TY - BOOK ID - 77888799 TI - The poetics of Slumberland : animated spirits and the animating spirit PY - 2012 SN - 1280108479 9786613520654 0520951506 9780520951501 9781280108471 9780520265714 0520265718 9780520265721 0520265726 6613520659 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Animated films KW - Comic books, strips, etc. KW - Fantastic, The, in art. KW - Fantasy in motion pictures. KW - Motion pictures KW - History and criticism. KW - Fantastique [Le ] dans l'art KW - Fantasy in motion pictures KW - History and criticism KW - animation. KW - animators. KW - artists. KW - cartoon artists. KW - cartoons. KW - cinema. KW - comic books. KW - comic superheroes. KW - comics. KW - creativity. KW - emotional. KW - energy. KW - film studies. KW - frankenstein. KW - hyperbolic. KW - images. KW - imagination. KW - inner life. KW - jackson pollock. KW - jerry lewis. KW - little nemo in slumberland. KW - media historians. KW - media studies. KW - my fair lady. KW - pablo picasso. KW - physicality. KW - plasmatic possibility. KW - play. KW - power of imagination. KW - rebellion. KW - retrospective. KW - slapstick comedy. KW - vincent van gogh. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77888799 AB - 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. ER -