This textbook provides the first foundational introduction to the practice of analysing
multimodality, covering the full breadth of media and situations in which multimodality needs …

In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of
unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second …

Publishing alongside the world premiere of Christopher Nolan's third Batman film" The Dark
Knight Rises", Will Brooker's new book explores Batman's twenty-first century incarnations …

Victimhood drives morality and politics. Morality evolved to protect from victimization, and
today morality still revolves around concerns about victimhood and harm. Unfortunately …

In the same way that Stallone and Schwarzenegger played film heroes who came to
embody the values of Ronald Reagans aggressive conservative agenda in the 1980s, the …

Hollywood's live-action superhero films currently dominate the worldwide box-office, with the
characters enjoying more notoriety through their feature film and television depictions than …

It is common practice nowadays for adaptation critics to denounce the lack of meta-
theoretical thinking in adaptation studies and to plead for a study of 'adaptation-as …

Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón are the best-known
Mexican directors internationally, yet none of them has directed a film in Mexico since 2001 …

The first full-fledged history not just of the Man of Steel but of the creators, designers,
owners, and performers who made him the icon he is today, from the New York Times …

Wonder Woman. Asterix the Gaul. Watchmen. These popular comics, and many others, use
classical sources, narrative patterns, and references to enrich their imaginative worlds and …