Filmic Transpositions of Comic Books: theorizing the relation between two languages

• Autor(a) principal: Garcia, Yuri
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v8n2.747
• topic: Cinema; comics; transpositions; language; theory; Cinema; histórias em quadrinhos; banda desenhada; transposições; linguagem; teoria

This article aims to assess the relationship between the languages of cinema and comics. Comic book adaptations – especially of superhero stories – have become a major market for the film industry. These productions are usually accompanied by a large budget and high box office numbers, establishing themselves among the biggest blockbusters in film history. Thus, this trend seems to be gaining increasing importance in Hollywood. In addition to the financial factor, which stands out as an essential element in the choices of major cinematographic productions, the films in question seem to establish new possibilities, having started a process that generates greater critical acceptance. An investigation of this phenomenon in its most grammatical configuration can usher in hypotheses pointing towards why the contemporary context appears to be ideally suited for comics to be transposed to cinema.