Open AccessThe Universe-al Storytelling. Towards A ‘Spatial’ Narrative Model in Modern Comic Book Cinema
Author(s) -
Tomasz Żaglewski
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
panoptikum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1730-7775
DOI - 10.26881/pan.2021.26.08
Subject(s) - comics , narrative , storytelling , movie theater , franchise , universe , literature , history , aesthetics , sociology , art , astronomy , physics , business , business administration
The aim of the article is to analyze modern superhero films through the specifics of superhero narratives in comics. By referring to the ‘organic’ elements of graphic super-storytelling – like retcon or crossover – the author tries to explain the main shift within comic book adaptations heading towards a ‘universe-al’ mode of narration. By doing so the analysis concentrates on the most succesful recent cases of superhero films as attempts to achieve a narrative ‘remediation’ of comic books’ spatial organization that requires reconsideration of the status of an individual superheroic franchise (or sub-franchise) within the larger universe of pre-existing, future and even alternate texts.