The specificity of graphic cinema on the example of "Hulk" by Ang Lee Cover Image

Specyfika kina graficznego na przykładzie "Hulka" Anga Lee
The specificity of graphic cinema on the example of "Hulk" by Ang Lee

Author(s): Tomasz Żaglewski
Subject(s): Media studies, Visual Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art, American Literature
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: graphic cinema; Hulk; Ang Lee; adaptation; spatio-topic; Will Eisner; Thierry Groensteen; Liam Burke; Jochen Ecke;

Summary/Abstract: In the article the author is trying to define the characteristics of a graphic cinema as one of the main trends in nowadays comic book film adaptations production. One of the main elements of this trend is an ambitious effort to adapt the formal aspects of comic books for a movie screen in the most accurate way that is possible. By using one of the first examples of graphic cinema - Ang Lee’s “Hulk” — the author is trying to reconstruct its mechanisms of the following the comic book language and find out where the limits of adaptation between comic book and film are.

  • Issue Year: 62/2019
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 106-115
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish