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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: 722.81 CIN
Author: Bougie, Robin (ed.)
Edition: Fourth edition
Source: UK
Place: Surrey, England
Publisher: FAB Press
PubDate: 2016
PhysDes: 1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Series: Cinema Sewer; 1
Subject: PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS; EROTIC FILMS; HORROR FILMS; SEX IN FILMS; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; CRITICISM
Summary: "A mind-melting compilation of gonzo writing, illustration and comics about the most insane, sexy, awkward, cheesy, hilarious, upsetting and jaw-dropping movies in the history of film, 'Cinema Sewer' joyously celebrates the sleaziest aspects of the moviegoing experience, whilst delving deep into bizarre cinematic history. Author and artist Robin Bougie dives deep to the bottom of the cesspool of horror and sexploitation , doing so in a distinctive manner that has made him infamous amongst a loyal following of cult film fans. The best of the first 12 long-out-of-print issues of the magazine have been exhaustively revised and collated here, along with almost 100 pages of never-before-seen material. " -- BOOK BACK COVER
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781903254455

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
PhysDes: Clippings
Subject: COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA

Call No: 735.1 SPR
Author: Springer, Claudia
Source: US
Place: Austin, TX
Publisher: University of Texas Press
PubDate: c1996
PhysDes: x, 182 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: AUTOMOBILES IN FILMS; BODY IN FILMS; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; COMPUTERS AND THE CINEMA; COMPUTERS IN FILMS; COMPUTERS AND TV; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND TV; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; GENDER AND TELEVISION; POSTMODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; ROBOTS IN FILMS; ROBOTS ON TV; SCIENCE AND THE CINEMA; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; SEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; TECHNOLOGY AND TV; TECHNOLOGY IN FILMS; TECHNOLOGY ON TV; VIRTUAL REALITY; BLADE RUNNER (US, Ridley Scott, 1982); EVE OF DESTRUCTION (US, Duncan Gibbins, 1991); LAWNMOWER MAN, THE (US, Brett Leonard, 1992); ROBOCOP (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1987); TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991); TERMINATOR, THE (US, James Cameron, 1984)
Summary: "The love affair between humans and the machines that have made us faster and more powerful has expanded into cyberspace, where computer technology seems to offer both the promise of heightened erotic fulfilment and the threat of human obsolescence. In this pathfinding study, Claudia Springer explores the techno-erotic imagery in recent films, cyberpunk fiction, comic books, television, software, and writing on virtual reality and artificial intelligence to reveal how these futuristic images actually encode current debates concerning gender roles and sexuality." -- BOOK BLURB
Notes: Includes index
ISBN: 0292776977
Donation: M.S. Counihan

Call No: 632.2 FEL
Author: Fell, John L. (John Lewis), 1927
Edition: 1st ed
Place: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
PubDate: 1986
PhysDes: xx, 284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject: NARRATIVE IN FILMS; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915); COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, THE (US, Edwin S. Porter, 1903); MELIES, GEORGES
Notes: Previously published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1974. -- Includes appendices -- Bibliography: p. 258-271 -- Index: p. 273 -284 -- c1974
ISBN: 0520053680 (paper)
LON: abn90010427; 6864524
Contents: Introduction -- I. VERBAL ARTS : 1. Mise en scene -- 2. Dissolves by gaslight -- 3. It is not a good book, my son -- 4. Space, time, and Victorian prose -- II. GRAPHIC ARTS : 5. Mr. Griffith, meet Winsor McCay -- 6. The picture in our heads -- 7. Art, photography, and the shape of things to come -- III. THE MOVIES : 8. Ten cent palace life -- 9. A particular phase of perception -- APPENDICES : I. Early development of American sheet music -- II. Twenty representative British and American melodramas -- III. Subliterature in the Nineteenth Century -- IV. Lenses -- V. The phasmatrope -- VI. Nineteenth-century developments in printing -- VII. Winsor McCay -- VIII. Musical machines -- IX. Chronological listing in Niver In the Beginning Collection.

