Surrealism, science fiction and comics / edited by Gavin Parkinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parkinson, Gavin, editor.

Series:

Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 50.

Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surrealism (Literature).

Science fiction--History and criticism.

Science fiction.

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

Comic books, strips, etc.

Graphic novels--History and criticism.

Graphic novels.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although the self-definition of Surrealism and the initial defining of science fiction as a genre both took place in the 1920s and the links between the two are manifest, no full study has appeared till now on Surrealism and SF. Across ten original essays, Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics looks at how the Surrealist movement in France and the USA used, informed, contributed to, and criticised SF from that moment, whilst including discussion of the related genre of comics. Among its aims are a reassessment of Jules Verne in the light of Surrealism and an analysis of the debate in the 1950s on the 'new' Anglo-American literature arriving in France. --Provided by pubisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Gavin Parkinson

Surrealism and Jules Verne: depth of subtext in a collage by Max Ernst / Abigail Susik

André Breton, Rodolphe Töpffer and the automatic message / Barnaby Dicker

Approximate life: the cybernetic adventures of Monsieur Wzz ... / Jonathan P. Eburne

Reassessing René Magritte's Période Vache: from Louis Forton's Piets Nickelés to Georges Bataille / Gilda Axelroud

Surrealism, science fiction and UFOs in the 1950s: 'Myth' in France before Roland Barthes / Gavin Parkinson

The comic book conditions of Chicago surrealism / Joanna Pawlik

Accident and Apocalypse in Alan Burns's Europe after the rain / Jeannette Baxter

Surrealist painting as science fiction: considering J.G. Ballard's 'Innate Releasing Mechanism' / Gavin Parkinson

A fantastic voyage: mapping Salvador Dali's science fiction world of tomorrow / Julia Pine

Ten recipes for immortality: A study in Dalínian science and paranoiac fictions / Elliott King.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-258) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78138-238-7

1-78138-759-1

OCLC:

944211672