Coming to Life: A Review of Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page
This book review provides an overview of 'Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page' by Blair Davis (Rutgers University Press, 2017) a book which examines the reciprocal adaptations of film into comics and comics into films from 1930 to 1960. This review argues that 'Movie Comics�...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2017-03-01
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| Series: | The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship |
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| Online Access: | http://www.comicsgrid.com/articles/105 |
| Summary: | This book review provides an overview of 'Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page' by Blair Davis (Rutgers University Press, 2017) a book which examines the reciprocal adaptations of film into comics and comics into films from 1930 to 1960. This review argues that 'Movie Comics' provides a useful and finely-textured cultural history of that phenomenon, which help contextualize scholarly studies of contemporary adaptations and transmedia constructions. |
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| ISSN: | 2048-0792 |