Comic Books Go To War
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Overview
- Genre
- Arts, Human Rights, Culture, Politics, and Current Affairs
- Synopsis
The universe of comic books is a worldwide pop mythology, a Pantheon in cheap newsprint and saturated colors. For almost 100 years comic books have provided fantasy, escape, and compensation for adolescents who often feel powerless and misunderstood in their daily lives. Fantasies of power are inevitably violent, but the violence in comic books has no consequences. After all, it's just the stroke of a pen... But what happens when the comic book meets real war? In this age of hundreds of television stations, 24-hour news, worldwide instantaneous satellite transmission and thousands of web sites updated hourly, the lowly comic book has become a documentary medium, providing a real understanding of the human dimensions of war, genocide and revolution.
- Treatment
- Show treatment
- Stage
- finished
- Running time
- 65 and 52 minutes
Credits
- Mark Daniels ... Writer/Director/Cameraman
Production Details
- Prod. Co.
- GA&A Productions, Rome, Italy; Reciprocal Films, New York
- Country
- Italy
- Years of Production
- 2006/2009
- Locations
- Paris, New York, Portland, Geneva
- Prod. Partners
- ZDF/ARTE, Avro. SVT, YLE, MEDIA
Distribution Details
- Release year
- 2009
- Festivals
- Nominated for Europa Prize (2010), FIFA, Montreal (2011), Istanbul International Film Festival (2010), San Diego Comic-Com (2011), Imperial War Museum, London (2011); others . . .
- Awards
- Best Reportage FIFA, Montreal
- Distribution
- Distributed by GA&A Productions, Rome. DVD released by ARTE (France). On tour with prize-winning films from FIFA, Montreal.
- Broadcast (Prod.)
- ZDF/ARTE, AVRO, SVT, YLE, SVT, SF, TSR, CBC
- Language
- English, French
- Subtitles
- English, French
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