A Reader in animation studies/
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London:
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1997
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Table of Contents:
- New technologies: What is animation and who needs to know? an essay on definitions / Philip Kelly Denslow. "Realityʹ effects in computer animation / Lev Manovich. Second-order realism and post-modern aesthetics in computer animation / Andy Darley
- Text and context, analyses of individual films: The Quay brothersʹ The Epic of Gilgamesh and the ʹmetaphysics of obscenityʹ / Steve Weiner. Narrative strategies for resistance and protest in Eastern European animation / William Moritz. Putting themselves in the pictures; images of women in the work of Joanna Quinn, Candy Guard and Alison de Vere / Sandra Law. An analysis of Susan Pittʹs Asparagus and Joanna Priestleyʹs All my relations / Sharon Couzin. Clay animation comes out of the inkwell, The Fleischer brothers and clay animation / Michael Frierson. Bartoschʹs The Idea / William Moritz. Norman McLaren and Jules Engel, Post-modernists / William Mortiz. Disney, Warner Bros. and Japanese animation / Luca Raffaelli. Contemporary cartoons and cultural studies: The thief of Buena Vista; Disneyʹs Aladdin and Orientalism / Leslie Felperin. Animatophilia, cultural production and corporate interests, The case of Ren & Stimpy / Mark Langer
- Theoretical approaches: Francis Bacon and Walt Disney revisited / Simon Pummell. Body consciousness in the films of Jan Svankmajer / Paul Wells. Eisenstein and Stokes on Disney, film animation and omnipotence / Michael OʹPray. Towards a post-modern animated discourse; Bakhtin, intertextuality and the cartoon carnival / Terrance R. Lindvall and J. Matthew Melton. (Rewriting) history: Restoring the aesthetics of early abstract films / William Moritz. Resistance and subversion in animated films of the Nazi era; The case of Hans Fischerkoesen / William Moritz. European influences on early Disney feature films / Robin Allan, Norm Ferguson and the Latin American films of Walt Disney / J. B. Kaufman.