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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bukatman, Scott, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fantastic, The, in art.

Fantasy in motion pictures.

Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Animated films--History and criticism.

Animated films.

Physical Description:

xvii, 266 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]

Summary:

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. Slumberland is more than a marvelous world for Nemo and its other citizens; it is an aesthetic space defined by the artist's innovations. 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 purveyors of embodied utopias of disorder. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: the lively, the playful, and the animated

Drawn and disorderly

The motionless voyage of Little Nemo

Labor and anima

Disobedient machines

Labor and animatedness

Playing superheroes.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0520265726

9780520265714

0520265718

9780520265721

OCLC:

747232705

Publisher Number:

99948205497