The Film Photonovel: A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations
Jan Baetens, "The Film Photonovel: A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations "
English | ISBN: 1477318224 | 2019 | 198 pages | PDF | 118 MB
English | ISBN: 1477318224 | 2019 | 198 pages | PDF | 118 MB
Discarded by archivists and disregarded by scholars despite its cultural impact on post–World War II Europe, the film photonovel represents a unique crossroads. This hybrid medium presented popular films in a magazine format that joined film stills or set pictures with captions and dialogue balloons to re-create a cinematic story, producing a tremendously popular blend of cinema and text that supported more than two dozen weekly or monthly publications.
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