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Animating the Science Fiction Imagination

By Telotte

Animating the Science Fiction Imagination

By Telotte

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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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
162
Release Date:
2017-11-07
Publication Date:
2017-01-24
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0190695269
ISBN13:
9780190695262
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
414 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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