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 characterized by hyperbolic emotion, physicality, and imagination. 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 the purveyors of embodied utopias of disorder.
- ISBN10 6613520659
- ISBN13 9786613520654
- Publish Date 25 February 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 5 July 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 286
- Language English