British Animation: The Channel 4 Factor (Paperback)

by Clare Kitson (Author)

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British Animation: The Channel 4 Factor takes a look at the glory years of Britian's Channel 4 and their dedication to bringing quality animation to television. Since 1982, they've aired works such as The Snowman, When the Wind Blows, Street of Crocodiles, Girls Night Out, Feet of Song, The Village, Creature Comforts, Screenplay, Bob's Birthday, Abductees, City Paradise, Rabbit and Peter and the Wolf. In addition to this amazing line-up of animation, the channel also set up the Animate initiative with the Arts Council of England, and backed the animator-in-residence program hosted by the British Film Institute's Museum of the Moving Image. The book, which will be published in February by Indiana University Press, should offer plenty of insider details because it's written by Clare Kitson, who was the commissioning editor at Channel 4 from 1989 until 1999. Channel 4 is one of the bright spots in TV animation history and I'm looking forward to learning more about the people and circumstances that made their artistic approach to TV animation possible.Amid Amidi, Cartoon Brew

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"The book... offer[s] plenty of insider details because it's written by Clare Kitson, who was the commissioning editor at Channel 4 from 1989 until 1999. Channel 4 is one of the bright spots in TV animation history..." -- Amid Amidi, Cartoon Brew

"Clare Kitson has written a characteristically engaging,pertinently-detailed and wrily-amusing study of the heydays of animated film in Britain, in the 1980s and 1990s as championed by the ground-breaking new national, commercial television Channel 4....The book should appeal to anyone at all drawn to animation, as a casual spectator, serious student,or professional practitioner." -- Phillip Bergson's blog, Fest 21.com, 1/16/09

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Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (January 30, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0253220963
• ISBN-13: 978-0253220967
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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