Moving Pictures

A History of American Animation from Gertie to Pixar and Beyond

Darl Larsen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

334 Seiten

2024
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-6037-4 (ISBN)

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A fascinating look at the history of film and television animation in the United States, from the animated comic strips of the early 1900s to the proliferation of animation companies and hit films of the present.

Take a deep dive into the history of cinematic animation in the United States with the "remarkably thorough and detailed" (Choice) book that Publishers Weekly says is "a lively chronicle of a perennially evolving medium."
Animated films started with simple sequential drawings photographed one at a time—little bits of comedic fluff to make amateur title scenes or surreal escapist sequences. