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The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit

By Scott Bukatman

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780520951501
DOI
10.1525/9780520951501
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10669393 bytes)
Pages
286\285
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 15:47:46

Description

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.

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