Films, Graphic Novels & Visuals
Title | Films, Graphic Novels & Visuals PDF eBook |
Author | Daniela Elsner |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 3643903901 |
This book brings together two main disciplines, namely cultural studies and language education - both of which share a long standing interest in films, multimodal text-forms, and visuals. It highlights the increasing impact of visuals and multimodal texts on our perception of the world, our discourse behavior, and how this calls for a change in methodologies and media to be used in foreign language classrooms. The book helps to orientate educators in schools and teachers at universities within the broad concept of a multiliteracies approach and to contextualize it with regard to teaching and learning English as a foreign language. (Series: Foreign Language Teaching in Global Perspective / Fremdsprachendidaktik in Globaler Perspektive - Vol. 2)
Understanding Comics
Title | Understanding Comics PDF eBook |
Author | Scott McCloud |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1994-04-27 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 006097625X |
Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.
Film and Comic Books
Title | Film and Comic Books PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Gordon |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2010-01-06 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 160473809X |
In Film and Comic Books contributors analyze the problems of adapting one medium to another; the translation of comics aesthetics into film; audience expectations, reception, and reaction to comic book-based films; and the adaptation of films into comics. A wide range of comic/film adaptations are explored, including superheroes (Spider-Man), comic strips (Dick Tracy), realist and autobiographical comics (American Splendor, Ghost World), and photo-montage comics (Mexico's El Santo). Essayists discuss films beginning with the 1978 Superman. That success led filmmakers to adapt a multitude of comic books for the screen including Marvel's Uncanny X-Men, the Amazing Spider-Man, Blade, and the Incredible Hulk as well as alternative graphic novels such as From Hell, V for Vendetta, and Road to Perdition. Essayists also discuss recent works from Mexico, France, Germany, and Malaysia. Essays from Timothy P. Barnard, Michael Cohen, Rayna Denison, Martin Flanagan, Sophie Geoffroy-Menoux, Mel Gibson, Kerry Gough, Jonathan Gray, Craig Hight, Derek Johnson, Pascal Lef?vre, Paul M. Malone, Neil Rae, Aldo J. Regalado, Jan van der Putten, and David Wilt Ian Gordon is associate professor of history and convenor of American studies at the National University of Singapore. Mark Jancovich is professor of film and television studies at the University of East Anglia. Matthew P. McAllister is associate professor of film, video, and media studies at Pennsylvania State University.
May Contain Graphic Material
Title | May Contain Graphic Material PDF eBook |
Author | M. Keith Booker |
Publisher | Praeger |
Pages | 726 |
Release | 2007-10-30 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
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Since the first Superman film came to the screen in 1978, films adapted from comics have become increasingly important as a film form. Since that time, advances in computer-generated special effects have significantly improved the ability of film to capture the style and action of comics, producing film such as X-men and Spider-man.
Teaching Visual Literacy
Title | Teaching Visual Literacy PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Frey |
Publisher | Corwin Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2008-01-09 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1412953111 |
A collection of nine essays that describes strategies for teaching visual literacy by using graphic novels, comics, anime, political cartoons, and picture books.
Baby Bjornstrand
Title | Baby Bjornstrand PDF eBook |
Author | Renée French |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Comic books, strips, etc |
ISBN | 9781927668139 |
Baby Bjornstrand is like a monster movie written by Beckett, and presented in delightfully delicate, and slightly diabolical, pencil drawings.
The Other Side of the Wall
Title | The Other Side of the Wall PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Schwartz |
Publisher | Graphic Universe& 8482 |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1467760285 |
This graphic novel memoir chronicles a family's difficult journey to get to the other side of the Berlin Wall.