Movies, modernism, and the science fiction pulps / J.P. Telotte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Telotte, J. P., 1949- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction, American--20th century--History and criticism.

Science fiction, American.

Pulp literature, American--20th century--History and criticism.

Pulp literature, American.

Science fiction--Periodicals--History--20th century.

Science fiction.

Motion pictures in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This text considers the impact that the new art of film had on the development of the emerging science fiction (SF) genre during the pre- and early post-World War II era, during the time that the genre was trying to locate an identity, develop its key themes, and even settle on a name. Focusing on the primary venue for early SF literature, the popular pulp magazines, it traces this early film/literature relationship by examining four common features of the pulps: stories that involve film or the film industry; film-related advertising; editors' commentaries and readers' remarks on film; and cover and story illustrations. All these features demonstrate an interest and even a fascination with the movies, which, as many of SF's readers, writers, and editors recognized, demonstrated a modernist agenda similar to that which characterized the literature.

Contents:

Introduction: science fiction's "composite" project

The pulps in the consumer's republic

The real thing: the pulps imagine film

Convergence and the rhetoric of scientifilm

Cover stories: visualizing film

Of war and beyond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 10, 2019).

Also issued in print: 2019.

Other Format:

Print version: 0-19-094965-1

ISBN:

0-19-094968-6

0-19-094969-4

0-19-094967-8