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Author Baetens, Jan, author

Title The film photonovel : a cultural history of forgotten adaptations / Jan Baetens
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Series World comics and graphic nonfiction series
World comics and graphic nonfiction series.
Contents Excavating the film photonovel -- A brief history of the film photonovel -- Word and image, telling and showing -- Clear grids, blurred lines -- Action? Stop! Pose and movement -- Globalizing the film photonovel? -- Appendix. Publishers and magazines
Summary Discarded by archivists and disregarded by scholars despite its cultural impact on post?World War II Europe, the film photonovel represents a unique crossroads. This hybrid medium presented popular films in a magazine format that joined film stills or set pictures with captions and dialogue balloons to re-create a cinematic story, producing a tremendously popular blend of cinema and text that supported more than two dozen weekly or monthly publications. Illuminating a long-overlooked ?lowbrow? medium with a significant social impact, The Film Photonovel studies the history of the format as a hybrid of film novelizations, drawn novels, and nonfilm photonovels. While the field of adaptation studies has tended to focus on literary adaptations, this book explores how the juxtaposition of words and pictures functioned in this format and how page layout and photo cropping could affect reading. Finally, the book follows the film photonovel's brief history in Latin America and the United States. Adding an important dimension to the interactions between filmmakers and their audiences, this work fills a gap in the study of transnational movie culture
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 19, 2019)
Subject Fotonovelas -- History and criticism
Film adaptations -- History and criticism
Motion pictures and literature.
ART -- Techniques -- Drawing.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Film adaptations
Fotonovelas
Motion pictures and literature
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781477318232
1477318232