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Call No: 753.5 PER
Author: Perren, Alisa; Steirer, Gregory
Edition: 2021
Place: London
Publisher: bfi Publishing
PhysDes: 250 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; COMIC STRIPS; COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS IN FILMS; SUPERHEROES IN FILMS; MARVEL; MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT; SUPERMAN IN FILMS
Summary: 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. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9781844579419
Contents: Introduction: The More Things Change…: The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood in the Twenty-First Century -- 1 Comics Pros Go to Hollywood: The Historical Evolution of the Comics-Hollywood Relationship -- 2 Comic Books and the Economics of Intellectual Property Production -- 3 Drawing Lines: The Place of Comic Book Artists and Writers in Hollywood -- 4 Synergy in Theory and in Practice: Comic Books and the Contemporary Media Conglomerate -- 5 Organizational (Dis-)Integration: Publisher-Hollywood Relationships in the Twenty-First Century -- 6 From Dental Floss to Dental Tape: The Strange Case of Digital Comics -- Distribution -- Afterword: Days of Future Present: The View from 2020

Call No: 772 FUR
Author: Furniss, Maureen
Edition: 2017
Place: London
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
PubDate: 2017
PhysDes: 464 pages : illustrated ; 28 cm
Subject: ANIMATION; PRE-CINEMA HISTORY; ART AND THE CINEMA; DISNEY, WALT; EXPERIMENTAL FILMS; COMPUTERIZED ANIMATION AND SPECIAL EFFECTS; STOP-MOTION TECHNIQUE; JAPAN; MIYAZAKI, HAYAO; UPA; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS IN FILMS; COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS ON TV; SVANKMAJER, JAN
Summary: Maureen Furniss surveys the cultural, political and economic context of how this dynamic industry evolved, emphasizing both artistic and technical achievements from around the world – from Hollywood to Tokyo, from Moscow to Sydney. Featuring a timeline for each of its six parts, Animation: The Global History provides readers with a clear and accessible chronology of events. A ‘Global Storyline’, highlighting the major themes of the era, opens each chapter, and an end-of-book glossary defines key terms used throughout the book. Topics include: Development of animation; Growth of the studio system; Stylistic differences between the major studios; Modernist animation; Animation in World War II; International animation; Experimental animation; Television animation; Animation in art and video games. -- publisher's web site
ISBN: 9780500252178

Call No: 753.5 MSC
Author: McSweeney, Terence
Source: US/UK
Place: London
Publisher: Wallflower Press published by Columbia University Press
PubDate: c2018
PhysDes: vii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject: SUPERHEROES IN FILMS; HEROS IN FILMS; COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS IN FILMS; CRITICISM; MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT; IRON MAN (US, Jon Favreau, 2008); IRON MAN 2 (US, Jon Favreau, 2010); THOR (US, Kenneth Branagh, 2011); INCREDIBLE HULK, THE (US, Louis Leterrier, 2008); CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (US, Joe Johnston, 2011); AVENGERS, THE (US, Joss Whedon, 2012); IRON MAN 3 (US/CN, Shane Black, 2013); THOR: THE DARK WORLD (US, Alan Taylor, 2013); CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (US, Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, 2014); GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (US/UK, James Gunn, 2014); ANT-MAN (US, Peyton Reed, 2015); AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (US, Joss Whedon, 2015); CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (US, Anthony Russo/Joe Russo, 2016)
Summary: "We are living in the age of the superhero and we cannot deny it. Avengers Assemble! is a vibrant and theoretically informed interrogation of one of the defining and most financially successful film franchises of the new millennium. In the first single-authored monograph on the topic of the Marvel cinematic universe, this book asks, "Why has the superhero genre reemerged so emphatically in recent years?" In an age where people have stopped going to the cinema as frequently as they used to, they returned to it in droves for the superhero film. What is it about these films that has resonated with audiences all around the globe? Are they just disposable pop culture artifacts or might they have something interesting to say about the fears and anxieties of the world we live in today? Beginning with Iron Man in 2008, this study provocatively explores both the cinematic and the televisual branches of the series across ten dynamic and original chapters from a diverse range of critical perspectives which analyse their status as an embodiment of the changing industrial practices of the blockbuster film and their symbolic potency as affective cultural artifacts that are profoundly immersed in the turbulent political climate of the era in which they were made." -- BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also issued online
ISBN: 9780231186254
Donation: Senses of Cinema
Contents: 1. 'That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it ... and it's worked out pretty well so far' : The Stark doctrine in Iron Man and Iron Man 2 -- 2. Allegorical narratives of gods and monsters : Thor and The Incredible Hulk -- 3. State fantasy and the superhero : (Mis)remembering World War II in Captain America : The First Avenger -- 4. 'Seeing ... still working on believing!' : The ethics and aesthetics of destruction in The Avengers -- 5. 'Nothing's been the same since New York' : Ideological continuity and change in Iron Man 3 and Thor : The Dark World -- 6. 'The world has changed and none of us can go back' : The illusory moral ambiguities of the Post-9/11 superhero in Captain America : The Winter Soldier -- 7. Blurring the boundaries of genre and gender in Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man -- 8. 'Isn't that why we fight? So we can end the fight and go home?' : The enduring American monomyth in Avengers : Age of Ultron -- 9. 'What does S.H.I.E.L.D. stand for?' : The MCU on the small screen in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Marvel's Agent Carter -- 10. The necessary vigilantism of the defenders : Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist.

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; BLOCKBUSTERS
Author: Shearer, Geoff
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: BLOCKBUSTERS; MONSTERS IN FILMS; MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT; WARNER BROS.; COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS IN FILMS
Summary: Looking at the trend of blockbuster Hollywood films that use storylines and characters from other films to create crossover universes. Some of the key studios undertaking this include: Marvel Entertainment, Warner Brothers DC, Legendary Pictures, and Unviersal Studios

Call No: 753.5 BUR
Author: Burke, Liam
Source: US
Place: Jackson
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
PubDate: c2015
PhysDes: viii, 372 pages ; 24 cm
Subject: ADAPTATIONS; MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT; CARTOONS; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS IN FILMS; COMIC STRIPS
Summary: "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" -- LIBRARIES AUSTRALIA
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 9781628462036
Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- The Golden Age of Comic Book Filmmaking -- The Comic Book Movie Genre -- Fans, Fidelity, and the Grammar of Value -- A Comic Aesthetic -- How to Adapt Comics the Marvel Way -- the future of the comic book movie -- North American box-office totals for comic book film adaptations -- notes -- works cited -- index --

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; DIGITAL CLIPPINGS FILE
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS IN FILMS
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Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; HEROINES IN FILMS
Author: Lewis, Jemima
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: WOMEN IN FILMS; HEROINES IN FILMS; COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS IN FILMS
Summary: Opinion piece regarding the lack of female superhero characters to take meaningful roles in film and tv and why this needs to happen, particularly for girls who don't have any female superheroes to look up to. Some information in here about Wonder Woman

Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; BLOCKBUSTERS. USA
Author: Shearer, Geoff
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: BLOCKBUSTERS. USA; MONSTERS IN FILMS; COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS IN FILMS; ACTION FILMS
Summary: Looking at the proliferation of big budget film franchises such as Marvel, DC as well as monster and supernatural series being promoted by various studios
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Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; BOX OFFICE. AUSTRALIA
Author: Maddox, Garry
PhysDes: Clippings File Article
Subject: COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS IN FILMS; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; HERO IN FILMS; BOX OFFICE. AUSTRALIA
Summary: Snippet on the very high box office takings in Australia for comic Superhero films in 2016