Animating the Science Fiction Imagination Hardback
by J. P. (Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Professor in the Sc Telotte
Hardback
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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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:162 pages, 36 halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:21/12/2017
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- ISBN:9780190695262
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:162 pages, 36 halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:21/12/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780190695262
