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Birth of an Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation Nicholas Sammond 9780822358404
RRP: $199.50$175.43In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its representation in the cartoons... -
Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood Eve Benhamou 9781474476133
RRP: $52.48$43.85Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood is the first in-depth study of Disney's latest animated output from the perspective of genre theory. Analysing a decade in Disney's history (2008-2018), Benhamou examines the multifaceted... -
The Art of Turbo Robert Abele 9781608872121
RRP: $79.80$67.39Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608872121Author Robert AbeleFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions -
Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Battle For Pumpkin King: A thrilling original graphic novel Walt Disney 9781800788008
RRP: $18.88$13.40Jack Skellington is the undisputed Pumpkin King of Halloween Town. But it wasn't always that way... discover the story behind Jack's title in this manga miniseries.Years ago, Jack and Oogie Boogie were close friends. Both eager to prove themselves, they... -
The Art of DreamWorks Animation: Celebrating 30 Years DreamWorks Animation 9781419772672
RRP: $304.50$213.30Celebrate 30 years of DreamWorks Animation's visually rich worlds with this luxurious edition of the studio's artistic achievements in both film and television DreamWorks Animation's teams of artists, writers, directors, producers, engineers, and... -
Hanna-Barbera, the Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age to Meddling Kids Greg Ehrbar 9781496851857
RRP: $62.90$42.40Whether it's Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo, the Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Top Cat, Huckleberry Hound, or hundreds of others, the creations of the Hanna-Barbera studio continue to delight generations worldwide. The groundbreaking company employed thousands in the... -
The Avatar Television Franchise: Storytelling, Identity, Trauma, and Fandom Francis M. Agnoli (Independent scholar, USA) 9781501387210
$64.03Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-08) and its sequel The Legend of Korra (2012-14) are among the most acclaimed and influential U.S. animated television series of the 21st century. Yet, despite their elevated status, there have been few... -
The Flesh of Animation: Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media Sandra Annett 9781517911584
RRP: $186.90$163.84How 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... -
Women and Film Animation: A Feminist Corpus at the National Film Board of Canada 1939-1989 Marie-Josee Saint-Pierre 9781032694399
RRP: $273.00$235.37The creations of female animation filmmakers are recognized all over the world while being, paradoxically, unknown to the general public. Women and Film Animation: A Feminist Corpus at the National Film Board of Canada 1939-1989 brings out of the shadows... -
The Disney Book New Edition: A Celebration of the World of Disney: Centenary Edition Jim Fanning 9780744084498
RRP: $84.00$56.26Celebrate more than 100 years of magical Disney storytelling.The ideal gift for Disney, animation, and movie fans! From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Wish, Mary Poppins to The Little Mermaid, Disneyland to Tokyo DisneySea, and fireworks to fan... -
Genndy Tartakovsky: Sincerity in Animation Kwasu David Tembo 9781501388415
$62.98Genndy Tartakovsky is widely regarded as a pioneer in contemporary Western animation of the 20th and 21st centuries. His groundbreaking and prolific output, ranging from Dexter's Laboratory to Samurai Jack and Sym-Bionic Titan, has become a mainstay of... -
The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture Paul Wells 9780813544151
RRP: $60.88$55.67Cartoonists and animators have given animals human characteristics for so long that audiences are now accustomed to seeing Bugs Bunny singing opera and Mickey Mouse walking his dog Pluto. The Animated Bestiary critically evaluates the depiction of... -
The Art of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted Barbara Robertson 9781608870752
RRP: $69.30$62.14The Art of Madagascar 3 provides a fascinating look at the character design, development art, and special effects that make up this stunning CG movie from the artists at DreamWorks Animation. In the third installment of the Madagascar series, Alex the... -
Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation Maya Balakirsky Katz 9780813577012
RRP: $260.40$227.49In the American imagination, the Soviet Union was a drab cultural wasteland, a place where playful creative work and individualism was heavily regulated and censored. Yet despite state control, some cultural industries flourished in the Soviet era,... -
Television Goes to the Movies Jonathan Gray 9781138476431
RRP: $283.50$248.12Television and film have always been connected, but recent years have seen them overlapping, collaborating, and moving towards each other in ever more ways. Set amidst this moment of unprecedented synergy, this book examines how television and film... -
Craft Notes for Animators: A Perspective on a 21st Century Career Ed Hooks 9781138854338
RRP: $283.50$248.12If Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs represented the Animation industry's infancy, Ed Hooks thinks that the current production line of big-budget features is its artistically awkward adolescence. While a well-funded marketing machine can conceal... -
Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation: Becoming-Animated Sylvie Bissonnette 9781138483590
RRP: $283.50$248.12This book combines insights from the humanities and modern neuroscience to explore the contribution of affect and embodiment on meaning-making in case studies from animation, video games, and virtual worlds.As we interact more and more with animated... -
Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives Masao Yokota 9781617038099
$214.18Japanese 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... -
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit Ross Anderson 9781496822284
$215.23Who Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology, and circumstances that is historically, culturally, and aesthetically momentous. By the 1980s, animation seemed a dying art. Not even the Walt Disney Company, which had already won over... -
