Surrealism, science fiction and comics /
Although the self-definition of Surrealism and the initial defining of science fiction as a genre both took place in the 1920s and the links between the two are manifest, no full study has appeared till now on Surrealism and SF. Across ten original essays, Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics look...
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| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ;
50. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Gavin Parkinson
- Surrealism and Jules Verne: depth of subtext in a collage by Max Ernst / Abigail Susik
- André Breton, Rodolphe Töpffer and the automatic message / Barnaby Dicker
- Approximate life: the cybernetic adventures of Monsieur Wzz... / Jonathan P. Eburne
- Reassessing René Magritte's Période Vache: from Louis Forton's Piets Nickelés to Georges Bataille / Gilda Axelroud
- Surrealism, science fiction and UFOs in the 1950s: 'Myth' in France before Roland Barthes / Gavin Parkinson
- The comic book conditions of Chicago surrealism / Joanna Pawlik
- Accident and Apocalypse in Alan Burns's Europe after the rain / Jeannette Baxter
- Surrealist painting as science fiction: considering J.G. Ballard's 'Innate Releasing Mechanism' / Gavin Parkinson
- A fantastic voyage: mapping Salvador Dali's science fiction world of tomorrow / Julia Pine
- Ten recipes for immortality: A study in Dalínian science and paranoiac fictions / Elliott King.