Watership Down : perspectives on and beyond animated violence / edited by Catherine Lester.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lester, Catherine, editor.

Series:

Animation: key films/filmmakers.

Animation : key films/filmmakers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Watership Down (Motion picture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Watership Down

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2023]

Summary:

"The first exclusive academic study of the aesthetic, cultural and historical significance of a landmark British animated film, Watership Down"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Watership Down in context / Catherine Lester

'We consider the conduct of this film highly unsatisfactory and unprofessional' : film finances and Watership Down / Llewella Chapman and James Chapman

Revisiting the production of Watership Down through the Arthur Humberstone Animation Archive / Klive Humberstone, Nigel Humberstone and Chris Pallant

'Trying to eat grass that isn't there' : unearthing a lapine corpus in Richard Adams' Watership Down and its film adaptation / R. Grider

Animating utopia : aesthetic instability and the revolutionary gaze in the film adaptation of Watership Down / Lisa Mullen

'Whenever they catch you, they will kill you' : human-animal conflict in 1970s British children's cinema / Noel Brown

They watered ship down : eco-doom and ecopedagogy in adaptations of Watership Down and The animals of Farthing Wood / Hollie Adams

Watership Down under : when rabbits came to Australia / Dan Torre and Lienors Torre

'English pastoral melodies' : the traditions and connotations of Angela Morley's musical score for Watership Down / Paul Mazey

'I know now. A terrible thing is coming' : Watership Down, music and/as horror / Leanne Weston

Pastel dreams and crimson nightmares : colour, aesthetics and Watership Down / Carolyn Rickards

Prince with a thousand faces : shifting art-styles and the depiction of violence in Watership Down / Sam Summers

Drawing blood : the forms and ethics of animated violence in Watership Down / Josh Schulze

'Won't somebody please think of the bunnies?' : Watership Down, rabbit horror and 'suitability' for children / Catherine Lester

Mourning Hazel-rah / Catherine Sadler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version of record.

ISBN:

1-5013-7699-3