1.

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815544603321

Autore

MacCulloch J. A.

Titolo

The Celtic and Scandinavian religions / / J. A. MacCulloch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Illinois : , : Academy Chicago Publishers, , 1948

©1948

ISBN

0-89733-434-5

1-61373-228-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Disciplina

293

Soggetti

Celts - Religion

Mythology, Celtic

Scandinavia Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Celtic; Chapter I: The Celtic People; Chapter II: Aspects of Nature Worship; Chapter III: Mythic Aspects; Chapter IV: The Deities in Gaul; Chapter V: The Deities of the British Celtic Tribes; Chapter VI: The Deities of the Goidels in Ireland; Chapter VII: Mythical Heroes; Chapter VIII: Worship and its Accessories; Chapter IX: The Priesthood; Chapter X: The Powers of Magic; Chapter XI: The Future Life; Chapter XII: The World As Regarded by the Celts; Chapter XIII: A Celtic Wonderland; Chapter XIV: Morality; Scandinavian

Chapter I: Sources of our KnowledgeChapter II: Mythical Conceptions; Chapter III: Scandinavian Deities; Chapter IV: Lesser Supernatural Beings; Chapter V: Nature and Beings Derived from It; chapter VI: Worship and its Accessories; Chapter VII: Magic and Divination; Chapter VIII: The Scandinavian Universe; Chapter IX: The Future Life; Chapter X: The Fate of the Gods and of the World; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<div>The author compares Celtic mythology and religion with the beliefs of early Scandinavian society. Vikings and Norsemen who raided



British shores ruled parts of Britain for centuries. The religion of the Scandinavians was the same as the religious beliefs and practices of their fellow Teutonic and Germanic tribes, and their chief deities and religious rituals were like those of Teutonic people anywhere.</div>