عنوان

New Tools for Storytelling: Flexible Ethnicity and Adaptation in Comics & Television

Number

TL49418

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

New Tools for Storytelling: Flexible Ethnicity and Adaptation in Comics & Television

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Abby E. Barlok

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Peterson, James B.; Krasas, Jackie

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Lehigh University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

62

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-84484-9

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Discipline of degree

American Studies

Body granting the degree

Lehigh University

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

This thesis examines different forms of storytelling by using graphic novels, comic books and television series to efficiently do so. The first chapter features a fairly new comic called Ms. Marvel where the superhero is a teenage Muslim instead of the traditional blue-eyed, blonde-haired superhero. The chapter describes Marvel Comics' direction of changing ethnicity, sex, gender, etc. to better suit the vastly-growing and diverse consumer market. Chapter two concentrates on the tool of flashbacks in a comic called Bitch Planet and in a television show called Orange is the New Black. The use of flashbacks is investigated, further demonstrating its ability to humanize characters. Chapter three focuses on adaptation as a form, tracing its roots from creation to present-day. In the chapter, I discuss the call and current need for changes within adaptations. I also examine an original comic called Preacher, while also comparing it to the newly-finished TV series adaptation by the same name. Throughout the three chapters, portable ethnicity, flashbacks and adaptation are all a common theme and all play a part in the storytelling of these pieces.

American studies; American literature; Mass communications

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Adaptations;Comics;Flashbacks;Flexible ethnicity;Storytelling;Television

Dahdal, Sylvia H.

Peterson, James B.; Krasas, Jackie

Subdivision

American Studies

Lehigh University

Call Number

1915935303; 10278661

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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