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Title:
The poetics of Slumberland : animated spirits and the animating spirit
Author:
Bukatman, Scott, 1957- author.
ISBN:
9780520951501

9781280108471
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvii, 266 pages, [32] pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
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"--Provided by publisher.
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