Call No: 79SIN MIL
Author: Miller, Frank; Rodriguez, Roger
Source: US
Place: [United States]
Publisher: Troublemaker Publishing
PubDate: c2005
PhysDes: 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Subject: ADAPTATIONS; ADVERTISING FOR FILMS; ART AND THE CINEMA; ART DIRECTION; AUTOMOBILES IN FILMS; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY; COSTUME DESIGNING; COSTUMES; MAKE-UP; MERCHANDISING; POSTERS; PRE-PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION; SCRIPTS; SET DESIGNING; SPECIAL EFFECTS; MILLER, FRANK; RODRIGUEZ, ROBERT; SIN CITY (US, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, 2005)
Summary: "With contributions from creators, cast, and crew, FRANK MILLER'S SIN CITY: THE MAKING OF THE MOVIE covers the production, from page to screen and everything in between. Featuring Rodriguez's screenplay adaptation of the original graphic novels, exclusive behind-the-scenes photos, never before seen art and conceptual designs, interviews and commentary, this is the perfect companion to both the original graphic novels and the movie."
Notes: Includes poster art and promotional material for the film; Includes photo credits
ISBN: 1933104007; 9781933104003
Donation: Simon Wincer
Contents: Introduction by Frank Miller -- The origins of Sin City -- Approaching Sin City -- Troublemaker Digital on previsualization -- The Hard Goodbye -- Props -- KNB -- The Big Fat Kill -- Frank Miller's sketchbook -- Wardrobe -- Cars -- That Yellow Bastard -- Poster art -- Crew -- Photo credits

Author: Stephenson, Chris
PhysDes: Article
Subject: COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT
Summary: Stephenson loves comics in both traditional formats and new media because, despite being super heroes, the characters are eternally relatable and have a valiable lesson for content

Call No: N79MAD MIL
Author: Miller, George (story); Lathouris, Nico (script); Sexton, Mark (script); Spicer, Michael (color); Kindzierski,Lovern (color); Robins, Clem (letters)
Source: US
Place: Burbank, CA
Publisher: DC Comics
PubDate: c2015
PhysDes: 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm
Series: Mad Max
Subject: COMIC STRIPS; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; UTOPIA IN FILMS; MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979); MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (AT/US, George Miller, 2015); MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (AT, George Miller & George Ogilvie, 1985); ROAD WARRIOR, THE (AT, George Miller, 1981) SEE MAD MAX II; MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981)
Summary: "George Miller, Nico Lathouris and Mark Sexton are writing four prelude stories that follow leading characters Nux, Immortan Joe, Furiosa, and a two-part story about Mad Max. Nico Lathouris serves as a co-writer on the film while Mark Sexton serves as storyboard and concept artist for Mad Max: Fury Road. Interior artists working on these projects include Riccardo Burchielli, Leandro Fernandez, Tristan Jones and Mark Sexton, while covers will be illustrated by Tommy Lee Edwards. Collects MAD MAX: FURY ROAD: NUX & IMMORTAN JOE #1, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD: FURIOSA #1, and MAD MAX: FURY ROAD: MAD MAX #1-2" "
Notes: Formerly CIP; This is a graphic novel
ISBN: 9781401259051

