• Use vocabulary and theoretical frameworks relevant to comics and film to perform detailed scholarly analysis
• Write critically about the relationship between comics and film in terms of aesthetic, cultural, and industrial factors
• Analyse a variety of comics adaptations to understand the diverse ways in which filmmakers have drawn on the form
• Apply ideas learned about film adaptations of comics to critical thinking about the relationship between various media

Indicative readings:

Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics (New York: HarperPerennial, 1994).

Linda Hutcheon, A Theory of Adaptation (New York: Routledge, 2006).

Liam Burke, The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood’s Leading Genre (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015).

Drew Morton, Panel to the Screen: Style, American Film, and Comic Books during the Blockbuster Era (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017).

Blair Davis, Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2017).

Dru Jeffries, Comic Book Film Style: Cinema at 24 Panels per Second (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017).

Ian Gordon, Film and Comic Books (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007).

Jared Gardner, Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020).

Indicative screenings:

Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, 2007)
American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, 2003)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)
Popeye (Robert Altman, 1980)
Hulk (Ang Lee, 2003)
Iron Man (Jon Favreau, 2008)

Not applicable to this module.

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