Description
Book SynopsisA continuation of 1994's groundbreaking Cartoons, Giannalberto Bendazzi's Animation: A World History is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive text of its kind, based on the idea that animation is an art form that deserves its own place in scholarship. Bendazzi delves beyond just Disney, offering readers glimpses into the animation of Russia, Africa, Latin America, and other often-neglected areas and introducing over fifty previously undiscovered artists. Full of first-hand, never before investigated, and elsewhere unavailable information, Animation: A World History encompasses the history of animation production on every continent over the span of three centuries.
Volume I traces the roots and predecessors of modern animation, the history behind Émile Cohl''s Fantasmagorie, and twenty years of silent animated films. Encompassing the formative years of the art form through its Golden Age, this book accounts for animation history through 1950 and
Table of Contents
Vol 1:
- FOUNDATIONS
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- BEFORE FANTASMAGORIE
- THE SILENT PIONEERS
- SILENT AMERICA 1
- SILENT AMERICA 2
- SILENT EUROPE
- SILENT ASIA
- SILENT LATIN AMERICA
- SILENT AFRICA
- SILENT OCEANIA
- THE GOLDEN AGE
- AMERICA LAUGHS!
- EUROPE
- SOVIET UNION
- ASIA
- LATIN AMERICA
- AFRICA
