Jan Baetens
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Rebuilding Story Worlds
The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters
By Jan Baetens
Rutgers University Press
Set in a parallel world, full of architecturally distinctive city-states, the comics series The Obscure Cities represents one of literature’s most impressive pieces of world-building. Rebuilding Story Worlds explores both the artistic traditions from which the series emerges and the innovative ways it plays with genre, gender, and urban space.
- Copyright year: 2020
The Film Photonovel
A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations
By Jan Baetens
University of Texas Press
The first book devoted to the hybrid genre of the film photonovel, applying a comparative textual media framework to a previously overlooked aspect of the history of film and literary adaptation.
- Copyright year: 2019