| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 266 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fantastic, The, in art.
|
|
Fantastic, The, in art. |
|
Fantasy in motion pictures.
|
|
Fantasy in motion pictures. |
|
Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism.
|
|
Comic books, strips, etc. |
|
Animated films -- History and criticism.
|
|
Animated films. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bukatman, Scott, 1957- Poetics of Slumberland. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012 9780520265714 (DLC) 2011033308 (OCoLC)747232705 |
| ISBN |
9780520951501 electronic book |
|
0520951506 electronic book |
|
9780520265714 cloth |
|
0520265718 cloth |
|
9780520265721 paper |
|
0520265726 paper |
|
1280108479 |
|
9781280108471 |
| Standard No. |
9786613520654 |
|
