Liam Burke, The Comic Book Film Adaptation : Exploring Modern Hollywood’s Leading Genre // Drew Morton, Panel to the Screen : Style, American Film, and Comic Books During the Blockbuster Era

Adaptation studies underwent a profound transformation from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. In a perceptive review published in Image[&]Narrative in 2007, Heidi Peeters slyly remarked that : “The ultimate acknowledgement of the academic acceptance of adaptations, however, would be someone like, say, Linda Hutcheon writing a book on the phenomenon,” before reviewing Linda Hutcheon’s landmark book, A Theory of Adaptation (Peeters 2007). In addition to rejecting a hierarchical view of narrative..