Animated films and animation Books
John Libbey & Co Animation
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MH - Indiana University Press The Film Work of Norman McLaren
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£26.99
University of Toronto Press Politically Animated
Book SynopsisPolitically Animated studies the convergence of animation and actuality within films, television series, and digital shorts from across the Spanish-speaking world. It interrogates the many ways in which animation as a stylistic tool and storytelling device participates in political projects underpinning an array of non-fiction works. The case studies in the book cover a diverse geographical scope, including Spain, Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico. They critically analyse different works such as feature-length animated documentary films, a work of animated journalism, a short animated essay, and micro-short episodes from a televised animated documentary series. Jennifer Nagtegaal employs the term politically animated in reference to the ideological implications of choosing specific techniques and styles of animation within certain socio-historical and cultural contexts. Nagtegaal illuminates the creative union of animated documentary and the comics medium currenTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Towards Expansion and Liberation in the Field of Animated Documentary 1. Animating Agency: Children’s Articulated and Embodied Politics in Jairo Carrillo and Oscar Andrade’s Pequeñas voces / Little Voices (2010) 2. What’s in a(n) “Cómic Animado” (Animated Comic)? Poetics, Politics, and Personal Myths of Peronism in María Seoane’s Eva de la Argentina / Eva from Argentina (2011) 3. Animating Autobiography: Historical Memory and Catharsis in Manuel H. Martín’s Graphic Novel Documentary 30 años de oscuridad / 30 Years of Darkness (2012) 4. Simply A-musing: Aleix Saló’s Españistan / Spainistan (2011) as Animated Journalism in Spain’s Comic Public Sphere 5. Tracing Cultural Continuities: Rotoscope, Archons, and Archive 2.0 in Victor Orozco’s Essayistic Reality 2.0 (2012) 6. In Uncharted Waters and Totally Unmoored: The Transmedial Documentary Project Cuentos de viejos / Old Folks’ Tales (2013) Notes Bibliography Index
£50.15
University Press of Mississippi The Life and Times of Ward Kimball
Book SynopsisIn this engaging, cradle-to-grave biography, Todd James Pierce explores the life of Ward Kimball, a lead Disney animator who worked on characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Jiminy Cricket, the Cheshire Cat, and the Mad Hatter. Pierce defines the life of perhaps the most influential animator of the twentieth century.
£23.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Animating the Spirited Journeys and
Book SynopsisGetting in touch with a spiritual side is a craving many are unable voice, but readers and viewers seek out this connection through animation, cinema, anime, and art. This book offers a range of explorations of the meanings of the spirited and spiritual in the dynamic, polarized creative environment of the twenty-first century.
£81.75
University of Minnesota Press Sensations of History: Animation and New Media
Book SynopsisA phenomenological investigation into new media artwork and its relationship to history What does it mean to live in an era of emerging digital technologies? Are computers really as antihistorical as they often seem? Drawing on phenomenology’s investigation of time and history, Sensations of History uses encounters with new media art to inject more life into these questions, making profound contributions to our understanding of the digital age in the larger scope of history.Sensations of History combines close textual analysis of experimental new media artworks with in-depth discussions of key texts from the philosophical tradition of phenomenology. Through this inquiry, author James J. Hodge argues for the immense significance of new media art in examining just what historical experience means in a digital age. His beautiful, aphoristic style demystifies complex theories and ideas, making perplexing issues feel both graspable and intimate.Highlighting underappreciated, vibrant work in the fields of digital art and video, Sensations of History explores artists like Paul Chan, Phil Solomon, John F. Simon, and Barbara Lattanzi. Hodge’s provocative interpretations, which bring these artists into dialogue with well-known works, are perfect for scholars of cinema, media studies, art history, and literary studies. Ultimately, Sensations of History presents the compelling case that we are not witnessing the end of history—we are instead seeing its rejuvenation in a surprising variety of new media art.Trade Review"‘Time,’ wrote Gilles Deleuze, ‘takes thought.’ Sensations of History brilliantly lays out a new domain of temporal analysis, tracking how mediatic dimensions of time are at once enmeshed in and explicated by events of history. In a tour de force analysis of what can only be sensed in animation, James J. Hodge lets the other shoe drop: ‘History now takes animation.’"—Thomas Lamarre, author of The Anime Ecology"Sensations of History challenges common claims about the ahistorical tendencies of media, contending that digital artifacts are crucial to understanding historical experience in the twenty-first century. James J. Hodge supports this argument through original analyses of computational artworks, spambots, videogames, machinima films, and e-poetry. Throughout this book, thought-provoking encounters with digital media are also attempts to face a history characterized by deep opacity and multilayered ambivalence."—Patrick Jagoda, author of Network Aesthetics"In a sophisticated and much-needed challenge to entrenched notions that digital media is ahistorical, James J. Hodge urges readers to address digital inscription as ‘digital experience,’ contending that we urgently need to understand digital media’s fundamental transformation of history as an opportunity rather than a loss—as an aesthetic enrichment and sensory intensification of historical experience itself."—Mark B. N. Hansen, Duke University"In Hodge’s view, the old and the new do not belong to the same category, perhaps not even to the same world: the digital is not the antithesis of the old, it is really something different. The superbly analyzed new media art examples demonstrate though that these various and contradictory sensations and experiences of history do not end up in silence of muteness. Humans adapt to the technological world which is always ‘already there’ and they ceaselessly express, reshape, and reinvent their being in time."—Leonardo Reviews"Balancing this interdisciplinary scope with precise theoretical interventions, and doing so in a manner that is consistently rigorous, engaging, and accessible, it is not exaggerated to say that this is a truly profound step towards the articulation of a much needed theory of the historical aesthetics of encounter."—Critical Inquiry"Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art is a theoretically intense reading of contemporary scholarship on digital media, animation, inscription, and the meanings of historical experience."—Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television "Hodge provides a detailed roadmap for future scholarship, not only on history and “new” media, but also and more generally on the complex intersections of computational processes and human experiences."—InVisible Culture
