Dieselpunk is a pop surrealist art movement that combines contemporary technology and sensibilities with the aesthetics and art styles that were prevalent during the Western interbellum period through to the end of World War II (1920s - 1953). Born as an offshoot of the cyberpunk fiction genre, dieselpunk grew into its own during the late 1990s to include not only fiction (Hellboy), but also original artwork, games (Children of the Sun), movies (Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow), music (neo-Swing and Swing-punk), and fashion (militaria). The movement as a whole has experienced a resurgence in popularity during recent years thanks to a renewed interest in pop-culture retrofuturism.
In the realm of *punk movements, dieselpunk is bookended by similiar movements such as steampunk (based primarily upon the Scientific Romances of the Victorian era) and atompunk (a postmodern movement similar to dieselpunk that focuses on the aesthetics and art styles of the 1950s - early 1980s).
