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Pervasive Animation

Suzanne Buchan
Pervasive Animation Book PDF

Author : Suzanne Buchan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136519550

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Pervasive Animation by Suzanne Buchan Pdf

This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic experimental and independent shorts to digital animation and installation. The collection - that is also a philosophy of animation - foregrounds new critical perspectives on animation, connects them to historical and contemporary philosophical and theoretical contexts and production practice, and expands the existing canon. Throughout, contributors offer an interdisciplinary roadmap of new directions in film and animation studies, discussing animation in relationship to aesthetics, ideology, philosophy, historiography, visualization, genealogies, spectatorship, representation, technologies, and material culture.

New York's Animation Culture

Kristian Moen
New York s Animation Culture Book PDF

Author : Kristian Moen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030279318

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New York's Animation Culture by Kristian Moen Pdf

This book reveals and explores the thriving animation culture in midtown Manhattan, the World’s Fair, art galleries and cinemas during a vibrant period of artistic, commercial and industrial activity in New York City. Alongside a detailed investigation of animated film at the time – ranging from the abstract works of Mary Ellen Bute and Norman McLaren to the exhibition practices of the Disney Studios and the New York World’s Fair – New York’s Animation Culture examines a host of other animated forms, including moving dioramas, illuminated billboards, industrial displays, gallery exhibitions, mobile murals, and shop windows. In this innovative microhistory of animation, Moen combines the study of art, culture, design and film to offer a fine-grained account of an especially lively animation culture that was seen as creating new media, expanding the cinema experience, giving expression to utopian dreams of modernity, and presenting dynamic visions of a kinetic future.

Experimental and Expanded Animation

Vicky Smith,Nicky Hamlyn
Experimental and Expanded Animation Book PDF

Author : Vicky Smith,Nicky Hamlyn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319738734

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Experimental and Expanded Animation by Vicky Smith,Nicky Hamlyn Pdf

This book discusses developments and continuities in experimental animation that, since Robert Russet and Cecile Starr’s Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art (1976), has proliferated in the context of expanded cinema, performance and live ‘making’ and is today exhibited in galleries, public sites and online. With reference to historical, critical, phenomenological and inter-disciplinary approaches, international researchers offer new and diverse methodologies for thinking through these myriad animation practices. This volume addresses fundamental questions of form, such as drawing and the line, but also broadens out to encompass topics such as the inter-medial, post-humanism, the real, fakeness and fabrication, causation, new forms of synthetic space, ecology, critical re-workings of cartoons, and process as narrative. This book will appeal to cross and inter-disciplinary researchers, animation practitioners, scholars, teachers and students from Fine Art, Film and Media Studies, Philosophy and Aesthetics.

Animation – Process, Cognition and Actuality

Dan Torre
Animation Process Cognition and Actuality Book PDF

Author : Dan Torre
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501308161

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Animation – Process, Cognition and Actuality by Dan Torre Pdf

Animation - Process, Cognition and Actuality presents a uniquely philosophical and multi-disciplinary approach to the scholarly study of animation, by using the principles of process philosophy and Deleuzian film aesthetics to discuss animation practices, from early optical devices to contemporary urban design and installations. Some of the original theories presented are a process-philosophy based theory of animation; a cognitive theory of animation; a new theoretical approach to the animated documentary; an original investigative approach to animation; and unique considerations as to the convergence of animation and actuality. Numerous animated examples (from all eras and representing a wide range of techniques and approaches – including television shows and video games) are examined, such as Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Madame Tutli-Putli (2007), Gertie the Dinosaur (1914), The Peanuts Movie (2015), Grand Theft Auto V (2013) and Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist (1995–2000). Divided into three sections, each to build logically upon each other, Dan Torre first considers animation in terms of process and process philosophy, which allows the reader to contemplate animation in a number of unique ways. Torre then examines animation in more conceptual terms in comparing it to the processes of human cognition. This is followed by an exploration of some of the ways in which we might interpret or 'read' particular aspects of animation, such as animated performance, stop-motion, anthropomorphism, video games, and various hybrid forms of animation. He finishes by guiding the discussion of animation back to the more tangible and concrete as it considers animation within the context of the actual world. With a genuinely distinctive approach to the study of animation, Torre offers fresh philosophical and practical insights that prompt an engagement with the definitions and dynamics of the form, and its current literature.

