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Book Synopsis
Celebrates play, plasmatic possibility, and the life of images in cartoons, comics, and cinema. This book begins with Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland to explore how and why the media of comics and cartoons captured a playful, rebellious energy characterized by hyperbolic emotion, physicality, and imagination.

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"Delightfully Chestertonian... Bukatman shows the marvelous animated poetics of visual media... Essential." -- T. Lindvall, Virginia Wesleyan College Choice

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Appreciations Introduction: The Lively, the Playful, and the Animated 1. Drawn and Disorderly 2. The Motionless Voyage of Little Nemo 3. Labor and Anima 4. Disobedient Machines 5. Labor and Animatedness 6. Playing Superheroes Notes Bibliography Index

The Poetics of Slumberland

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    A Paperback / softback by Scott Bukatman

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 26/03/2012
      ISBN13: 9780520265721, 978-0520265721
      ISBN10: 0520265726
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Celebrates play, plasmatic possibility, and the life of images in cartoons, comics, and cinema. This book begins with Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland to explore how and why the media of comics and cartoons captured a playful, rebellious energy characterized by hyperbolic emotion, physicality, and imagination.

      Trade Review
      "Delightfully Chestertonian... Bukatman shows the marvelous animated poetics of visual media... Essential." -- T. Lindvall, Virginia Wesleyan College Choice

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Appreciations Introduction: The Lively, the Playful, and the Animated 1. Drawn and Disorderly 2. The Motionless Voyage of Little Nemo 3. Labor and Anima 4. Disobedient Machines 5. Labor and Animatedness 6. Playing Superheroes Notes Bibliography Index

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