The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit
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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 McCays 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 mediafilms 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 superheroesdrawing them all together as the purveyors of embodied utopias of disorder.
