Reader in Animation Studies

Name: Reader in Animation Studies
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ISBN: 9781864620009

ISBN-10: 1864620005

ISBN-13: 9781864620009

Edition: 1998

Authors: Jayne Pilling

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A Reader in Animation Studies reflects a growing interest in animation as a medium that spans a far wider range of films than that of cartoons for children. Animation has emerged from its previously marginalised status both in terms of growing adult audiences for the heterogeneous range of films that come under the heading 'animation' and in terms of providing a corpus of work deserving serious academic analysis and study.The serious study of popular culture has provided fertile ground for the development of sophisticated forms of critical commentary, and cartoons - both from the classic Hollywood era and from more contemporary feature films and television series - offer a rich field for…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 5/22/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 7.90" wide x 9.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Introduction, by Jayne Pilling New technologies



What is animation and who needs to know? An essay on definitions




'Reality' effects in computer animation




Second-order realism and post-modern aesthetics in computer animation Andy Darley Text and context: Analyses of individual films



The Quay brothers' The Epic of Gilgamesh and the 'metaphysics of obscenity'




Narrative strategies for resistance and protest in Eastern European animation




Putting themselves in the pictures: Images of women in the work of Joanna Quinn




An analysis of Susan Pitt's Asparagus and Joanna Priestley's All My Relations




Clay animation comes out of the inkwell: The Fleischer brothers and clay animation




Bartosch's The Idea




Norman McLaren and Jules Engel: Post-modernists




Disney, Warner Bros. and Japanese animation



12 The thief of Buena Vista: Disney's Aladdin and Orientalism




Animatophilia, cultural production and corporate interests: The case of Ren & Stimpy



14 Francis Bacon and Walt Disney revisited




Body consciousness in the films of Jan Svankmajer




Eisenstein and Stokes on Disney: Film animation and omnipotence




Towards a post-modern animated discourse: Bakhtin, intertextuality and the cartoon carnival



18 Restoring the aesthetics of early abstract films




Resistance and subversion in animated films of the Nazi era: The case of Hans Fischerkoesen




European influences on early Disney feature films




Norm Ferguson and the Latin American films of Walt Disney