Movies, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Pulps

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-094965-5
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 473 g

What impact did the new art of film have on the development of another new art, the emerging science fiction genre, during the pre- and early post-World War II era? Focusing on such popular pulp magazines as Amazing Stories, Astounding Stories, and Wonder Stories, this book traces this early relationship between film and literature through four common features: stories that involve film or the film industry; film-related advertising; editorial matters and readers' letters commenting on film; and the magazines' heralded cover and story illustrations. By surveying these haunting traces of another medium in early science fiction discourse, we can begin to see the key role that a cinematic mindedness played in this formative era and to expand the early history of science fiction as a cultural idea beyond the usual boundaries that have been staked out by its literary manifestations and the genre's historians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Telotte, J. P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Chapter 1: Introduction: Science Fiction's "Composite" Project

- Chapter 2: The Pulps in the Consumer's Republic

- Chapter 3: The Real Thing: The Pulps Imagine Film

- Chapter 4: Convergence and the Rhetoric of Scientifilm

- Chapter 5: Cover Stories: Visualizing Film

- Chapter 6: Of War and Beyond

- Select Filmography of Early

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

J. P. Telotte is Professor of film and media studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His recent publications include Science Fiction TV (2014), Robot Ecology and the Science Fiction Film (2016), and Animating the Science Fiction Imagination (2017).