Animation: Art and Industry

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.

Linda Simensky [1998]Author biographies.

ANIMATION:; ART & INDUSTRY; ANIMATION:; ART & INDUSTRY; Edited by; Maureen Furniss; Contents; Introduction; Maureen Furniss; Global; Perspectives; 1; Fine Art Animation; Cecile Starr [1987]; 2; Some Critical Perspectives on Lotte Reiniger; William Moritz [1996]; 3; it's mickey mouse; Esther Leslie [2002]; 4; Norman McLaren:; His UNESCO Work in Asia; Terence Dobson [2000]; 5; Conventions versus Clichés; Patrick Drazen [2003]; 6; My Neighbor Totoro; Helen McCarthy [1999]; 7; Glocalisation vs. Globalization: The Work of Nick Park and Peter Lord; Marian Quigley [2002]; 8.

Toward a Postmodern Animated Discourse: Bakhtin, Intertextuality and the Cartoon CarnivalTerry Lindvall & Matthew Melton [1994]; 9; Innocent Play or the Copycat Effect? Computer Game Research and Classification; Jørgen Stensland [2001]; Animation in; America; 10; Winsor McCay; John Canemaker [1980]; 11; The Live Wire:; Margaret J. Winkler and Animation History; J.B. Kaufman [2004]; 12; Disney and the Art World: The Early Years; Bill Mikulak [1996]; 13; The Art of Chuck Jones:; John Lewell Interviews the Veteran Hollywood Animator; Interview by John Lewell [1982]; 14; The Disney Studio at War.

Charles Solomon [1998]…