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Animated film is commonly perceived as children's play and is often neglected as a serious form of cinematic art. With Understanding Animation, Paul Wells aims to change that.
Animated film is commonly perceived as children's play and is often neglected as a serious form of cinematic art. With Understanding Animation, Paul Wells aims to change that.
Part history, part theory, part celebration, this book explores approaches to animation through an eclectic range of case studies from Betty Boop's Snow White, to Jan Svankmajer's Jabberwocky. Opening with a discussion of the early history of animation through experimental figures like Emile Reynaud and J. Stuart Blackton, Wells also discusses narrative, realism and Disney-esque hyper-realism, the construction of comedy, representations of race and gender, the construction of comedy, and animation and audience research. Engagingly written, Understanding Animation demonstrates that animated film has much to tell us about ourselves, the culture we live in, and our perceptions of cinematic art in the twentieth century.
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Paul Wells is Senior Lecturer at DeMontfort University, Leicester.
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To animate, and the related words, animation, animated and animator all derive from the latin verb, animare, which means 'to give life to', and within the context of the animated film, this largely means the artificial creation of the illusion of movement in inanimate lines and forms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
orthodox animation, developmental animation, experimental animation, clay animation, animated form, documentary tendency, puppet animation, primal motives, comic events, feminine aesthetic, animated film, action abstraction, cel animation, cartoon animation, puppet figures, city cousin, cartoon form, associative relations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Warner Brothers, Snow White, Road Runner, Mickey Mouse, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Betty Boop, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Donald Duck, Duck Amuck, Jan Svankmajer, Night Out, Olive Oyl, Walt Disney, Soda Jerks, The Cat Came Back, The Jungle Book, World War, Creature Comforts, Eastern European, Bob Clampett, Daddy's Little Bit of Dresden China, Disney Studios, John Wayne New!
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To animate, and the related words, animation, animated and animator all derive from the latin verb, animare, which means 'to give life to', and within the context of the animated film, this largely means the artificial creation of the illusion of movement in inanimate lines and forms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
orthodox animation, developmental animation, experimental animation, clay animation, animated form, documentary tendency, puppet animation, primal motives, comic events, feminine aesthetic, animated film, action abstraction, cel animation, cartoon animation, puppet figures, city cousin, cartoon form, associative relations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Warner Brothers, Snow White, Road Runner, Mickey Mouse, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Betty Boop, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Donald Duck, Duck Amuck, Jan Svankmajer, Night Out, Olive Oyl, Walt Disney, Soda Jerks, The Cat Came Back, The Jungle Book, World War, Creature Comforts, Eastern European, Bob Clampett, Daddy's Little Bit of Dresden China, Disney Studios, John Wayne New!
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- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Pictureback(R)) by RH Disney on 8 pages
- Betty Boop by Max Fleischer on 6 pages
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Disney) by Walt Disney on 5 pages
- Wrong Trousers, The by Nick Park on 4 pages
- Little Nemo by Winsor McCay on 4 pages
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- Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation by Susan J. Napier on 6 pages
- Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation by Susan J. Napier on 6 pages
- Animation and America by Paul Wells on 6 pages
- Tunes for 'Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon by Daniel Goldmark in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Prime Time Animation: Television Animation and American Culture by MARK HARRISON in Front Matter, and page 203
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