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In The Poetics of Slumberland, Scott Bukatman celebrates play, plasmatic possibility, and the life of images in cartoons, comics, and cinema. Bukatman begins with Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland to explore how and why the emerging media of comics and cartoons brilliantly captured a playful, rebellious energy characterized by hyperbolic emotion, physicality, and imagination. The book broadens to consider similar “animated” behaviors in seemingly disparate media—films about Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh; the musical My Fair Lady and the story of Frankenstein; the slapstick comedies of Jerry Lewis; and contemporary comic superheroes—drawing them all together as the purveyors of embodied utopias of disorder.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 286
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
26 March 2012
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520265721
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
“Delightfully Chestertonian. . . . Bukatman shows the marvelous animated poetics of visual media. . . . Essential.”
Scott Bukatman is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of many books, including Terminal Identity and, most recently, Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the Twentieth Century.
List of Illustrations
Appreciations
Introduction: The Lively, the Playful, and the Animated
1. Drawn and Disorderly
2. The Motionless Voyage of Little Nemo
3. Labor and Anima
4. Disobedient Machines
5. Labor and Animatedness
6. Playing Superheroes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Appreciations
Introduction: The Lively, the Playful, and the Animated
1. Drawn and Disorderly
2. The Motionless Voyage of Little Nemo
3. Labor and Anima
4. Disobedient Machines
5. Labor and Animatedness
6. Playing Superheroes
Notes
Bibliography
Index