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- The first brief, yet academic, history of the genre with coverage ranging from mainstream American superhero films to independent foreign films
- Details the history of comic book movies as they moved from various adaptations to a genre all their own
- Written in an accessible manner equally useful to researchers in the field and general audiences alike
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Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Professor of Film Studies, Coordinator of the Film Studies Program, and Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Richard Graham is an associate professor and Media Services Librarian at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, and a nationally recognized authority on comic books, graphic novels, and comic book movies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Brief History of Comic Book Movies
Authors: Wheeler Winston Dixon, Richard Graham
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47184-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47183-9Published: 16 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83672-0Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47184-6Published: 05 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 98
Topics: Genre, Film History, American Cinema and TV, Asian Cinema and TV, Media and Communication