Animating the Science Fiction Imagination (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2017
Authors:	J. P. Telotte (Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication)
Dimensions:	235 x 157 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-069527-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Illustration & commercial art > Comic book & cartoon art Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Animation
LSN:	0-19-069527-7
Barcode:	9780190695279

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