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Movies, modernism, and the science fiction pulps

Title
Movies, modernism, and the science fiction pulps / J.P. Telotte.
Author
Telotte, J. P., 1949-
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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Description
viii, 192 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"Cinematic influence shaped the experience and cultural understanding of science fiction during the formative pre-World War II period. Each chapter focuses on representations of film in pulp magazines -film-related advertisements; a film-related rhetoric that surfaced in science fiction stories; fans' and editors' discussions of film; and the covers and story illustrations for which the pulps were infamously known. The book's final chapter considers how, during the war and the decade immediately following, that cinematic influence shifted due to the recession of the modernist agenda and an array of new technologies, including television. By looking at those pulps during the key period in the development of science fiction, this book lays out film's early imprint on the genre and suggests the extent of its influence--an influence that would culminate in both SciFi film and literature coming into separate but equally impressive cultural prominence at approximately the same moment during the 1950s"--
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
Contents
Introduction: science fiction's "composite" project -- The pulps in the consumer's republic -- The real thing: the pulps imagine film -- Convergence and the rhetoric of scientifilm -- Cover stories: visualizing film -- Of war and beyond.
Call Number
JFE 20-3566
ISBN
  • 9780190949655
  • 0190949651
  • 9780190949662
  • 019094966X
LCCN
2018046803
OCLC
1079412121
Author
Telotte, J. P., 1949- author.
Title
Movies, modernism, and the science fiction pulps / J.P. Telotte.
Publisher
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Other Form:
Online version: Telotte, J. P., 1949- author. Movies, modernism, and the science fiction pulps New York : Oxford University Press, [2019] 9780190949679 (DLC) 2018059207
Research Call Number
JFE 20-3566
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