Animation and Memory

Maarten van Gageldonk,László Munteán,Ali Shobeiri
Animation and Memory Book PDF

Author : Maarten van Gageldonk,László Munteán,Ali Shobeiri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030348885

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Animation and Memory by Maarten van Gageldonk,László Munteán,Ali Shobeiri Pdf

​This book examines the role of memory in animation, as well as the ways in which the medium of animation can function as a technology of remembering and forgetting. By doing so, it establishes a platform for the cross-fertilization between the burgeoning fields of animation studies and memory studies. By analyzing a wide range of different animation types, from stop motion to computer animation, and from cell animated cartoons to painted animation, this book explores the ways in which animation can function as a representational medium. The five parts of the book discuss the interrelation of animation and memory through the lens of materiality, corporeality, animation techniques, the city, and animated documentaries. These discussions raise a number of questions: how do animation films bring forth personal and collective pasts? What is the role of found footage, objects, and sound in the material and affective dimensions of animation? How does animation serve political ends? The essays in this volume offer answers to these questions through a wide variety of case studies and contexts. The book will appeal to both a broad academic and a more general readership with an interest in animation studies, memory studies, cultural studies, comparative visual arts, and media studies. Chapter “Introduction” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

The Art of Czech Animation

Adam Whybray
The Art of Czech Animation Book PDF

Author : Adam Whybray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350104648

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The Art of Czech Animation by Adam Whybray Pdf

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-motion is a highly embodied form of animation and The Art of Czech Animation develops a new materialist approach to studying these films. Instead of imposing top-down Film Theory onto its case studies, the book's analysis is built up from close readings of the films themselves, with particular attention given to their non-human objects. In a time of environmental crisis, the unique way Czech animated films use allegory to de-centre the human world and give a voice to non-human aspects of the natural world points us towards a means by which culture can increase ecological awareness in viewers. Such a refutation of a human-centred view of the world was contrary to communist orthodoxy and it remains so under late-stage consumer-capitalism. As such, these films do not only offer beautiful examples of allegory, but stand as models of political dissent. The Art of Czech Animation is a unique endeavour of film philosophy to provide a materialist appraisal of a heretofore neglected strand of Central-Eastern European cinema.

Experimental Animation

Miriam Harris,Lilly Husbands,Paul Taberham
Experimental Animation Book PDF

Author : Miriam Harris,Lilly Husbands,Paul Taberham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351788007

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Experimental Animation by Miriam Harris,Lilly Husbands,Paul Taberham Pdf

Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital, focuses on both experimental animation’s deep roots in the twentieth century, and its current position in the twenty-first century media landscape. Each chapter incorporates a variety of theoretical lenses, including historical, materialist, phenomenological and scientific perspectives. Acknowledging that process is a fundamental operation underlining experimental practice, the book includes not only chapters by international academics, but also interviews with well-known experimental animation practitioners such as William Kentridge, Jodie Mack, Larry Cuba, Martha Colburn and Max Hattler. These interviews document both their creative process and thoughts about experimental animation’s ontology to give readers insight into contemporary practice. Global in its scope, the book features and discusses lesser known practitioners and unique case studies, offering both undergraduate and graduate students a collection of valuable contributions to film and animation studies.

