Understanding Animation

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Title:

Understanding Animation

Author:

Paul Wells

Date published:

1998

Publisher:

New York: Routledge

ISBN: 0415115965 (hbk), 0415115973 (pbk)

Description


Part history, part theory, part celebration, this book explores approaches to animation through an eclectic range of case studies from Betty Boop and 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, the author also discusses narrative, realism and Disney-esque hyper-realism, the construction of comedy, representations of race and gender, and animation and audience research.  The author explains the defining characteristics of animation as a cinematic form, outlines different models and methods which can be used to interpret and evaluate animated films, traces the development of animated film around the globe from Betty Boop and Wallace and Gromit.  The book includes notes toward the theory of animation, an explanation of its narrative strategies, an analysis how comic events are constructed, a discussion on representation,  focusing on gender and race, and primary research on animation and audiences.




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