Book
A new history of animation
Record details
- ISBN: 0500292094
- ISBN: 9780500292099
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Physical Description:
print
464 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm. - Publisher: New York : Thames & Hudson, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references, glossary and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Setting the scene for animation -- The magic of early cinema -- Foundations of the animation industry -- The late silent era and the coming of sound -- Animation as a modern art -- Disney's new aesthetic -- Style and the Fleischer Studio -- Comedy and the dominance of American animation -- Animation in World War II -- International developments in postwar animation -- Stop-motion approaches -- Midcentury shifts in American design -- Early television animation -- Postwar experimentation -- New audiences for animated features -- The emergence of electronic games -- Voices from the Eastern Bloc -- Authorship in animated shorts -- The Disney renaissance -- Television as a creative space -- Computer-generated animation in features -- The culture of Japanese animation -- The panorama of world animation -- Animation in the art world. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Animation (Cinematography) -- History Animated film industry -- History Animated films -- History Computer animation -- History |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Lansdowne Library | NC 1765 F873 2016 (Text) | 26040003377211 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Book News : Book News Reviews
This volume presents an illustrated history of animation, covering industrial productions and arts-based practices related to drawn and painted animation, stop-motion, and computer-generated imagery; major studios in the US and Japan; and animation produced in Eastern and Western Europe, the UK, Australia, Latin America, South Africa, and elsewhere. It describes the origins of animation, early animation, animation during wartime and midcentury, postwar experimentation, new contexts and voices like electronic games and television, and animation worldwide. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - Choice Reviews : Choice Reviews 2017 April
Furniss (California Institute of the Arts) has written a magnificent and enthralling book. The narrative flows like a mesmerizing story, and the images shine like sparkling stars. Setting the stage with precinematic visual entertainment, the author chronicles the historical trajectory of the animated film from its silent beginnings to its panoramic explosion around the globe. Scholars will appreciate the book as an insightful compendium of the animated film's remarkable evolution, and as a text book it will both instruct and delight as dulce et utile. Furniss demonstrates an acute awareness of aesthetic and cultural contexts outside the films themselves in dealing with artistic movements, censorship, politics, and even gag structures that showcase an interdisciplinary cross-fertilization. This animation film history easily supplants all the great ones that have gone before it, and sets a gloriously brilliant new benchmark. A tour-de-force, it joins Giannalberto Bendazzi's equally fine, three-volume Animation: A World History (CH, Mar'17, 54-3134). Summing Up: Essential. All readers.
--T. Lindvall, Virginia Wesleyan College
Terry Lindvall
Virginia Wesleyan College
Terry Lindvall Choice Reviews 54:08 April 2017 Copyright 2017 American Library Association.
