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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Television adaptations -- History and criticism.
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Film adaptations -- History and criticism.
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1 online resource (xvi, 247 pages) |
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| Contents |
Foreword. On metahumans and metatexts / Henry Jenkins -- Part one: adaptation, remediation, and transmedia. "Nothing ever ends": how Watchmen paratexts became part of DC Comics's "deep dive" strategy / Jayson Quearry ; Flickers of black and white: cinema and genre in Watchmen and Doomsday Clock / Dru Jeffries ; Trust in the journey: HBO's Watchmen and superhero mythology / Mark C. E. Peterson and Chris Yogerst ; "An expensive bit of fan fiction": negotiating canon and multiplicty in Watchmen / Laura E. Felschow ; "Fucking Oklahoma": peteypedia as paratextual transaction and its impact on the aesthetic experience of Watchmen's transmedia storytelling / Zachary J. A. Rondinelli ; What's inside the closet: costume as critique in Watchmen and its adaptations / Alisia Grace Chase -- Part two: race and American history. Sister Night and her squad: HBO's Watchemen and the healing power of speculative fiction / Chamara Moore ; "It is difficult to be a white man in America": white male supremacy and the alt-right in HBO's Watchmen / Brian Faucette ; "Who watches the watchmen": situating HBO's Watchmen as (post)quality television / Rusty Hatchell ; Reinscribing racial power within HBO's Watchmen (2019) / David Stanley and Sarah Pawlak Stanley ; "Plenty of room to swing a rope": Watchmen and the racial politics of place / Curtis Marez ; "Nostalgia is a hard pill to swallow": intergenerational and historical racial trauma / Apryl Alexander ; "This extraordinary being": alternative archives of black life in HBO's Watchmen / Brandy Monk-Payton -- Part three: nostalgia and trauma. The epideictic use of restoritive nostalgia in Doomsday Clock / Jeffrey S. J. Kirchoff ; The adaptation of narrative and musical source material in Watchmen (2019) / James Denis McGlynn ; Diverse family structures in Watchmen: who's in this family tree anyway? / Tracy E. Moran Vozar ; "So you've taken someone else's nostalgia": trauma, nostalgia, and American hero stories / Lindsay Hallam -- Afterword. On "unadaptability" (or, requiem for a squid) / Suzanne Scott. |
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Morton, Drew, 1983- editor.
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Jenkins, Henry, writer of foreword.
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Scott, Suzanne, writer of afterword.
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| ISBN |
1496842219 electronic book |
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9781496842183 electronic book |
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1496842189 electronic book |
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9781496842190 electronic book |
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1496842197 electronic book |
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9781496842206 electronic book |
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1496842200 electronic book |
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9781496842213 (electronic bk.) |
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9781496842169 hardcover |
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9781496842176 paperback |
| Standard # |
10.14325/mississippi/9781496842169.001.0001 doi |
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