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…
This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdom's earliest days through the twentieth century. Written by a who's who of animation authorities, Funny pictures offers a stimulating range of views on why animation becam…
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.
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.
"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…
"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…
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…
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.
"The Art of Czech Animation is the first comprehensive English language account of Czech animation from the 1920s to the present, covering both 2D animation forms and CGI, with a focus upon the stop-motion films of Jirí Trnka, Hermína Týrlová, Jan Švankmajer and Jirí Barta. Stop…
"A continuation of 1994's groundbreaking Cartoons, Giannalberto Bendazzi's Animation: A World History is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive text of its kind, based on the idea that animation is an art form that deserves its own place in scholarship. Bendazzi delves beyond …
A continuation of 1994's groundbreaking Cartoons, Giannalberto Bendazzi's three-volume Animation: A World History is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive text of its kind, based on the idea that animation is an art form that deserves its own place in scholarship. Bendazzi de…
This volume brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from traditional animated film shorts to animation installation. The collection aims to foreground new critical perspectives on animation, and connect them to both historical and …
"This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from traditional animated film shorts to animation installation. The collection aims to foreground new critical perspectives on animation, an…
"This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from traditional animated film shorts to animation installation. The collection aims to foreground new critical perspectives on animation, an…
"The first American animators drew on popular black representations, many of which were caricatures rooted in the culture of southern slavery. During the 1920s, the advent of the sound-synchronized cartoon inspired animators to blend antebellum-era black stereotypes with the mod…
Storyboarding: a Critical History
by Price, Steven, Pallant, Chris
fromPalgrave Studies in Screenwriting
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
"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…