Description: The first book devoted to the hybrid genre of the film photonovel, applying a comparative textual media framework to a previously overlooked aspect of the history of film and literary adaptation.
Brief description: Jan Baetens is a professor of cultural studies at the University of Leuven. He is also the author or editor of numerous books, including Novelization: From Film to Novel, The Graphic Novel: An Introduction, and The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel.
Review Quotes: Baetens' keen eye and deep scholarly understanding of word and image narrative brings out the gems in [the film photonovel genre]...This richly illustrated book, with clear and engaging prose, is both an important contribution to the widening field of adaptation studies and a model of medium-specific analysis that considers a form's unique historical materiality to be in complex relationship with its remediation of past genres.-- "Leonardo" (11/1/2019 12:00:00 AM)