Who's Who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film and Television's Award-Winning and Legendary Animators Jeff Lenburg 9781557836717
$43.24Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557836717Author Jeff LenburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationSeries Applause Books -
Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons Hannah Frank 9780520303621
RRP: $63.00$58.63At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this beautifully written and deeply researched study,... -
The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney Michael Barrier 9780520256194
RRP: $52.50$43.37Walt Disney (1901-1966) was one of the most significant creative forces of the twentieth century, a man who made a lasting impact on the art of the animated film, the history of American business, and the evolution of twentieth-century American culture... -
Animating Difference: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children C. Richard King, Washington State University 9780742560826
RRP: $63.00$57.73Animating Difference studies the way race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender are portrayed in recent animated films from 1990 through the present. Ranging from Aladdin to Toy Story to Up, these popular films are key media through which children (and... -
The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood's Coming of Age Rama Venkatasawmy 9780739176214
RRP: $231.00$203.68The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood's Coming of Age, by Rama Venkatasawmy, analyzes how the Hollywood cinema industry's visual effects applications have not only motivated the expansion of filmmaking praxis, they have also influenced... -
Forgotten Disney: Essays on the Lesser-Known Productions Kathy Merlock Jackson, 9781476689395
$111.43This work demonstrates that not everything that Disney touched turned to gold. In its first 100 years, the company had major successes that transformed filmmaking and culture, but it also had its share of unfinished projects, unmet expectations, and... -
Quick Sketching with Ron Husband: Revised and Expanded Ron Husband 9781138336759
RRP: $273.00$236.63Quick Sketching with Ron Husband offers instruction to quick sketching and all its techniques. From observing positive and negative space and learning to recognize simple shapes in complex forms to action analysis and using line of action, this Disney... -
Emotion in Animated Films Meike Uhrig 9781138303287
RRP: $283.50$248.96Ranging from blockbuster movies to experimental shorts or documentaries to scientific research, computer animation shapes a great part of media communication processes today. Be it the portrayal of emotional characters in moving films or the creation of... -
That's Enough Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900-1960 Henry T. Sampson 9780810832503
RRP: $226.80$201.58An authoritative and valuable resource for students and scholars of film animation and African-American history, film buffs, and casual readers. It is the first and only book to detail the history of black images in animated cartoons. Using... -
The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood's Coming of Age Rama Venkatasawmy 9780739197660
RRP: $111.30$98.68The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood's Coming of Age, by Rama Venkatasawmy, analyzes how the Hollywood cinema industry's visual effects applications have not only motivated the expansion of filmmaking praxis, they have also influenced... -
Timing for Animation, 40th Anniversary Edition Harold Whitaker 9780367689353
RRP: $273.00$234.53Timing for Animation has been one of the pillars of animation since it was first published in 1981. Now this 40th anniversary edition captures the focus of the original and enhances this new edition with fresh images, techniques, and advice from... -
John Lasseter Richard Neupert 9780252081644
RRP: $35.68$32.84Celebrated as Pixar's "Chief Creative Officer," John Lasseter is a revolutionary figure in animation history and one of today's most important filmmakers. Lasseter films from Luxo Jr. to Toy Story and Cars 2 highlighted his gift for creating emotionally... -
The Corners are Glowing: Selected Writings from the Ottawa International Animation Festival Chris Robinson 9781032263793
RRP: $273.00$235.37The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) began in 1976 and stands today as one of the oldest and largest animation events in the world. One of the unique features of the OIAF is the inclusion of commissioned writings that provide attendees with... -
Coraline: A Closer Look at Studio LAIKA's Stop-Motion Witchcraft Dr. Mihaela Mihailova (San Francisco State University, USA) 9781501347863
RRP: $231.00$230.98Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009) is stop-motion studio LAIKA's feature-length debut based on the popular children's novel by British author Neil Gaiman. Heralding a revival in global interest in stop-motion animation, the film is both an international... -
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: New Perspectives on Production, Reception, Legacy Chris Pallant (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK) 9781501351228
$232.03This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937) occupies a central place within the history of global... -
Arab Animation: Images of Identity Omar Sayfo 9781474479486
$245.57Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474479486Author Omar SayfoFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm)... -
Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics Ryan Pierson (Assistant Professor of Film, Assistant Professor of Film, University of Calgary) 9780190949754
RRP: $205.80$169.03How can we describe movements in animated films? In Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics, Ryan Pierson introduces a powerful new method for the study of animation. By looking for figures--arrangements that seem to intuitively hold together--and... -
The Art of Cinematic Storytelling: A Visual Guide to Planning Shots, Cuts, and Transitions Kelly Gordon Brine 9780190054328
RRP: $246.75$193.18To dramatize a story using moving images, a director must have a full understanding of the meaning and emotional effect of all the various types of shots and cuts that are available to advance the story. Drawing upon his extensive experience as a...