{"product_id":"animating-the-science-fiction-imagination-9780190695279","title":"Animating the Science Fiction Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): J. P. Telotte\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Film \u0026amp; Video\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong before flying saucers, robot monsters, and alien menaces invaded our movie screens in the 1950s, there was already a significant but overlooked body of cinematic science fiction. Through analyses of early twentieth-century animations, comic strips, and advertising, \u003cem\u003eAnimating the Science\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eFiction Imagination \u003c\/em\u003e unearths a significant body of cartoon science fiction from the pre-World War II era that appeared at approximately the same time the genre was itself struggling to find an identity, an audience, and even a name. In this book, author J.P. Telotte argues that these films helped sediment the genre's attitudes and motifs into a popular culture that found many of those ideas unsettling, even threatening. By binding those ideas into funny and entertaining narratives, these cartoons also made them both familiar and non-threatening, clearing a space for visions of the future, of other worlds, and of change that could be readily embraced in the post-war period.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46489591808151,"sku":"9780190695279","price":3443.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780190695279.jpg?v=1766342365","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/animating-the-science-fiction-imagination-9780190695279","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}