Animated Landscapes

Chris Pallant
Animated Landscapes Book PDF

Author : Chris Pallant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781628923506

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Animated Landscapes by Chris Pallant Pdf

Winner of the 2017 McLaren-Lambart Award for Best Book on the Subject of Animation Studying landscape in cinema isn't quite new; it'd be hard to imagine Woody Allen without New York, or the French New Wave without Paris. But the focus on live-action cinema leaves a significant gap in studying animated films. With the almost total pervasiveness of animation today, this collection provides the reader with a greater sense of how the animated landscapes of the present relate to those of the past. Including essays from international perspectives, Animated Landscapes introduces an idea that has seemed, literally, to be in the background of animation studies. The collection provides a timely counterpoint to the dominance of character (be that either animated characters such as Mickey Mouse or real world personalities such as Walt Disney) that exists within animation scholarship (and film studies more generally). Chapters address a wide range of topics including history, case studies in national contexts (including Australia, Japan, China and Latvia), the traversal of animated landscape, the animation of fantastical landscapes, and the animation of interactive landscapes. Animated Landscapes promises to be an invaluable addition to the existing literature, for the most overlooked aspect of animation.

Circus, Science and Technology

Anna-Sophie Jürgens
Circus Science and Technology Book PDF

Author : Anna-Sophie Jürgens
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030432980

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Circus, Science and Technology by Anna-Sophie Jürgens Pdf

This book explores the circus as a site in and through which science and technology are represented in popular culture. Across eight chapters written by leading scholars – from fields as varied as performance and circus studies, art, media and cultural history, and engineering – the book discusses to what extent the engineering of circus and performing bodies can be understood as a strategy to promote awe, how technological inventions have shaped circus and the cultures it helps constitute, and how much of a mutual shaping this is. What kind of cultural and aesthetic effects does engineering in circus contexts achieve? How do technological inventions and innovations impact on the circus? How does the link between circus and technology manifest in representations and interpretations – imaginaries – of the circus in other media and popular culture? Circus, Science and Technology examines the ways circus can provide a versatile frame for interpreting our relationship with technology.

The Animation Studies Reader

Nichola Dobson,Annabelle Honess Roe,Amy Ratelle,Caroline Ruddell
The Animation Studies Reader Book PDF

Author : Nichola Dobson,Annabelle Honess Roe,Amy Ratelle,Caroline Ruddell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501332630

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The Animation Studies Reader by Nichola Dobson,Annabelle Honess Roe,Amy Ratelle,Caroline Ruddell Pdf

The Animation Studies Reader brings together both key writings within animation studies and new material in emerging areas of the field. The collection provides readers with seminal texts that ground animation studies within the contexts of theory and aesthetics, form and genre, and issues of representation. The first section collates key readings on animation theory, on how we might conceptualise animation, and on some of the fundamental qualities of animation. New material is also introduced in this section specifically addressing questions raised by the nature, style and materiality of animation. The second section outlines some of the main forms that animation takes, which includes discussions of genre. Although this section cannot be exhaustive, the material chosen is particularly useful as it provides samples of analysis that can illuminate some of the issues the first section of the book raises. The third section focuses on issues of representation and how the medium of animation might have an impact on how bodies, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity are represented. These representations can only be read through an understanding of the questions that the first two sections of the book raise; we can only decode these representations if we take into account form and genre, and theoretical conceptualisations such as visual pleasure, spectacle, the uncanny, realism etc.

Fantasy/Animation

Christopher Holliday,Alexander Sergeant
Fantasy Animation Book PDF

Author : Christopher Holliday,Alexander Sergeant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351681414

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Fantasy/Animation by Christopher Holliday,Alexander Sergeant Pdf

This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining our collective expectations and experiences of fantasy cinema, just as fantasy storytelling has often served as inspiration for our most popular animated film and television. Bringing together contributions from world-renowned film and media scholars, Fantasy/Animation considers the various historical, theoretical, and cultural ramifications of the animated fantasy film. This collection provides a range of chapters on subjects including Disney, Pixar, and Studio Ghibli, filmmakers such as Ralph Bakshi and James Cameron, and on film and television franchises such as Dreamworks’ How To Train Your Dragon (2010–) and HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–).

