry Gough, Jonathan Gray, Craig Hight, Derek Johnson, Pascal Lefevre, Paul M. Malone, Neil Rae, Aldo J. Regalado, Jan van der Putten, and David Wilt In Film and Comic Books contributors analyze the problems of adapting one medium to another; the translation of comics aesthetics into film; audience expectations, reception, and reaction to comic book-based films; and the adaptation of films into comics. A wide range of comic/film adaptations are explored, including superheroes (Spider-Man), comic strips (Dick Tracy), realist and autobiographical comics (American Splendor; Ghost World), and photo-montage comics (Mexico's El Santo). Essayists discuss films beginning with the 1978 Superman. That success led filmmakers to adapt a multitude of comic books for the screen including Marvel's Uncanny X-Men, the Amazing Spider-Man, Blade, and the Incredible Hulk as well as alternative graphic novels such as From Hell, V for Vendetta, and Road to Perdition. Essayists also discuss recent works from Mexico, France, Germany, and Malaysia.
Films, Graphic Novels & Visuals
Title | Films, Graphic Novels & Visuals PDF eBook |
Author | Daniela Elsner |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 3643903901 |
This book brings together two main disciplines, namely cultural studies and language education - both of which share a long standing interest in films, multimodal text-forms, and visuals. It highlights the increasing impact of visuals and multimodal texts on our perception of the world, our discourse behavior, and how this calls for a change in methodologies and media to be used in foreign language classrooms. The book helps to orientate educators in schools and teachers at universities within the broad concept of a multiliteracies approach and to contextualize it with regard to teaching and learning English as a foreign language. (Series: Foreign Language Teaching in Global Perspective / Fremdsprachendidaktik in Globaler Perspektive - Vol. 2)
Teaching Visual Literacy
Title | Teaching Visual Literacy PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Frey |
Publisher | Corwin Press |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 2008-01-09 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1412953111 |
A collection of nine essays that describes strategies for teaching visual literacy by using graphic novels, comics, anime, political cartoons, and picture books.
Super Graphic
Title | Super Graphic PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Leong |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 2013-09-24 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1452135274 |
The comic book universe is adventurous, mystifying, and filled with heroes, villains, and cosplaying Comic-Con attendees. This book by one of Wired magazine's art directors traverses the graphic world through a collection of pie charts, bar graphs, timelines, scatter plots, and more. Super Graphic offers readers a unique look at the intricate and sometimes contradictory storylines that weave their way through comic books, and shares advice for navigating the pages of some of the most popular, longest-running, and best-loved comics and graphic novels out there. From a colorful breakdown of the DC Comics reader demographic to a witty Venn diagram of superhero comic tropes and a Chris Ware sadness scale, this book charts the most arbitrary and monumental characters, moments, and equipment of the wide world of comics. Plus, this is the fixed format version, which includes high-resolution images.
Baby Bjornstrand
Title | Baby Bjornstrand PDF eBook |
Author | Renée French |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Comic books, strips, etc |
ISBN | 9781927668139 |
Baby Bjornstrand is like a monster movie written by Beckett, and presented in delightfully delicate, and slightly diabolical, pencil drawings.
All You Need Is Kill
Title | All You Need Is Kill PDF eBook |
Author | Hiroshi Sakurazaka,Nick Mamatas |
Publisher | VIZ Media LLC |
Total Pages | 97 |
Release | 2014-05-06 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1421577240 |
When the alien Mimics invade, soldier Keiji Kiriya is killed, easily, on the battlefield. But he wakes up the previous morning as if nothing happened and must fight the battle again...and again...and again. Teamed up with the mysterious female fighter known as the Full Metal Bitch, Keiji must figure out how to stop the cycle—and what role his new and deadly ally plays in the fight to save Earth. Author Nick Mamatas (Bullettime, Love Is the Law) and artist Lee Ferguson (Miranda Mercury, Green Arrow/Black Canary) give Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s mind-bending alien invasion tale a bold new look in the official comic adaptation of the original novel. Now a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise! -- VIZ Media
Understanding Comics
Title | Understanding Comics PDF eBook |
Author | Scott McCloud |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 1994-04-27 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 006097625X |
Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.