J P Telotte

Biographic Data

ID1113495
NAMEJ P Telotte
GIVEN NAMESJ P
FAMILY NAMETelotte
SIGNATURETELOTTE J P
AFFILIATIONSGeorgia Institute of Technology
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS58
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT57
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Watching Science Fiction Theatre , Seeing Television

    J P TelotteARTICLEScience Fiction Studies2024

    Prior to the appearance of Rod Serling's landmark series The Twilight Zone , independent syndicator Ziv Television produced a similarly serious dramatic series, Science Fiction Theatre , that challenged the television hegemony of such popular space operas as Captain Video, Space Patrol , and Tom Corbett, Space Cadet . While lasting only 78 episodes, it was widely distributed and dubbed into many languages, bringing adult sf stories to a broader t…

  • Posthumanism

    J P TelotteCHAPTEROxford Handbook of New Science…2023

    This chapter on posthumanism and science fiction (sf) describes a range of posthuman film narratives, including stories about human adaptation through technological means, apocalyptic extinctions of the human, and the potential transcendence of the current human condition. Drawing on the work of such figures as Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, and N. Katherine Hayles, the chapter examines the increasingly blurred sense of what constitutes the human…

  • Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas

    J P TelotteBOOKOxford Handbook of New Science…2023

  • Pondering the “Pulp Paradox”: Pal, Paramount, and the SF Pulps

    J P TelotteARTICLEScience Fiction Studies2020

    This essay reconsiders what genre historian Bradley Schauer terms the “pulp paradox,” that is, the film industry's supposed reluctance to produce sf films because of a fear that doing so would associate the movies with “the less reputable variations of the genre” often associated with pulp literature. It examines this notion by considering a partnership in the 1950s between producer George Pal, major film studio Paramount Pictures, and the most r…

  • Silent Serial Sensations: The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema by Barbara Tepa Lupack

    J P TelotteARTICLETechnology and Culture2020

    Reviewed by: Silent Serial Sensations: The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema by Barbara Tepa Lupack J. P. Telotte (bio) Silent Serial Sensations: The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema By Barbara Tepa Lupack. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 384. In 1921, famed publisher E. W. Scripps founded Science Service, an organization promoting science and technology in everyday life. This development suggests the backgr…

  • Apocalypse Then: American and Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1951-1967 by Mike Bogue

    J P TelotteARTICLEScience Fiction Studies2019

    403 BOOKS IN REVIEW Technophobes, and Renegades,” “Aliens, Robots, Mutants, and Others,” “Going Inward: Science Fiction and Human Enhancement,” and “Conclusion: Great Power and Great Responsibility.” Throughout, he finds appropriate texts to develop his case. Moreover, he is reliable in handling his material. I occasionally raised an eyebrow, for example, when he described James Hogg (1770-1835), who wrote all or virtually all of his works after …

  • Reshaping SF Film History

    J P Telotte, J P Telotte J P TelotteARTICLEScience Fiction Studies2018

  • Hollywood on the Moon: “Scientifilm,” the Pulps, and the SF Imagination

    J P Telotte, J P Telotte J P TelotteARTICLEScience Fiction Studies2017

  • Robot Ecology and the Science Fiction Film

    J P TelotteBOOKRobot Ecology and the Science…2016

    This book offers the first specific application in film studies of what is generally known as ecology theory, shifting attention from history to the (in this case media) environment. It takes the robot as its subject because it has attained a status that resonates not only with some of the key concerns of contemporary culture over the last century, but also with the very nature of film. While the robot has given us a vehicle for exploring issues …

  • Robby the Robot and Robotic Persistence

    J P TelotteARTICLEMosaic2016Cited by: 1

    This essay takes a "memetic" approach to a persistent figure of science fiction media, Robby the Robot of Forbidden Planet. The figure's persistence in the cultural imaginary reflects our conflicted attitude toward efforts at linking the technological body with an electronic mind, beginning in the post-war era and continuing today

  • A Cinematic Companion

    J P Telotte, J P Telotte J P TelotteARTICLEScience Fiction Studies2015

  • Animation, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Imagination

    J P Telotte, J P Telotte J P TelotteARTICLEScience Fiction Studies2015

  • The Empire's New Robots

    J P Telotte, J P Telotte J P TelotteARTICLEScience Fiction Studies2015

  • Cult Film Experience: Beyond All Reason

    J P TelotteBOOKCult Film Experience2014

  • Disney's Most Notorious Film: Race, Convergence and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South

