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Neuróptica ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 95-116
Author(s):  
Sandra Medina Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Alan Moore ◽  
V For Vendetta

Resumen: En el presente artículo se analizarán las versiones cinematográficas realizadas a partir de los cómics del guionista de historietas inglés Alan Moore (Northampton, 1953). Hasta la fecha, cuatro han sido las novelas gráficas de Moore que han sido llevadas a la pantalla: From Hell, La liga de los hombres extraordinarios, V de Vendetta y Watchmen. Asimismo, el eje de atención se centrará en las modificaciones propuestas por estos filmes, que han distorsionado y alterado la esencia y el mensaje profundo que originariamente contienen las obras de Moore. Abstract: In this article we will analyze the film versions made from the comics of the english comic writer Alan Moore (1953, Northampton). To date, four have been Moore's graphic novels brought to the screen: From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta and Watchmen. In our study we will identify the modifications in these films that have distorted and altered the essence and profound message contained in Moore's works.

scholarly journals (Anti)Fascism and Superhero Comics: An Anthropological Examination of Innovativeness in Comic Books as Exemplified by "V for Vendetta"

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloš Zarić
Keyword(s):  
Comic Books ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Semiotic Model ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Semantic Dimension ◽  
Alan Moore ◽  
The Way ◽  
V For Vendetta

The paper analyzes the V for Vendetta comic books, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd. These volumes are graphic novels whose characteristics place them in the literary genre of the critical dystopia, but they have also been associated with the genre of the superhero comic, which, according to a number of authors including Alan Moore, is inextricably linked to the ideology and practice of the political right, which in its extreme form assumes the form of fascism. The way that fascism is treated in that work, as well as in two other comics discussed in the paper (Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen and Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns), is linked to the way in which the process of creativity/innovativeness functioned in the context of the revision/deconstruction of the superhero comic book genre in the 1980s, both on the collective (intra-genre) and the individual level, on the level of the thought structure of the British writer Alan Moore. Using the structural-semiotic model of analysis, the paper seeks to fathom the logic of this deconstruction procedure "broken down" into the three comic books discussed in the paper, with particular emphasis on the analysis of V for Vendetta, with the aim of establishing its "hidden", connotative semantic dimension. The study adopts a modern view of the comic book according to which the essence of this medium, which distinguishes it from other narrative and graphic forms of expression as well as from film, can be recognized in the specific, sequential way of combining its visual and narrative components, thus generating meanings whose interpretation depends on the intention of the author but also on the view of the reader.

Revisionism and the British Invasion (1981–1993)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Murray
Keyword(s):  
Alan Moore ◽  
V For Vendetta

This chapter examines the development of the revisionist trend in British comics as well as the so-called British Invasion of American comics and its afermath during the period 1981–1993. It argues that revisionism was a continuation and refocusing of the satirical reaction to the superhero genre that has been in evidence in British comics for decades. The chapter first considers Captain Britain, written by Alan Moore for Marvel UK, before discussing Marvelman and V for Vendetta, also created by Moore, this time for Warrior. It then turns to Watchmen (1986) by Moore and Dave Gibbons, one of the most influential superhero comics of all time; Paradax, a character introduced in 1985 by Eclipse Comics in Strange Days #3; Zenith (1987); and the satire Marshal Law (1987). It also analyzes publications that parody the superhero genre, including How to Be a Superhero (1990) and 1963 (1993).

Villain Becomes Hero

2019 ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
Allan Metcalf
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Fascist Regime ◽  
Alan Moore ◽  
Second Coming ◽  
V For Vendetta

Another diversion is necessary to acknowledge the return of Guy Fawkes in the present day. No, it’s not his Second Coming, but there is awareness of Guy Fawkes as a role model for modern-day activists and protesters. It has come particularly from Alan Moore and David Lloyd, creators of the graphic novel “V for Vendetta,” a serial first published as a book in 1988. It imagines a ruthless Fascist regime in England in the 1990s, opposed by a lone rebel who calls himself simply V, and who always wears a mask that is a simplified adaptation of the sketches of Guy Fawkes back in the 1600s, but with a smile. The resemblance to Fawkes is emphasized at the very beginning, where unlike Fawkes he casually blows up the houses of Parliament after reciting “Remember, remember, the fifth of December” to a young woman he has just rescued from the police. The story became a movie with Hugo Weaving as V and Natalie Portman as the rescued girl Evey. The masks were used by Occupy protesters and others early in the 21st century. Rather than an arch-villain, V and the mask now signal opposition to government tyranny. This chapter briefly cites Guy Fawkes’s 19th-century adaptations and references, including the beginning of Thomas Hardy’s 1888 novel, Return of the Native.

