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J. Baetens, The Film Photonovel. A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations

J. Baetens, The Film Photonovel. A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations

Publié le par Université de Lausanne (Source : Jan Baetens)

Jan Baetens

The Film Photonovel. A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations

 

University of Texas Press, collection "World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction", 2019

EAN13 : 9781477318225

 

PRESENTATION

The first book devoted to the hybrid genre of the film photonovel, applying a comparative textual media framework to a previously overlooked aspect of the history of film and literary adaptation.

 

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.

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