    J P TelotteARTICLEScreen2014

    Journal Article Disney's Most Notorious Film: Race, Convergence and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South Get access Jason Sperb, Disney's Most Notorious Film: Race, Convergence and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2012, 278 pp. J. P. Telotte J. P. Telotte [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 55, Issue 2, Summer 2014,…

  • Lost in Space

    J P Telotte, J P Telotte J P TelotteARTICLEScience Fiction Studies2013

  • Méliès’s Extraordinary Voyages

    J P Telotte, J P Telotte J P TelotteARTICLEScience Fiction Studies2012

  • The kiss of the rabbit woman

    J P TelotteARTICLEScreen2012

    This essay examines the relationship between animation aesthetics and the powers of cultural representation, specifically as illustrated by the love chase and its iconography that are central to classic-era Warners Bros cartoons. The faux love scenes that recur, especially in the Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd films, showcase one of the form's key appeals, revealing a freedom from power in our ability to accept and violate conventions, to read and mock si…

  • American Science Fiction Film and Television (review)

    J P TelotteARTICLETechnology and Culture2011

    Reviewed by: American Science Fiction Film and Television J. P. Telotte (bio) American Science Fiction Film and Television. By Lincoln Geraghty. Oxford: Berg, 2009. Pp. 156. $94.95/24.95. Science fiction film and television have become hot topics for publication, especially among academic presses, as science fiction programming—thanks in part to cable television’s Syfy channel—has multiplied, as college courses on science fiction and media have p…

  • Spatial Presence and Disney's Oswald Comedies

    J P TelotteARTICLEJournal of Popular Film and…2011References: 2

    Even prior to Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney was exploring new stylistic patterns in animation. His Oswald comedies, for example, demonstrate a new attitude towards filmic space emerging in this period—what Anthony Vidler terms spatial presence. This article examines how space assumes a “presence” that shapes the Oswald comedies' narratives

  • Disney's cows, the mouse, and the modernist moment

    J P TelotteARTICLEScreen2010Cited by: 1

    Walt Disney's early cartoons, particularly his early Mickey Mouse efforts, have often been criticized for their earthiness and especially for what is commonly referred to as their barnyard humour. That element is seen as a sign of these cartoons’ rather primitive level of appeal, far removed from the modernist impulse typically located in the popular Felix the Cat, KoKo the Clown, and Krazy Kat cartoons of this era. Moreover, that primitive eleme…

  • The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader

    J P TelotteBOOKThe essential science fiction…2008

    Once confined solely to literature and film, science fiction has emerged to become a firmly established, and wildly popular, television genre over the last half century. The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader provides insight into and analyses of the most important programs in the history of the genre and explores the breadth of science fiction programming. Editor J. P. Telotte and the contributors explain the gradual transformation of t…

  • The Stereoscopic Mickey: Space, Animation, and the Mouse

    J P TelotteARTICLEJournal of Popular Film and…2008

    Film history has partially obscured the accomplishment of the first Mickey Mouse cartoons. With the appearance of the fully synchronized-sound Steamboat Willie (1928), they have been primarily discussed in relation to that technology, being both praised and attacked for the ways they use sound. While useful, such assessments have also shifted attention away from something fundamental to animation, a sense of how these films confronted the problem…

  • Animating Space: Disney, Science, and Empowerment

    J P TelotteARTICLEScience Fiction Studies2008

    One of the pleasures of animation, it has been argued, is that it affords viewers a sense of power over the everyday, thanks to its ability to bring into being a world unrestrained by the conventions of realism or of probability. This principle is one that Walt Disney not only well understood, but also brought to bear in his studio’s early foray into the realms of science and science fiction, the “Man in Space” programs created for the Disneyland…

  • Winsor McCay's warped spaces

    J P TelotteARTICLEScreen2007

    This essay examines the use of space in a variety of Winsor McCay's animated films, from Gertie the Dinosaur to The Pet . While recent animation criticism, such as that of Esther Leslie and Paul Wells, has emphasized the links between the cartoon and the avant garde in the 1920s and 1930s, that commentary has largely excluded McCay's work from consideration, in part because of its obvious embeddedness in the popular discourse of vaudeville and th…