Animation : art & industry / edited by Maureen Furniss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Furniss, Maureen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animation (Cinematography).

Animated films.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 240 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Herts : JL, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Animation-Art and Industry is an introductory reader covering a broad range of animation studies topics, focusing on both American and international contexts. It provides information about key individuals in the fields of both independent and experimental animation, and introduces a variety of topics relevant to the critical study of media-censorship, representations of gender and race, and the relationship between popular culture and fine art. Essays span the silent era to the present, include new media such as web animation and gaming, and address animation made using a variety of techniques.

Contents:

Introduction / Maureen Furniss

Global perspectives

Fine art animation / Cecile Starr

Some critical perspectives on Lotte Reiniger / William Moritz

It's Mickey Mouse / Esther Leslie

Norman McLaren : His UNESCO work in Asia / Terence Dobson

Conventions versus clichés / Patrick Drazen

My neighbor Totoro / Helen McCarthy

Glocalisation vs. Globalization : The work of Nick Park and Peter Lord / Marian Quigley

Toward a postmodern animated discourse : Bakhtin, intertextuality and the cartoon carnival / Terry Lindvall and Matthew Melton

Innocent play or the copycat effect? Computer game research and classification / Jørgen Stensland

Winsor McCay / John Canemaker

The live wire : Margaret J. Winkler and animation history / J. B. Kaufman

Disney and the art world : The early years / Bill Mikulak

The art of Chuck Jones : John Lewell interviews the veteran Hollywood animator / John Lewell and Chuck Jones

The Disney studio at war / Charles Solomon

UPA / Jules Engel

Blacklisted animators / Karl Cohen

Clay animation and the early days of television : The "Gumby" series / Michael Frierson

Commercial breaks / Bill Hanna and Tom Ito

"Cartoon, anti-cartoon" / George Griffin

Computers, new technology and animation / James Lindner, Tina Price, Carl Rosendahl, and John Lasseter

The illusion of "identity" : Gender and racial representation in Aladdin / Sean Griffin

Selling Bugs Bunny : Warner Bros. and character merchandising in the nineties / Linda Simensky.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 11, 2015).

ISBN:

9780861969043

0861969049

OCLC:

904138182