Scott Bukatman: 4 books
Terminal Identity
The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 1993
Scott Bukatman's Terminal Identity—referring to both the site of the termination of the conventional "subject" and the birth of a new subjectivity constructed at the computer terminal or television screen--puts to rest any lingering doubts of the significance of science fiction in contemporary...
Hellboy's World
Comics and Monsters on the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Hellboy, Mike Mignola’s famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy's World shows how our engagement with Hellboy's world is a highly aestheticized encounter with comics and their materiality....
The Poetics of Slumberland
Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
In The Poetics of Slumberland, Scott Bukatman celebrates play, plasmatic possibility, and the life of images in cartoons, comics, and cinema. Bukatman begins with Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland to explore how and why the emerging media of comics and cartoons brilliantly captured a playful,...
Matters of Gravity
Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2003
The headlong rush, the rapid montage, the soaring superhero, the plunging roller coaster—Matters of Gravity focuses on the experience of technological spectacle in American popular culture over the past century. In these essays, leading media and cultural theorist Scott Bukatman reveals how popular...