Abstract:The article takes as objects of study Will Eisner’s graphic narratives, originating in the 1940s, and their adaptation, which Frank Miller scripted and directed, in the film The Spirit (2008). Methodologically, we developed a comparative aesthetic analysis, with a contribution to the intersemiotic processes observed in the passage from print media to cinema. We started from the observation of spatial coordinates in fictional dark cities, which present themselves as iniquitous and violent symbolic scenarios, co… Show more
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