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Storyboarding: a Critical History

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This study provides the first book-length critical history of storyboarding, from the birth of cinema to the present day and beyond. It discusses the role of storyboarding in key films including Gone with the Wind, Psycho and The Empire Strikes Back, and is illustrated with a wi…

Storyboarding: a critical history

by Price, Steven, Pallant, Chris

fromPalgrave Studies in Screenwriting

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"This study provides the first book-length critical history of storyboarding. With roots in pre-cinematic experiments in the moving image, the form rapidly developed alongside animation, culminating in Disney's feature-length Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. William Cameron Menz…

Birth of an industry: blackface minstrelsy and the rise of American ani…

by Sammond, Nicholas

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"Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its representation in the cartoons themselves, and how important blackface minstrels wer…

The animated film encyclopedia: a complete guide to American shorts, features and…

by Webb, Graham

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"This expanded update of Graham Webb's The Animated Film Encyclopedia: 1900-1979 (McFarland, 2000) is a compehensive listing of theatrical animated cartoons through the end of the 20th century. An introduction explains the early days through the advent of computer graphics image…

Working with Disney: interviews with animators, producers, and artists

by Peri, Don, Peri, Don

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In this volume Don Peri expands his extraordinary work conducting in-depth interviews with Disney employees and animators. These recent interviews include conversations with actors and performers rather than solely animators. This book offers Peri's extensive interviews with Mar…

Frames of anime: culture and image-building

by Hu, Tze-yue G.

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This text is an interdisciplinary study of the subject of anime, a popular form of Japanese animation. Using a variety of research methods and spanning a period of nine years, the volume provides an alternative account of the growth of the medium-genre.

Magic as metaphor in anime: a critical study

by Cavallaro, Dani

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"This book examines Eastern and Western approaches to magic in anime. It then explores the collusion of anime and magic with reference to specific topos. A close study of cardinal titles is complemented by allusions to ancillary productions in order to situate the medium's fasci…

French animation history

by Neupert, Richard John

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Animation: History and Narration is the first text book designed to introduce readers to a wide range of significant cartoons, chronicle animation's rich history, and establish productive critical approaches for rethinking the fascinating variety of animated storytelling. This c…

The encyclopedia of animated cartoons

by Lenburg, Jeff

fromGale virtual reference library

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Covers silent cartoon series, theatrical sound cartoon series, full-length animated features, television cartoon series, and animated television specials. Includes an extensive historical overview of animation and information about Academy and Emmy award winners.

The Anime Paradox: Patterns and Practices Through the Lens of Traditional Japanese Theater

by Suan, Stevie

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The anime paradox: patterns and practices through the lens of tradit…

by Suan, Stevie

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Through the comparison of Anime with Noh, Bunraku, and Kabuki, The Anime Paradox provides a study on Anime's formal elements that produce specific narrative, structural, and aesthetic patterns.

The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit

by Bukatman, Scott

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The poetics of Slumberland: animated spirits and the animating spirit

by Bukatman, Scott

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"In The Poetics of Slumberland, Scott Bukatman celebrates play, plasmatic possibility, and the life of images in cartoons, comics, and cinema. Bukatman begins with Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland to explore how and why the emerging media of comics and cartoons brillian…

Demystifying Disney: A History of Disney Feature Animation

by Pallant, Chris

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Demystifying Disney: a history of Disney feature animation

by Pallant, Chris

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Demystifying Disney: A History of Disney Feature Animation provides a comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-dateexamination of the Disney studio's evolution through its animated films. In addition to challenging certain misconceptions concerning the studio's development, the study …

Pixar with Lacan: the hysteric's guide to animation

by Rösing, Lilian Munk

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Presents Lacanian interpretations of the animations films from Pixar Studio with the double aim of analysing an influential filmic oeuvre of contemporary popular culture and giving an introduction to Lacanian cultural analysis"

Pixar with Lacan: the hysteric's guide to animation

by Rösing, Lilian Munk

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Pixar with Lacan: the hysteric's guide to animation

by Rösing, Lilian Munk

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"Presents Lacanian interpretations of the animations films from Pixar Studio with the double aim of analysing an influential filmic oeuvre of contemporary popular culture and giving an introduction to Lacanian cultural analysis"