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 McCayrsquo;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 mediamdash;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 superheroesmdash;drawing them all together as the purveyors of embodied utopias of disorder.
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