Animation in China

Sean Macdonald
Animation in China Book PDF

Author : Sean Macdonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317382164

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Animation in China by Sean Macdonald Pdf

By the turn of the 21st century, animation production has grown to thousands of hours a year in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Despite this, and unlike American blockbuster productions and the diverse genres of Japanese anime, much animation from the PRC remains relatively unknown. This book is an historical and theoretical study of animation in the PRC. Although the Wan Brothers produced the first feature length animated film in 1941, the industry as we know it today truly began in the 1950s at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio (SAFS), which remained the sole animation studio until the 1980s. Considering animation in China as a convergence of the institutions of education, fine arts, literature, popular culture, and film, the book takes comparative approaches that link SAFS animation to contemporary cultural production including American and Japanese animation, Pop Art, and mass media theory. Through readings of classic films such as Princess Iron Fan, Uproar in Heaven, Princess Peacock, and Nezha Conquers the Dragon King, this study represents a revisionist history of animation in the PRC as a form of "postmodernism with Chinese characteristics." As a theoretical exploration of animation in the People’s Republic of China, this book will appeal greatly to students and scholars of animation, film studies, Chinese studies, cultural studies, political and cultural theory.

Identity in Animation

Jane Batkin
Identity in Animation Book PDF

Author : Jane Batkin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317533252

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Identity in Animation by Jane Batkin Pdf

Identity in Animation: A Journey into Self, Difference, Culture and the Body uncovers the meaning behind some of the most influential characters in the history of animation and questions their unique sense of who they are and how they are formed. Jane Batkin explores how identity politics shape the inner psychology of the character and their exterior motivation, often buoyed along by their questioning of ‘place’ and ‘belonging’ and driven by issues of self, difference, gender and the body. Through this, Identity in Animation illustrates and questions the construction of stereotypes as well as unconventional representations within American, European and Eastern animation. It does so with examples such as the strong gender tropes of Japan’s Hayao Miyazaki, the strange relationships created by Australian director Adam Elliot and Nick Park’s depiction of Britishness. In addition, this book discusses Betty Boop’s sexuality and ultimate repression, Warner Bros’ anarchic, self-aware characters and Disney’s fascinating representation of self and society. Identity in Animation is an ideal book for students and researchers of animation studies, as well as any media and film studies students taking modules on animation as part of their course.

Animation and Advertising

Malcolm Cook,Kirsten Moana Thompson
Animation and Advertising Book PDF

Author : Malcolm Cook,Kirsten Moana Thompson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030279394

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Animation and Advertising by Malcolm Cook,Kirsten Moana Thompson Pdf

Throughout its history, animation has been fundamentally shaped by its application to promotion and marketing, with animation playing a vital role in advertising history. In individual case study chapters this book addresses, among others, the role of promotion and advertising for anime, Disney, MTV, Lotte Reiniger, Pixar and George Pal, and highlights American, Indian, Japanese, and European examples. This collection reviews the history of famous animation studios and artists, and rediscovers overlooked ones. It situates animated advertising within the context of a diverse intermedial and multi-platform media environment, influenced by print, radio and digital practices, and expanding beyond cinema and television screens into the workplace, theme park, trade expo and urban environment. It reveals the part that animation has played in shaping our consumption of particular brands and commodities, and assesses the ways in which animated advertising has both changed and been changed by the technologies and media that supported it, including digital production and distribution in the present day. Challenging the traditional privileging of art or entertainment over commercial animation, Animation and Advertising establishes a new and rich field of research, and raises many new questions concerning particular animation and media histories, and our methods for researching them.

Software, Animation and the Moving Image

A. Wood
Software Animation and the Moving Image Book PDF

Author : A. Wood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781137448859

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Software, Animation and the Moving Image by A. Wood Pdf

Software, Animation and the Moving Image brings a unique perspective to the study of computer-generated animation by placing interviews undertaken with animators alongside an analysis of the user interface of animation software. Wood develops a novel framework for considering computer-generated images found in visual effects and animations.