Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Animation, Science Fiction, and the Modernist Spirit -- Chapter 2: Flights of Fantasy -- Chapter 3: Robots and Artificial Beings -- Chapter 4: Alien Visions -- Chapter 5: Inventions, Modern Marvels, and Mad Scientists -- Postscript: New SF Images for a Postwar World -- A Select Filmography of Science Fiction Animation -- A Science Fiction Animation Bibliography

From twentieth-century animations and comic strips to advertising, 'Animating the Science Fiction Imagination' 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.

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Animation, Science Fiction, and the Modernist Spirit -- Chapter 2: Flights of Fantasy -- Chapter 3: Robots and Artificial Beings -- Chapter 4: Alien Visions -- Chapter 5: Inventions, Modern Marvels, and Mad Scientists -- Postscript: New SF Images for a Postwar World -- A Select Filmography of Science Fiction Animation -- A Science Fiction Animation Bibliography

Journey beyond the limits of your imagination and dive into the realm of science fiction with "Beyond the Imaginary: The Significance of Science Fiction." This fascinating and insightful exploration of the genre takes readers on a thrilling ride through literature, film, television, animation, and more, revealing the intricate connections between science fiction and our ever-evolving world. From the birth of science fiction in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" to the breathtaking universes of "Star Wars" and "Dune," this captivating book explores the history, impact, and societal influence of science fiction, while examining its ethical implications and forecasting the genre's future. Along with in-depth analysis, you'll discover engaging anecdotes, curious facts, and surprising insights that will keep you hooked from start to finish. Featuring several informative appendixes, "Beyond the Imaginary" also delves into lesser-known subgenres, highlights groundbreaking women creators, explores the vibrant science fiction fandom, and introduces influential authors and filmmakers. Perfect for long-time sci-fi enthusiasts and newcomers alike, this book offers a unique perspective on the genre that has captured the hearts and minds of countless readers and viewers across the globe. Dare to venture "Beyond the Imaginary" and unlock the secrets behind the enduring allure of science fiction.

"For the contemporary film audience, science fiction has become a key locus for displaying-and imaginatively addressing-its most pressing concerns. Those concerns increasingly surface not just as displaced subjects, injected into conventional sf narratives, but as inflections in the very nature of the genre. We might describe these issues that bulk so large in our everyday world as angling into the world of science and technology, becoming a kind of slant presence in the genre, and in the process altering the thrust of our sf films and other screen media, resulting in what seems like a proliferation of sub-genre labels that mark off a substantially "new" group of sf cinemas. These cinemas challenge us to view or "read" them differently, from perspectives that are just coming into focus. Through an introductory overview and series of articles on various of these contemporary "slants" and the theories that drive them, this volume offers a guide to both what the new sf cinemas are about and how we have come to think about or "read" them differently. In the process, it also links these fragments of the constantly growing sf supertext to our changing sense of how genres function as a process, marked by consistent growth and evolution, and discussed in ways that reflect contemporary culture's own constant changes"--

How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and helped create the broader genre itself. For Hollywood, the golden age of science fiction was also an age of anxiety. Amid rising competition, fluid audience habits, and increasing government regulation, studios of the 1950s struggled to make and sell the kinds of films that once were surefire winners. These conditions, the leading media scholar J. P. Telotte argues, catalyzed the incredible rise of science fiction. Though science fiction films had existed since the earliest days of cinema, the SF genre as a whole continued to resist easy definition through the 1950s. In grappling with this developing genre, the industry began to consider new marketing approaches that viewed films as fluid texts and audiences as ever-changing. Drawing on trade reports, film reviews, pressbooks, trailers, and other archival materials, Selling Science Fiction Cinema reconstructs studio efforts to market a promising new genre and, in the process, shows how salesmanship influenced what that genre would become. Telotte uses such films as The Thing from Another World, Forbidden Planet, and The Blob, as well as the influx of Japanese monster movies, to explore the shifting ways in which the industry reframed the SF genre to market to no-longer static audience expectations. Science fiction transformed the way Hollywood does business, just as Hollywood transformed the meaning of science fiction.

What values should form the foundation of music education? And once we decide on those values, how do we ensure we are acting on them? In Values and Music Education, esteemed author Estelle R. Jorgensen explores how values apply to the practice of music education. We may declare values, but they can be hard to see in action. Jorgensen examines nine quartets of related values and offers readers a roadmap for thinking constructively and critically about the values they hold. In doing so, she takes a broad view of both music and education while drawing on a wide sweep of multidisciplinary literature. Not only does Jorgensen demonstrate an analytical and dialectical philosophical approach to examining values, but she also seeks to show how theoretical and practical issues are interconnected. An important addition to the field of music education, Values and Music Education highlights values that have been forgotten or marginalized, underscores those that seem perennial, and illustrates how values can be double-edged swords.