£20.69
University of Minnesota Press Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology
Book SynopsisHow computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences Who would have thought that computer animation technologies developed in the second half of the twentieth century would become essential visualization tools in today’s biosciences? This book is the first to examine this phenomenon. Molecular Capture reveals how popular media consumption and biological knowledge production have converged in molecular animations—computer simulations of molecular and cellular processes that immerse viewers in the temporal unfolding of molecular worlds—to produce new regimes of seeing and knowing.Situating the development of this technology within an evolving field of historical, epistemological, and political negotiations, Adam Nocek argues that molecular animations not only represent a key transformation in the visual knowledge practices of life scientists but also bring into sharp focus fundamental mutations in power within neoliberal capitalism. In particular, he reveals how the convergence of the visual economies of science and entertainment in molecular animations extends neoliberal modes of governance to the perceptual practices of scientific subjects. Drawing on Alfred North Whitehead’s speculative metaphysics and Michel Foucault’s genealogy of governmentality, Nocek builds a media philosophy well equipped to examine the unique coordination of media cultures in this undertheorized form of scientific media. More specifically, he demonstrates how governmentality operates across visual practices in the biosciences and the popular mediasphere to shape a molecular animation apparatus that unites scientific knowledge and entertainment culture.Ultimately, Molecular Capture proposes that molecular animation is an achievement of governmental design. It weaves together speculative media philosophy, science and technology studies, and design theory to investigate how scientific knowledge practices are designed through media apparatuses.Trade Review"Thoughtful and deeply researched, Molecular Capture brings together history of science, media theory, and philosophy of representation, power, and governmentality to present a provocative argument about the relation of entertainment and science as crystallized in the form of molecular animation."—Kirsten Ostherr, director of the Medical Futures Lab and the Medical Humanities Program, Rice University"Putting aside traditional film history models, Molecular Capture theorizes the time-based molecular model’s emergence across the science-entertainment divide. Part history of animation and part speculative visual theory of science imaging, Molecular Capture shows us the extent to which our fascination with the molecular, and molecules themselves, move fluidly across the science-entertainment divide."—Lisa Cartwright, University of California, San DiegoTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: On Speculative Media PhilosophyPart I1. Molecular Entertainment2. Visuality and Experimental Knowledge Practices3. A Feeling for Theoretical BiologyPart II4. Eco-social Media5. Governing the SocialPart III6. The Animation Apparatus7. Epistemic CapturePostscript: A Prolegomenon to Governmental DesignAcknowledgmentsNotesVideography BibliographyIndex
£100.00
University of Minnesota Press The Flesh of Animation
Book SynopsisHow animation can reconnect us with bodily experiences Film and media studies scholarship has often argued that digital cinema and CGI provoke a sense of disembodiment in viewers; they are seen as merely fantastic or unreal. In her in-depth exploration of the phenomenology of animation, Sandra Annett offers a new perspective: that animated films and digital media in fact evoke vivid embodied sensations in viewers and connect them with the lifeworld of experience. Starting with the emergence of digital technologies in filmmaking in the 1980s, Annett argues that contemporary digital media is indebted to the longer history of animation. She looks at a wide range of animation—from Disney films to anime, electro swing music videos to Vocaloids—to explore how animation, through its material forms and visual styles, can evoke bodily sensations of touch, weight, and orientation in space. Each chapter discusses well-known forms of animation
£75.65
University Press of Mississippi Walt Disney: Conversations
Book SynopsisThe imagination of Walt Disney (1901-1966) is still seen in theme parks throughout the world bearing his name, on numerous live-action films and television specials, on toys and assorted merchandise, and on an international corporation known both for the high quality of its creative output and its ubiquity. Walt Disney: Conversations collects interviews and profiles of the man who created Mickey Mouse, and produced such full-length animated classics as Snow White, Cinderella, Fantasia, Bambi, The Lady and the Tramp, Dumbo, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, and Pinocchio, along with countless short cartoons. Bringing together over twenty pieces from the late 1920s to the late 1960s, this book traces Disney's career from the early classic Steamboat Willie to the construction of Disneyland, and the live-action ventures The Mickey Mouse Club and Mary Poppins. Walt Disney: Conversations shows how Disney saw his productions as shapers of popular culture and reveals how firmly he understood the issues of his time. Featuring an interview conducted by producer Cecil B. DeMille, Disney's testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and rarely seen pieces from the Disney corporation's archives, Walt Disney: Conversations reveals a complex visionary whose impact on animation, live-action film, television, and theme parks has never been equaled.
