Format:
1 online resource
,
illustrations (black and white).
ISBN:
9780190949693
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
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.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2019. - Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 10, 2019)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190949655
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780190949655
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780190949655.001.0001
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