Movies, modernism, and the science fiction pulps /
Telotte, J. P., 1949-
Movies, modernism, and the science fiction pulps / J.P. Telotte. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
This text considers the impact that the new art of film had on the development of the emerging science fiction (SF) genre during the pre- and early post-World War II era, during the time that the genre was trying to locate an identity, develop its key themes, and even settle on a name. Focusing on the primary venue for early SF literature, the popular pulp magazines, it traces this early film/literature relationship by examining four common features of the pulps: stories that involve film or the film industry; film-related advertising; editors' commentaries and readers' remarks on film; and cover and story illustrations. All these features demonstrate an interest and even a fascination with the movies, which, as many of SF's readers, writers, and editors recognized, demonstrated a modernist agenda similar to that which characterized the literature.
9780190949693 (ebook) : No price
Science fiction, American--History and criticism.--20th century
Pulp literature, American--History and criticism.--20th century
Science fiction--Periodicals--History--20th century.
Motion pictures in literature.
813.0876209
Movies, modernism, and the science fiction pulps / J.P. Telotte. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
This text considers the impact that the new art of film had on the development of the emerging science fiction (SF) genre during the pre- and early post-World War II era, during the time that the genre was trying to locate an identity, develop its key themes, and even settle on a name. Focusing on the primary venue for early SF literature, the popular pulp magazines, it traces this early film/literature relationship by examining four common features of the pulps: stories that involve film or the film industry; film-related advertising; editors' commentaries and readers' remarks on film; and cover and story illustrations. All these features demonstrate an interest and even a fascination with the movies, which, as many of SF's readers, writers, and editors recognized, demonstrated a modernist agenda similar to that which characterized the literature.
9780190949693 (ebook) : No price
Science fiction, American--History and criticism.--20th century
Pulp literature, American--History and criticism.--20th century
Science fiction--Periodicals--History--20th century.
Motion pictures in literature.
813.0876209