The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520265726
ISBN13:9780520265721
Release Date:March 2012
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:286 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"
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