
Published online:
19 May 2016
Published in print:
01 April 2015
Online ISBN:
9781626745193
Print ISBN:
9781628462036
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The Comic Book Movie in the Inter-textual Relay The Comic Book Movie in the Inter-textual Relay
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From Cowboys to Capes From Cowboys to Capes
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Defining the Comic Book Movie Defining the Comic Book Movie
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Protagonists Protagonists
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Verisimilitude Verisimilitude
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Talent and Techniques Talent and Techniques
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Cycles and Trends Cycles and Trends
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Fearful Symmetry: How the Comic Book Movie and Source Material Shape Adaptations Fearful Symmetry: How the Comic Book Movie and Source Material Shape Adaptations
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Conventions and Expectations Conventions and Expectations
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Move into the Mainstream Move into the Mainstream
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The Comic Book Movie Fan The Comic Book Movie Fan
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Cite
Burke, Liam, 'The Comic Book Movie Genre', The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre (Jackson, MS , 2015; online edn, Mississippi Scholarship Online, 19 May 2016), https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781628462036.003.0003, accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
The comic book film adaptation trend ushered in by X-Men in 2000 soon developed into a full-fledged genre. Chapter Two charted the development of this genre and probed its boundaries. Identifying the conventions of these films, the chapter defined the comic-book movie as a genre that follows a vigilante or outsider character engaged in a form of revenge narrative, and is pitched at a heightened reality with a visual style marked by distinctly comic book imagery. Refining earlier genre models with a bacterial growth analogy, the development of this genre was plotted and its next phase was predicted.
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