Animating the Science Fiction Imagination

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de J. P. Telotte

Type

Studies

Sujet

Genre > Science Fiction

Mots Clés

science fiction, animation

Année d'édition

2017

Editeur

Oxford University Press

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 160 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-19-069527-9

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Description de l'ouvrage:
Long before flying saucers, robot monsters, and alien menaces invaded our movie screens in the 1950s, there was already a significant but overlooked body of cinematic science fiction. Through analyses of early twentieth-century animations, comic strips, and advertising, Animating the Science Fiction Imagination unearths a significant body of cartoon science fiction from the pre-World War II era that appeared at approximately the same time the genre was itself struggling to find an identity, an audience, and even a name. In this book, author J.P. Telotte argues that these films helped sediment the genre's attitudes and motifs into a popular culture that found many of those ideas unsettling, even threatening. By binding those ideas into funny and entertaining narratives, these cartoons also made them both familiar and non-threatening, clearing a space for visions of the future, of other worlds, and of change that could be readily embraced in the post-war period.

À propos de l'auteur :
J. P. Telotte is Professor of film and media studies at Georgia Institute of Technology, co-editor of the journal Post Script, and author of many publications, most recently Robot Ecology and the Science Fiction Film (Routledge, 2016).

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