A Reader In Animation Studies / edited by Jayne Pilling.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Society of Animation Studies, Content Provider.

Pilling, Jayne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer animation--Congresses.

Computer animation.

Animation (Cinematography)--Congresses.

Animation (Cinematography).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (678 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : J. Libbey, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P>Cartoons-both from the classic Hollywood era and from more contemporary feature films and television series-offer a rich field for detailed investigation and analysis. Contributors draw on theories and methodology from film, television, and media studies, art history and criticism, and feminism and gender studies.</P>

Contents:

A Reader in Animation Studies; A Reader in Animation Studies; Edited by Jayne Pilling; Contents; The Society for Animation Studies: A brief history; by Harvey Deneroff, Editor & Publisher, The Animation Report, Canoga Park, California, the United States; Introduction; Jayne Pilling; 1; What is animation and who needs to know?; An essay on definitions; Philip Kelly Denslow; 2; 'Reality' effects in computer animation; Lev Manovich; 3; Second-order realism and post-modernist aesthetics in computer animation; Andy Darley; 4

The Quay brothers' The Epic of Gilgamesh and the 'metaphysics of obscenity'Steve Weiner; 5; Narrative strategies for resistance and protest in Eastern European animation; William Moritz; 6; Putting themselves in the pictures; Images of women in the work of Joanna Quinn, Candy Guard and Alison de Vere; Sandra Law; 7; An analysis of Susan Pitt's Asparagus and Joanna Priestley's All My Relations; Sharon Couzin; 8; Clay animation comes out of the inkwell; The Fleischer brothers and clay animation; Michael Frierson; 9; Bartosch's The Idea; William Moritz; 10

Norman McLaren and Jules Engel: Post-modernistsWilliam Moritz; 11; Disney, Warner Bros. and Japanese animation; Three world views; Luca Raffaelli; 12; The thief of Buena Vista; Disney's Aladdin and Orientalism; Leslie Felperin; 13; Animatophilia, cultural production and corporate interests; The case of Ren & Stimpy; Mark Langer; 14; Francis Bacon and Walt Disney revisited; Simon Pummell; 15; Body consciousness in the films of Jan Svankmajer; Paul Wells; 16; Eisenstein and Stokes on Disney; Film animation and omnipotence; Michael O'Pray; 17; Towards a post-modern animated discourse

Bakhtin, intertextuality and the cartoon carnivalTerrance R. Lindvall and J. Matthew Melton; 18; Restoring the aesthetics of early abstract films; William Moritz; 19; Resistance and subversion in animated films of the Nazi era; The case of Hans Fischerkoesen; William Moritz; 20; European influences on early Disney feature films; Robin Allan; 21; Norm Ferguson and the Latin American films of Walt Disney; J.B. Kaufman; Notes on the contributors; List of SAS Conference papers; Notes

Notes:

A selection of papers presented at the annual conferences of the Society of Animation Studies.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-220).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780861969005

0861969006

OCLC:

607774640