The poetics of Slumberland
Subtitle: animated spirits and the animating spirit
By: Scott Bukatman
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780520265714; 9780520265721
Subjects: Fantastic, The, in art; Animated films; Fantasy in motion pictures; History and criticism; Comic books, strips
Description: "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."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the lively, the playful, and the animated; title: Drawn and disorderly; title: The motionless voyage of Little Nemo; title: Labor and anima; title: Disobedient machines; title: Labor and animatedness; title: Playing superheroes.