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  Re: LAYERS OF PARADOX IN F FOR FAKE (Benjamin Sampson)

  Responding to Chiara's Questions

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  Drew Morton Texas A&M University-Texarkana

  Saturday, April 19, 2014 — 4:40 pm

  Thanks for your thoughtful commentary, Chiara. I'll try to answer some of those questions you posed, which have been often been voiced by Katie and Chris in our meetings together. 1. "One of the things that I was wondering, though, is whether or ...
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  Re: BERGMAN SENSES (Thomas Elsaesser, Anne Bachmann and Jonas Moberg)

  Compilations vs. Catalogs

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  Drew Morton Texas A&M University-Texarkana

  Monday, March 31, 2014 — 5:41 pm

  Out of sheer coincidence, I happened to re-watch PERSONA last week (thanks to the newly released Criterion Blu-Ray). I immediately sat through the poetic compilation series that Thomas Elsaesser and his team have created around Bergman films and realized ...
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  Re: [in]Transition: Editors' Introduction

  Future!

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  Drew Morton Texas A&M University-Texarkana

  Tuesday, April 15, 2014 — 1:19 pm

  Adam, Great to hear from you (and I hope you're well!) and thanks for your interest! As for your questions about the future, we are formalizing our submission guidelines and we will be posting them soon. The first four issues of this quarterly journa ...
• In Media Res
  Re: What makes a comic digital?

  Now, this is something I can get behind...

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  Drew Morton Texas A&M University-Texarkana

  Monday, February 20, 2012 — 7:54 pm

    A few months back, I had the privilege of writing about motion comics for In Media Res.  I've never much cared for them and I was curious to see where else digital technologies would take the comic book form.  Most of my experiences since that piec ...
• In Media Res
  Re: More Than One Shade Of RED

  Tone, Adaptations, and Formal Remediation

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  Drew Morton Texas A&M University-Texarkana

  Tuesday, August 2, 2011 — 8:41 pm

   Greg and Cully,   Tone, to me, has always been my main concern with adaptations as a fan.  For instance, I was disappointed in "Wanted" the film because it threw aside the darker aspect of Mark Millar's series.  Yet, it was a fine action f ...
• In Media Res
  Re: More Than One Shade Of RED

  Adding to Avi's Question

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  Drew Morton Texas A&M University-Texarkana

  Tuesday, August 2, 2011 — 10:01 pm

   Cully,   I had an addition to Avi's question that, as he stated, you might not be able to comment on given your contract.   When the rights were sold, did you lose ownership over your artwork?  I'm curious to see to what degree comics have beco ...
• In Media Res
  Re: More Than One Shade Of RED

  Thanks!

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  Drew Morton Texas A&M University-Texarkana

  Monday, August 8, 2011 — 7:02 pm

  Cully,  Thanks so much for the clarification!  ...
• In Media Res
  Re: The Outrageous Origins of the Motion Comic!

  Scott McCloud Quotation Clarification and My Reluctant Thoughts

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  Drew Morton Texas A&M University-Texarkana

  Thursday, August 4, 2011 — 3:08 pm

  Greg, Thanks for your comment! I agree that the concept of a Platonic essence is problematic, but I do think there are core formal attributes to a medium that evolve over time (essentially, I'm a believer in Bolter and Grusin's concept of remedi ...
• In Media Res
  Re: The Outrageous Origins of the Motion Comic!

  Diverse Styles

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  Drew Morton Texas A&M University-Texarkana

  Friday, August 5, 2011 — 2:20 pm

   The Watchmen MC definately felt like an audio book to me.  The single actor, who gave narration and dialogue the same inflection, did not help the epically long title.  That said, other titles do take the radio approach (Inception, Saw:  Rebirth).  One o ...
• In Media Res
  Re: The Outrageous Origins of the Motion Comic!

  Thanks everyone!

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  Drew Morton Texas A&M University-Texarkana

  Tuesday, August 9, 2011 — 6:37 am

   Needless to say, thanks to Chris, Ian, and Greg for the discussion.  It was a great pleasure to contribute to this week's theme with you all!   ...

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