£23.96
University Press of Mississippi Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records
Book SynopsisAround the world there are grandparents, parents, and children who can still sing ditties by Tigger or Baloo the Bear or the Seven Dwarves. This staying power and global reach is in large part a testimony to the pizzazz of performers, songwriters, and other creative artists who worked with Walt Disney Records. Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records chronicles for the first time the fifty-year history of the Disney recording companies launched by Walt Disney and Roy Disney in the mid-1950s, when Disneyland Park, Davy Crockett, and the Mickey Mouse Club were taking the world by storm. The book provides a perspective on all-time Disney favorites and features anecdotes, reminiscences, and biographies of the artists who brought Disney magic to audio. Authors Tim Hollis and Greg Ehrbar go behind the scenes at the Walt Disney Studios and discover that in the early days Walt Disney and Roy Disney resisted going into the record business before the success of ""The Ballad of Davy Crockett"" ignited the in-house label. Along the way, the book traces the recording adventures of such Disney favorites as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Cinderella, Bambi, Jiminy Cricket, Winnie the Pooh, and even Walt Disney himself. Mouse Tracks reveals the struggles, major successes, and occasional misfires. Included are impressions and details of teen-pop princesses Annette Funicello and Hayley Mills, the Mary Poppins phenomenon, a Disney-style ""British Invasion,"" and a low period when sagging sales forced Walt Disney to suggest closing the division down. Complementing each chapter are brief performer biographies, reproductions of album covers and art, and facsimiles of related promotional material. Mouse Tracks is a collector's bonanza of information on this little-analyzed side of the Disney empire.Learn more about the book and the authors at www.mousetracksonline.com.
£27.96
University Press of Mississippi Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives
Book SynopsisJapanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives makes available for the first time to English readership a selection of viewpoints from media practitioners, designers, educators, and scholars working in the East Asian Pacific. This collection not only engages a multidisciplinary approach in understanding the subject of Japanese animation but also shows ways to research, teach, and more fully explore this multidimensional world. Presented in six sections, the translated essays cross-reference each other. The collection adopts a wide range of critical, historical, practical, and experimental approaches. This variety provides a creative and fascinating edge for both specialist and nonspecialist readers. Contributors' works share a common relevance, interest, and involvement despite their regional considerations and the different modes of analysis demonstrated. They form a composite of teaching and research ideas on Japanese animation.
£81.75
University Press of Mississippi Walt before Mickey: Disney’s Early Years, 1919–1928
Book SynopsisFor ten years before the creation of Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney struggled with, failed at, and eventually mastered the art and business of animation. Most biographies of his career begin in 1928, when Steamboat Willie was released. That first Disney Studio cartoon with synchronized sound made its main character--Mickey Mouse--an icon for generations.But Steamboat Willie was neither Disney's first cartoon nor Mickey Mouse's first appearance. Prior to this groundbreaking achievement, Walt Disney worked in a variety of venues and studios, refining what would become known as the Disney style. In Walt before Mickey: Disney's Early Years, 1919-1928, Timothy Susanin creates a portrait of the artist from age seventeen to the cusp of his international renown.After serving in the Red Cross in France after World War I, Walt Disney worked for advertising and commercial art in Kansas City. Walt used these experiences to create four studios--Kaycee Studios, Laugh-O-gram Films, Disney Brothers Studio, and Walt Disney Studio. Using company documents, private correspondence between Walt and his brother Roy, contemporary newspaper accounts, and new interviews with Disney's associates, Susanin traces Disney's path. The author shows Disney to be a complicated, resourceful man, especially during his early career. Walt before Mickey, a critical biography of a man at a crucial juncture, provides the ""missing decade"" that started Walt Disney's career and gave him the skills to become a name known worldwide.
