{"product_id":"9780190695293","title":"Animating the Science Fiction Imagination","description":"Long before flying saucers, robot monsters, and alien menaces invaded our movie screens in the 1950s, there was already a significant but overlooked body of cinematic science fiction. Through analyses of early twentieth-century animations, comic strips, and advertising, \u003cem\u003eAnimating the Science Fiction Imagination \u003c\/em\u003e unearths a significant body of cartoon science fiction from the pre-World War II era that appeared at approximately the same time the genre was itself struggling to find an identity, an audience, and even a name. In this book, author J.P. Telotte argues that these films helped sediment the genre's attitudes and motifs into a popular culture that found many of those ideas unsettling, even threatening. By binding those ideas into funny and entertaining narratives, these cartoons also made them both familiar and non-threatening, clearing a space for visions of the future, of other worlds, and of change that could be readily embraced in the post-war period.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077549146352,"sku":"9780190695293","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780190695293_p0.jpg?v=1763660024","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780190695293","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}