The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-520-26572-1
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bukatman, Scott

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medientheorie, Medienanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Bukatman, Scott
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.