| Animating the Science Fiction Imagination Contributor(s): Telotte, J. P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0190695277 ISBN-13: 9780190695279 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $37.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Film & Video - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Animation (see Also Film - Genres - Animated) |
| Dewey: 791.433 |
| LCCN: 2017041317 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (0.62 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |