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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.

Animated films --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Fantastic, The, in art. --- Fantasy in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Fantastique [Le ] dans l'art --- Fantasy in motion pictures --- History and criticism --- animation. --- animators. --- artists. --- cartoon artists. --- cartoons. --- cinema. --- comic books. --- comic superheroes. --- comics. --- creativity. --- emotional. --- energy. --- film studies. --- frankenstein. --- hyperbolic. --- images. --- imagination. --- inner life. --- jackson pollock. --- jerry lewis. --- little nemo in slumberland. --- media historians. --- media studies. --- my fair lady. --- pablo picasso. --- physicality. --- plasmatic possibility. --- play. --- power of imagination. --- rebellion. --- retrospective. --- slapstick comedy. --- vincent van gogh.