Movies, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Pulps

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by J. P. Telotte

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Science Fiction

Keywords

science fiction, literature, comics

Publishing date

2019

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 200 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-19-094966-2

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Book Presentation:
• links science fiction literature with film
• compares the cover and internal art of the pulps to common film advertising and imagery
• discovers that film-related terms and imagery is consistently present in golden age science fiction

What impact did the new art of film have on the development of another new art, the emerging science fiction genre, during the pre- and early post-World War II era? Focusing on such popular pulp magazines as Amazing Stories, Astounding Stories, and Wonder Stories, this book traces this early relationship between film and literature through four common features: stories that involve film or the film industry; film-related advertising; editorial matters and readers' letters commenting on film; and the magazines' heralded cover and story illustrations. By surveying these haunting traces of another medium in early science fiction discourse, we can begin to see the key role that a cinematic mindedness played in this formative era and to expand the early history of science fiction as a cultural idea beyond the usual boundaries that have been staked out by its literary manifestations and the genre's historians.

About the Author:
J. P. Telotte, Professor of Film and Media Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology J. P. Telotte is Professor of film and media studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His recent publications include Science Fiction TV (2014), Robot Ecology and the Science Fiction Film (2016), and Animating the Science Fiction Imagination (2017).

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