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The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit
Scott Bukatman
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Description for The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit
Paperback. Celebrates play, plasmatic possibility, and the life of images in cartoons, comics, and cinema. This book begins with Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland" to explore how and why the media of comics and cartoons captured a playful, rebellious energy characterized by hyperbolic emotion, physicality, and imagination. Num Pages: 286 pages, 32 color illustrations, 38 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AKLC; APFV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
286
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
521g
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520265721
SKU
V9780520265721
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99-1
About Scott Bukatman
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.
Reviews for The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit
"Delightfully Chestertonian... Bukatman shows the marvelous animated poetics of visual media... Essential."
T. Lindvall, Virginia Wesleyan College Choice
T. Lindvall, Virginia Wesleyan College Choice