Movies, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Pulps

by J. P. Telotte

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190949686
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/11/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

J. P. Telotte is Professor of film and media studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His recent publications include Science Fiction TV (2014), Robot Ecology and the Science Fiction Film (2016), and Animating the Science Fiction Imagination (2017).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: Science Fiction's "Composite" Project Chapter 2: The Pulps in the Consumer's Republic Chapter 3: The Real Thing: The Pulps Imagine Film Chapter 4: Convergence and the Rhetoric of Scientifilm Chapter 5: Cover Stories: Visualizing Film Chapter 6: Of War and Beyond Select Filmography of Early Bibliography Index