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Written in straightforward, jargon-free language, A Concise Dictionary of Comics guides students, researchers, readers, and educators of all ages and at all levels of comics expertise. It provides them with a dictionary that doubles as a compendium of comics scholarship. A Concise Dictionary of Comics provides clear and informative definitions for each term. It includes twenty-five witty illustrations and pairs most defined terms with references to books, articles, book chapters, and other relevant critical sources. All references are dated and listed in an extensive, up-to-date bibliography of comics scholarship. Each term is also categorized according to type in an index of thematic groupings. This organization serves as a pedagogical aid for teachers and students learning about a specific facet of comics studies and as a research tool for scholars who are unfamiliar with a particular term but know what category it falls into. These features make A Concise Dictionary of Comics especially useful for critics, students, teachers, and researchers, and a vital reference to anyone else who wants to learn more about comics.

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"Comic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial lens. Comic books wielded their influence from the margins and in-between spaces of the entertainment business for half a century before moving to the center of mainstream film and television production. This extraordinary history begins at the medium's origin in the 1930s, when comics were a reviled, disorganized, and lowbrow mass medium. Visiting critical moments along the way--market crashes, corporate takeovers, upheavals in distribution, and financial transformations--Shawna Kidman concludes this revisionist history in the early 2000s, when Hollywood had fully incorporated comic book properties and strategies into its business models. The medium had transformed into the heavily exploited, exceedingly corporate, and highly esteemed niche art form we know so well today"--Provided by publisher.

Motion pictures and comic books --- Comic books, strips, etc --- History --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Motion pictures and comic books - United States - History - 20th century --- Comic books, strips, etc. - United States - History - 20th century

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Les processus transmédiaux et adaptatifs dans la condition médiatique actuelle constituent le noyau de cet ouvrage. D'un côté, il s'agit de situer les processus adaptatifs dans un contexte technologique, qui, par sa nature, opère quotidiennement des formes d'adaptation, et cela même de façon involontaire. D'un autre côté, il s'agit de mettre en lumière non seulement le phénomène de la transmédialité mais également la collectivisation de l'acte narratif qu'il induit de plus en plus souvent.Or, il semble que ce phénomène soit demeuré en arrière-plan dans le contexte médiatique de cette dernière décennie. Entre ces deux intérêts, comme pivot de cette collaboration, se trouve l'analyse des relations entre le médium bédéique et le vaste univers médiatique. En effet, la bande dessinée représente, de l'avis de l'équipe directrice, un moyen de construire des espaces narratifs très particuliers, et son étude, contextualisée dans l'ère numérique, ouvre des voies indispensables pour mieux comprendre et cerner la manière dont les espaces narratifs numériques seront construits dans un futur proche.Ainsi ce riche travail collectif est-il, à ce titre, l'un des tout premiers à être consacré intégralement à ce sujet. Construit en deux parties, l'une traitant des adaptations littéraires en bandes dessinées, l'autre des adaptations cinématographiques de bandes dessinées, il mêle approches théoriques et analyses d'oeuvres spécifiques et ouvre la porte à la fois d'une pratique culturelle en perpétuelle transformation et d'un champ de recherche encore plein d'avenir.

Motion pictures and comic books --- Literature --- Motion pictures and literature --- History and criticism --- Bandes dessinées --- Adaptations --- Adaptations. --- Literature - Comic books, strips, etc. - History and criticism --- Transmédia --- Comic books, strips, etc.

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The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood traces the evolving relationship between the American comic book industry and Hollywood from the launch of X-Men, Spider-Man, and Smallville in the early 2000s through the ascent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Arrowverse, and the Walking Dead Universe in the 2010s. Perren and Steirer illustrate how the American comic book industry simultaneously has functioned throughout the first two decades of the twenty-first century as a relatively self-contained business characterized by its own organizational structures, business models, managerial discourses, production cultures, and professional identities even as it has remained dependent on Hollywood for revenue from IP licensing. The authors' expansive view of the industry includes not only a discussion of the "Big Two," Marvel/Disney and DC Comics/Time Warner, but also a survey of the larger comics ecosystem. Other key industry players, including independent publishers BOOM! Studios, IDW, and Image, digital distributor ComiXology, and management-production company Circle of Confusion, all receive attention. Drawing from interviews, fieldwork, archival research, and trade analysis, The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood provides a road map to understanding the operations of the comic book industry while also offering new models for undertaking trans- and inter-industrial analysis.

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"In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed into Hollywood's leading genre. From superheroes to Spartan warriors, The Comic Book Film Adaptation offers the first dedicated study to examine how comic books moved from the fringes of popular culture to the center of mainstream film production. Through in-depth analysis, industry interviews, and audience research, this book charts the cause-and-effect of this influential trend. It considers the cultural traumas, business demands, and digital possibilities that Hollywood faced at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The industry managed to meet these challenges by exploiting comics and their existing audiences. However, studios were caught off-guard when these comic book fans, empowered by digital media, began to influence the success of these adaptations. Nonetheless, filmmakers soon developed strategies to take advantage of this intense fanbase, while codifying the trend into a more lucrative genre, the comic book movie, which appealed to an even wider audience. Central to this vibrant trend is a comic aesthetic in which filmmakers utilize digital filmmaking technologies to engage with the language and conventions of comics like never before. The Comic Book Film Adaptation explores this unique moment in which cinema is stimulated, challenged, and enriched by the once-dismissed medium of comics"--

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