May contain graphic material : comic books, graphic novels, and film / M. Keith Booker.

"Since the first Superman film came to the screen in 1978, films adapted from comics have become increasingly important as a film form. M. Keith Booker surveys this development in film history, tracking the movement to a more mature style in comics, and then a more mature style in films about comics...

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Main Author: Booker, M. Keith
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.
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MSU: In dust jacket.
Physical Description:xl, 210 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: From panel to frame
  • The Superman film franchise
  • The Batman film franchise
  • The Crow
  • Men inBlack and Men in Black II
  • The Blade trilogy
  • The X-Men film franchise
  • Ghost World
  • From Hell
  • The Spider-Man film franchise
  • Road to Perdition
  • American Splendor
  • Hellboy
  • Sin City A History of Violence
  • V for Vendetta