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Morton, Drew, ed. After Midnight: Watchmen after Watchmen. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2022. 
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Resource type: Book
Language: en: English
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv2z0vtv8
ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781496842169
BibTeX citation key: Morton2022
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Keywords: "Watchmen", Collection of essays, Gibbons. Dave, Moore. Alan, United Kingdom, USA
Creators: Morton
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi (Jackson)
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Attachments   Table of Contents [0/2] URLs   https://muse.jhu.edu/book/101358, https://academic.o ... -online/book/45978
Abstract
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen fundamentally altered the perception of American comic books and remains one of the medium’s greatest hits. Launched in 1986—“the year that changed comics” for most scholars in comics studies—Watchmen quickly assisted in cementing the legacy that comics were a serious form of literature no longer defined by the Comics Code era of funny animal and innocuous superhero books that appealed mainly to children. After Midnight: “Watchmen” after “Watchmen” looks specifically at the three adaptations of Moore and Gibbons’s Watchmen—Zack Snyder’s Watchmen film (2009), Geoff Johns’s comic book sequel Doomsday Clock (2017), and Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen series on HBO (2019). Divided into three parts, the anthology considers how the sequels, especially the limited series, have prompted a reevaluation of the original text and successfully harnessed the politics of the contemporary moment into a potent relevancy. The first part considers the various texts through conceptions of adaptation, remediation, and transmedia storytelling. Part two considers the HBO series through its thematic focus on the relationship between American history and African American trauma by analyzing how the show critiques the alt-right, represents intergenerational trauma, illustrates alternative possibilities for Black representation, and complicates our understanding of how the mechanics of the show’s production can impact its politics. Finally, the book’s last section considers the themes of nostalgia and trauma, both firmly rooted in the original Moore and Gibbons series, and how the sequel texts reflect and refract upon those often-intertwined phenomena.
  
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