Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015. ISBN: 9781628462036
Liam Burke brings an academic's focus to the study of comic book movies. In five chapters, he mines adaption theory in light of comic book film studies, surveys audiences in Ireland regarding their knowledge of comic fandom, studies how the Marvel Way of Comics has influenced comic book movies and many other topics.Each chapter is self-contained, but mentions discussions found in other chapters. Chapter titles include The Golden Age of Comic Book Filmmaking, The Comic Book Movie Genre, Fans, Fidelity, and the Grammar of Value, A Comic Aesthetic, How to Adapt Comics the Marvel Way, concluding with The Future of the Comic Book Movie. Burke also includes in an appendix the North American Box Office Totals for Comic Book Film Adaptions (in dollar amounts not weighted for inflation).
Burke develops well his thesis for each chapter, providing plenty of scholarly detail and notes to other studies. He makes his points accompanied by illustrations where appropriate, but never really provides a coherent theme or scope for the book. Rather he seems to have taken ideas that did not make it into published articles and crammed them into one disjointed book. However, if you are interested in film adaption theory and comic books, you could mine this book for your own pleasure.
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