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Title:
Animating the science fiction imagination / J.P. Telotte.
Author:
Telotte, J. P., 1949- author.
Publication Information:
©20

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

©2018
Call Number:
NC1766.U5 T453 2018
Abstract:
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9780190695262

9780190695279
Physical Description:
viii, 152 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
1. Introduction: Animation, Modernism and the Science Fiction Imagination -- 2. Flights of Fantasy -- 3. Of Robots and Artificial Beings -- 4. Alien Visions -- 5. Inventions, Modern Marvels, and Mad Scientists -- Postscript: New SF Images for a Postwar World -- A Prewar and Early War Animated Science Fiction Filmography -- A Science Fiction Animation Bibliography.
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