Call No: 772(520):737.0 MEC
Author: Lunning, Frenchy
Source: US
Place: Minneapolis; London
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
PubDate: c2009
PhysDes: xiv, 338 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Series: Mechademia ; v. 4
Subject: ANIMATION; ANIMATION. JAPAN; COMIC STRIPS; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; JAPAN; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. JAPAN; VIDEO GAMES; GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (JA, Isao Takahata, 1989); HOTARV NO HAKA (JA, Isao Takahata, 1988); NEON GENESIS EVANGELION (JA, 199?)
Summary: "The themes of war and time are intertwined in unique ways in Japanese culture, freighted as that nation is with the multiple legacies of World War II: the country's militarization, its victories and defeats, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the uneasy pacifism imposed by the victors. Delving into topics ranging from the production of wartime propoganda to the multimedia adaptations of romance narrative, contributors to the fourth volume in the Mechademia series address the political, cultural, and technological continuum between war and the everyday time of orderly social productivity that is reflected, confronted, and changed in manga, anime, and other forms of Japanese popular culture." -- BOOK BLURB
ISBN: 9780816667499
Contents: -- preface: war/time / Thomas Lamarre -- [Part 1]. Legacies of sovereignty. The filmic time of coloniality: on Shinkai Makoto's The Place promised in our early days / Gavin Walker -- Theorizing manga: nationalism and discourse on the role of wartime manga / Rei Okamoto Inouye -- Transcending the victim's history: Takahata Isao's Grave of the fireflies / Wendy Goldberg. [Part 2]. Control room. Gothic politics: Oshii, war, and life without death / Tom Looser -- Oshii Mamoru's Patlabor 2: terror, theatricality, and exceptions that prove the rule / Mark Anderson -- Waiting for the messiah: the becoming-myth of Evangelion and Densha otoko / Christophe Thouny -- War by metaphor in Densha otoko / Michael Fisch. [Part 3]. History/memory. Imagined history, fading memory: mastering narrative in Final Fantasy X / Dennis Washburn -- Haunted travelogue: hometowns, ghost towns, and memories of war / Michael Dylan Foster -- Three views of the rising sun, obliquely: Keiji Nakazawa's A-bomb, Osamu Tezuka's Adolf, and Yoshinori Kobayashi's Apologia / Sheng-Mei Ma -- Virtual creation, simulated destruction, and manufactured memory at the Art Mecho Museum in Second life / Christopher Bolton. [Part 4]. Genre violence. Ninja, Hidden Christians, and the two Ferreiras: On Endo Shusaku and Yamada Futaro / Takayuki Tatsumi ; translated by Seth Jacobowitz -- Monsters at war: the great Yo¯kai Wars, 1968-2005 / Zilia Papp -- From Jusuheru to Jannu: girl knights and christian witches in the work of Miuchi Suzue / Rebecca Suter. [Part 5]. Mobilization/Domestication. Empire through the eyes of a Yapoo: male abjection in the cult classic Beast Yapoo / Christine Marran -- Nippon ex machina: Japanese postwar identity in robot anime and the case of UFO Robo Grendizer / Marco Pellitteri -- Kobayashi Yoshinori is dead: imperial war/sick liberal peace/neoliberal class war / Mark Driscoll -- Manga: a comic interlude from Darumasan-ga-koronda, "Land mine in Central Park" / Yoji Sakate ; translated by Manami Shima, art by Chinami Sango -- Review and commentary -- two phases of Japanese illustrated fiction / Charles Shiro Inouye -- paradise lost...and found? / Paul Jackson -- molten hot: Japanese gal subcultures and fashions / Theresa M. Winge -- monstrous toys of capitalism / Brent Allison -- if Casshern doesn't do it, who will? / Deborah Shamoon -- psychoanalytic cyberpunk midsummer-night's dreamtime: Kon Satoshi's Paprika / Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog -- Torendo -- interview with Murase Shuko and Sato Dai / Deborah Scally, Angela Drummond - Mathews and Marc Hairston --

Call No: 62:61[741.5] TRE
Author: Trembles, Rick
Source: UK
Place: Surrey
Publisher: FAB Press
PubDate: 2004
PhysDes: 191 p. : 24 cm
Subject: CRITICISM; CARTOONS; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; TITANIC (US, James Cameron, 1997); POSSESSION (FR/GW, Andrzej Zulawski, 1981); NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (US, Charles Laughton, 1955); URBAN LEGEND (US, Jamie Blanks, 1998); BIG CHILL, THE (US, Lawrence Kasdan, 1983)
Summary: From the pages of free weekly The Montreal Mirror comes the best of Rick Trembles’ distinctive hybrid film-review/column/comic strip Motion Picture Purgatory! A novel new form of film criticism, the medium of sequential art lends itself well to the dissection of motion pictures; frequently resembling storyboards, plotline trajectories are diagrammatically tracked via elaborate cross-sections and aerial views with an obsessive attention to detail! Trembles has developed a worldwide reputation over the years distributing his own comix and appearing in a variety of anthologies including Robert Crumb’s Weirdo, Fantagraphics’ Pictopia and Danny Hellman’s Legal Action Comix! [Taken from back cover.]
ISBN: 1903254302

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