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- Title
Hollywood on the Moon: “Scientifilm,” the Pulps, and the SF Imagination.
- Authors
Telotte, J. P.
- Abstract
This essay examines how the movies, the movie industry, and a movie consciousness filtered into the pulp magazines during sf’s formative, pre-World War II era. It measures that early film/literature relationship by surveying the primary pulp magazines associated with the beginnings of sf publishing in the United States and framing them in the context that Francesco Casetti applies to early cinema when he suggests that the movies, as a pre-eminent modernist form, provided a kind of “script for reading the modern experience,” one that “not only proposed a reading of that experience, but at times imposed a pattern for its expression and communication” (5). This approach locates similar impulses for “reading” and shaping—via film—in stories that involved film or the film industry, in film-related advertising, in editorial matter and readers’ letters, in reviews, and in cover illustrations, all suggesting an interest in, even fascination with “scientifilms,” as they were often termed. In sum, it looks at the haunting traces of another medium in the early discourse surrounding sf in order to determine how a cinematic mindfulness influenced or played a part in this formative era and, in the process, helped us expand those boundaries usually associated with the early history of and sense of sf as a cultural idea or genre.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PULP magazines; PULP literature; SELF-publishing; CASETTI, Francesco; MOTION pictures in literature; PUBLISHING
- Publication
Science Fiction Studies, 2017, Vol 44, Issue 3, p526
- ISSN
0091-7729
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5621/sciefictstud.44.3.0526