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Superhero Synergies


en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 mar 2014
In the age of digital media, superheroes are no longer confined to comic books and graphic novels. Their stories are now featured in films, video games, digital comics, television programs, and more. In a single year alone, films featuring Batman, Spider-Man, and the Avengers have appeared on the big screen. Popular media no longer exists in isolation, but converges into complex multidimensional entities. As a result, traditional ideas about the relationship between varying media have come under striking revision. Although this convergence is apparent in many genres, perhaps nowhere is it more persistent, more creative, or more varied than in the superhero genre. Superhero Synergies: Comic Book Characters Go Digital explores this developing relationship between superheroes and various forms of media, examining how the superhero genre, which was once limited primarily to a single medium, has been developed into so many more. Essays in this volume engage with several of the most iconic heroes-including Batman, Hulk, and Iron Man-through a variety of academic disciplines such as industry studies, gender studies, and aesthetic analysis to develop an expansive view of the genre's potency. The contributors to this volume engage cinema, comics, video games, and even live stage shows to instill readers with new ways of looking at, thinking about, and experiencing some of contemporary media's most popular texts. This unique approach to the examination of digital media and superhero studies provides new and valuable readings of well-known texts and practices. Intended for both academics and fans of the superhero genre, this anthology introduces the innovative and growing synergy between traditional comic books and digital media.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781442232112
ISBN-10: 1442232110
Pagini: 252
Ilustrații: 17 black & white halftones
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield

Notă biografică

James N. Gilmore is a graduate student in the Cinema and Media Studies program at the University of California, Los Angeles. Matthias Stork is a graduate student in the Cinema and Media Studies program at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work has appeared in Frames Cinema Journal, Mediascape, and Media Fields Journal, as well as several anthologies.

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This collection of essays explores the developing relationship between superheroes and various forms of media, examining how the superhero genre, which was once limited primarily to a single medium (comic books/graphic novels) has been developed into video games, digital comics, films, Internet criticism, novelizations, television programs, the fanboy phenomenon, and many other forms of media.