‘Sparks of Meaning’: Comics, Music and Alan Moore

2015 ◽  
Vol 140 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-162
Author(s):  
Tim Summers
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Alan Moore ◽  
V For Vendetta

ABSTRACTComics have become a significant part of modern popular culture. This article examines the ways in which music is involved with comics, and develops methods for analysing musical moments in comic books. The output of the writer Alan Moore (b. 1953) is used as the domain for examining music and comics. This popular author's works are notable for their sophisticated use of music and their interaction with wider musical culture. Using case studies from the comic books V for Vendetta (1982–9), Watchmen (1986–7) and the second and third volumes of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2002–12), the article demonstrates that the comic can be a musically significant medium (even to the point of becoming a piece of virtual musical theatre), and argues that music in comics serves to encourage readers to engage in hermeneutic criticism of musical and musical-literary texts.

scholarly journals Watchmen, Scientific Imaginaries, and the Capitalocene: The Media and Their Messages for Science Educators

2021 ◽  
pp. 277-292
Author(s):  
Noel Gough ◽  
Simon Gough
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Cultural Literacy ◽  
Sequential Art ◽  
The Media ◽  
Science Educators ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Alan Moore

AbstractThis chapter explores the generativity of comics/graphic novels and their filmic adaptations as contributions to the “cultural literacy” of science educators by examining: (i) representations of science in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ graphic novel Watchmen; (ii) the unique capability of sequential art to depict key scientific imaginaries, such as complexity and simultaneity; (iii) the treatment of these imaginaries in Zack Snyder’s (Watchmen. Universal Pictures, 2009) filmic adaptation of Watchmen; and (iv) the shift from the novel’s threats of Cold War nuclear annihilation toward the film’s concern with contemporary fears of a climate crisis. Many science educators treat comics/graphic novels (and much science fiction) with suspicion, tending to focus on their fidelity (or lack thereof) with canonical “textbook science” and the im/plausibility of their narratives. We argue that both versions of Watchmen constitute distinctively generative media resources (with cross-generational relevance) for rethinking science education in the Capitalocene.

Case Studies–Comics

2020 ◽  
pp. 185-216
Author(s):  
Charles Forceville
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Sequential Art ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Stations Of The Cross ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Alan Moore

The antecedents of the genre of comics and graphic novels could be dated as far back as Christ’s Stations of the Cross in numerous churches, but the genre of “sequential art’ ” (Will Eisner 2006 [1985]) really took off in the late 19th century and was baptized the “ninth art” in the course of the 20th. It typically consists of visuals combined with written language. Comics sport a number of visual elements that are to be decoded rather than inferred by the reader-viewer, such as pictograms, balloons, and motion and emotion lines. Moreover, the audience of comics is expected to be familiar with meaning-generating mechanisms such as onomatopoeia and the “gutter,” and to understand how to navigate from panel to panel. Comics artists help their audience achieve relevance by tapping into these readers/viewers’ knowledge of narrative codes and conventions. These include the three classic mechanisms of surprise, suspense, and curiosity, and the distinction between omniscient (or external) narrators and character-narrators. The case studies include panels or sequences from work by Hergé, Shaun Tan, Peter de Wit, Lewis Trondheim, Guy Delisle, Johanna Sinisalo and Hannu Mänttäri, and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, as well as IKEA instructions on a do-it-yourself (DIY) package. The chapter shows how achieving relevance requires appropriate reference assignment, enrichment, broadening or narrowing assumptions, processing loose visuals, correctly adducing implicated premises, and generating explicatures and implicatures.

Graphic Novels as Philosophy

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Philosophical Argument ◽  
Essex County ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Important Sense ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
Written Word ◽  
Alan Moore

In a follow-up to Comics as Philosophy, this book addresses two questions: which philosophical insights, concepts, and tools can shed light on the graphic novel? And how can the graphic novel cast light on the concerns of philosophy? Each chapter ponders a well-known graphic novel to illuminate ways in which philosophy can untangle particular combinations of image and written word for deeper understanding. The chapters examine notable graphic novels within the framework posited by these two questions. One chapter discusses how a philosopher discovered that the panels in Jeff Lemire's Essex County do not just replicate a philosophical argument, but they actually give evidence to an argument that could not have existed otherwise. Another chapter reveals how Chris Ware's manipulation of the medium demonstrates an important sense of time and experience. Still another describes why Maus tends to be more profound than later works that address the Holocaust because of, not in spite of, the fact that the characters are cartoon animals rather than human. Other works contemplated include Will Eisner's A Contract with God, Alan Moore and David Lloyd's V for Vendetta, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, and Joe Sacco's Footnotes in Gaza. Mainly, each author, graphic novelist, and artist are all doing the same thing: trying to tell us how the world is—at least from their point of view.

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