Contributions by Jan Baetens, Alain Boillat, Philippe Bourdier, Laura Caraballo, Thomas Faye, Pierre Floquet, Jean-Paul Gabilliet, Christophe Gelly, Nicolas Labarre, Benoit Mitaine, David Roche, Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot, Dick Tomasovic, and Shannon Wells-Lassagne
Both comics studies and adaptation studies have grown separately over the past twenty years. Yet there are few in-depth studies of comic books and adaptations together. Available for the first time in English, this collection pores over the phenomenon of comic books and adaptation, sifting through comics as both sources and results of adaptation. Essays shed light on the many ways adaptation studies inform research on comic books and content adapted from them. Contributors concentrate on fidelity to the source materials, comparative analysis, forms of media, adaptation and myth, adaptation and intertextuality, as well as adaptation and ideology.
After an introduction that assesses adaptation studies as a framework, the book examines comics adaptations of literary texts as more than just illustrations of their sources. Essayists then focus on adaptations of comics, often from a transmedia perspective. Case studies analyze both famous and lesser-known American, Belgian, French, Italian, and Spanish comics.
Essays investigate specific works, such as Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Castilian epic poem Poema de Mio Cid, Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, French comics artist Jacques Tardi's adaptation 120, rue de la Gare, and Frank Miller's Sin City. In addition to Marvel Comics's blockbusters, topics include various uses of adaptation, comic book adaptations of literary texts, narrative deconstruction of performance and comic book art, and many more.

About the Author
Benoit Mitaine, Avignon, France, is associate professor of Spanish at the Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France. He is coeditor of Lignes de front: Guerre et totalitarisme dans la bande dessinee and Autobiographismes: bande dessinee et representation de soi.|David Roche, Montpellier, France, is professor of film studies at the Universite Toulouse-Jean Jaures, France. He is author of L'Imagination malsaine and Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To?, and editor of Russell Banks: Conversations, the latter two published by University Press of Mississippi.|Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot, Couchey, France, is associate professor of English at the Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France. She has coedited Intimacy in Cinema: Critical Essays on English-Language Films and published widely on English-language cinema.|Aarnoud Rommens is an independent scholar, editor, and translator. He is the author of Joaquin Torres-Garcia: Constructive Universalism and the Inversion of Abstraction and editor of Comics and Abstraction: Narrative by Other Means.


Book Information
ISBN 9781496803375
Author Benoit Mitaine
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint University Press of Mississippi
Publisher University Press of Mississippi
Weight(grams) 505g