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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789920503321

Autore

Bukatman Scott <1957->

Titolo

The poetics of Slumberland [[electronic resource] ] : animated spirits and the animating spirit / / Scott Bukatman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-10847-9

9786613520654

0-520-95150-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Disciplina

700/.415

Soggetti

Animated films - History and criticism

Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism

Fantastic, The, in art

Fantasy in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- APPRECIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION. The Lively, the Playful, and the Animated -- Chapter 1. DRAWN AND DISORDERLY -- Chapter 2. THE MOTIONLESS VOYAGE OF LITTLE NEMO -- Chapter 3. LABOR AND ANIMA -- Chapter 4. DISOBEDIENT MACHINES -- Chapter 5. LABOR AND ANIMATEDNESS -- Chapter 6. PLAYING SUPERHEROES -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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.