£23.96
Wallflower Press Animation
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Secrets of Oscarwinning Animation Behind the scenes of 13 classic short animations
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£34.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Mad Eyed Misfits
Book SynopsisOne of the most stylistically original and provocative writers in animation returns with this informal sequel to his previous books on indie animation, Unsung Heroes of Animation and Animators Unearthed.In this collection, award-winning writer Chris Robinson looks at a wide range of films and filmmakers, including cult favourites Don Hertzfeldt, Adam Elliot, Masaaki Yuasa, Wong Ping, Bruce Bickford, Jodie Mack, Rosto, Suzan Pitt, Clyde Henry and Cartoon Saloon.Eclectic, opinionated, passionate and personal, Robinson's writing will amuse, confuse, infuriate and enlighten while introducing readers to some of the most astonishing and important animation artists from around the world.Table of ContentsChapter 1 ◾ Masaaki Yuasa Speaks in Many Colors Chapter 2 ◾ 52 Films, 1 Year: Meet John Morena Chapter 3 ◾ Passing on by Us: Clyde Peterson Talks Torrey Pines Chapter 4 ◾ Marcel, the King of Tervuren Chapter 5 ◾ "People Are Finally Listening": Indigenous Animation Rises Up Chapter 6 ◾ Fight! Fight! Fight!: Malcolm Sutherland’s Bout Chapter 7 ◾ Ghosts of a Different Dream: The Films of Mariusz WilczynskiChapter 8 ◾ Wondering Boy Poet: Bruce Bickford Chapter 9 ◾ The Burden of Dreams Chapter 10 ◾ Unity by Tobias Stretch Chapter 11 ◾ Don Hertzfelt’s Beautiful DaysChapter 12 ◾ Don Herzfeldt Talks World of Tomorrow II Chapter 13 ◾ Joy Street: Remembering Suzan Pitt Chapter 14 ◾ Nightlights in the Forest: Cartoon Saloon Chapter 15 ◾ Beautiful Maladies: The Uncanny World of Rosto Chapter 16 ◾ Špela Cˇadež’s Nighthawk Chapter 17 ◾ Kaspar Jancis’ Motel of Fools Chapter 18 ◾ The Moneygoround: Liu Jian’s Have a Nice DayChapter 19 ◾ Clyde Henry Talks GymnasiaChapter 20 ◾ The Crushed Dreams of a Magnificent Cake Chapter 21 ◾ The Frog, The Dog and The Devil: The Ballad of Bad WhiskeyChapter 22 ◾ Consuming Chris Sullivan Chapter 23 ◾ It’s a Good Life , If You Don’t Weaken: Luc Chamberland and Seth’s Dominion Chapter 24 ◾ Yield by Caleb WoodChapter 25 ◾ Visiting Ville Neuve With Felix Dufour-Laperrière Chapter 26 ◾ Where Is Here: Felix Dufour- Laperrière’s Archipelago Chapter 27 ◾ Laughing at Chaos: Alex Boya Talks Turbine Chapter 28 ◾ Banana Skins and Cigarette Butts: The Films of Adam Elliot Chapter 29 ◾ Pineapple Calamari Chapter 30 ◾ The Joys of Jodie Mack Chapter 31 ◾ Moving on With Ainslie HendersonChapter 32 ◾ Peeping Wong PingChapter 33 ◾ On the Weave of Construction: RISD Animation Chapter 34 ◾ Lesley the Pony Has an A+ Day
£18.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Simpsons
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£17.99
Thames and Hudson Ltd Cracking Animation The Aardman Book of 3D
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£33.59
DK Avatar El Camino del Agua. Diccionario Visual
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£27.00
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Animation Art
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£85.49
B.E.S. Publishing Stop Motion Animation How to Make and Share
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£21.09
Chronicle Books The Art of Toy Story 4 Toy Story Art Book Pixar
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£34.00
Hal Leonard Corporation The Lion Guard Music from the Disney Junior
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£15.29
At Bay Press Frame by Frame: An Animator's Journey
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£23.39
Sutherland House Books Animation Nation
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£22.79
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Von Propaganda Bis Poesie: Der Fruhe Sowjetische
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£70.11
