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The poetics of Slumberland : animated spirits and the animating spirit / Scott Bukatman.
| Author/creator | Bukatman, Scott, 1957- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012. |
| Description | xvii, 266 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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."--p. [4] of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-250) and index. |
| LCCN | 2011033308 |
| ISBN | 9780520265714 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520265718 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780520265721 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0520265726 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Standard identifier# | 99948048018 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | NX650.F36 B85 2012 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |