Movies, modernism, and the science fiction pulps /

Movies, modernism, and the science fiction pulps /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Telotte, J. P., 1949- author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Description:	viii, 192 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Science fiction, American -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Pulp literature, American -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Motion pictures in literature. Motion pictures in literature. Pulp literature, American. Science fiction, American. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11922307

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ISBN:	9780190949655 0190949651 9780190949662 019094966X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
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"--
Other form:	Online version: Telotte, J. P., 1949- author. Movies, modernism, and the science fiction pulps New York : Oxford University Press, [2019] 9780190949679

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Summary:	What impact did the new art of film have on the development of another new art, the emerging science fiction genre, during the pre- and early post-World War II era? Focusing on such popular pulp magazines as Amazing Stories, Astounding Stories, and Wonder Stories, this book traces this early relationship between film and literature through four common features: stories that involve film or the film industry; film-related advertising; editorial matters and readers' letters commenting on film; and the magazines' heralded cover and story illustrations. By surveying these haunting traces of another medium in early science fiction discourse, we can begin to see the key role that a cinematic mindedness played in this formative era and to expand the early history of science fiction as a cultural idea beyond the usual boundaries that have been staked out by its literary manifestations and the genre's historians.
Physical Description:	viii, 192 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
ISBN:	9780190949655 0190949651 9780190949662 019094966X