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Item Details
Title:
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ANIMATING THE SCIENCE FICTION IMAGINATION
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By: |
J. P. Telotte |
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Paperback |
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£31.99 |
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£31.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0190695277 |
ISBN 13: |
9780190695279 |
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Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
Pub. date: |
7 November, 2017 |
Pages: |
168 |
Description: |
From twentieth-century animations and comic strips to 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. |
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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. |
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36 halftones |
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US |
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Oxford University Press Inc |
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