Scott Bukatman 
The Poetics of Slumberland 
Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit

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 Mc Cay’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.

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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

关于作者

Scott Bukatman is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of many books, including Terminal Identity and, most recently, Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the Twentieth Century.