Comics and Adaptation

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COMICS AND ADAPTATION
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Adapting Adaptation Studies to Comics Studies
PART I: FROM PAGE TO PANEL
	Adaptation: A Writerly Strategy?
	Narrative (De)constructions and the Persistence of the Text: Images of the Cid between Epic Performance and Comics
	Absent Humanity: Personification and Spatialization in “There Will Come Soft Rains”
	Nestor Burma, from Léo Malet to Jacques Tardi, via Jacques-Daniel Norman: 120, rue de la Gare and Its Adaptations
	Doctor Jekyll & Mister Hyde by Mattotti-Kramsky: Shattering Figuration
	In Defense of Freedom of Adaptation: The Case of El hombre descuadernado, an Adaptation of “The Horla”
PART II: FROM PANEL TO SCREEN AND BACK AGAIN
	The Comic Book Effect in the Age of CGI: When Film Adaptations of Comic Books Evoke the Fixity of Their Model
	From Marvel Comics to Marvel Studios: Adaptation, Intermediality, and Contemporary Hollywood Strategies
	Fritz the Cat (1972): From Crumb to Bakshi, Betraying the Author and Translating the Zeitgeist
	Adapting a Graphic Novel into Film: Historicity and the Play of Signs in Corto Maltese : La cour secrète des arcanes (Pascal Morelli, 2002), an Adaptation of Corto Maltese in Siberia by Hugo Pratt
	Sin City (Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, 2005): Improbable Encounters between Embodied and Drawn Characters
	From Screen to Page? Castle (ABC, 2009–2016) and Richard Castle’s Deadly Storm
Contributors
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