The poetics of Slumberland : animated spirits and the animating spirit / / Scott Bukatman

• Autore: Bukatman Scott <1957->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Disciplina: 700/.415
• Soggetto topico: Animated films - History and criticism; Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism; Fantastic, The, in art; Fantasy in motion pictures
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The poetics of Slumberland
• ISBN: 1-280-10847-9; 9786613520654; 0-520-95150-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812542203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II