{"product_id":"the-poetics-of-slumberland-9780520265721","title":"The Poetics of Slumberland","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCelebrates 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Delightfully Chestertonian... Bukatman shows the marvelous animated poetics of visual media... Essential.\" -- T. Lindvall, Virginia Wesleyan College Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402843922775,"sku":"9780520265721","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520265721.jpg?v=1730481666","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-poetics-of-slumberland-9780520265721","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}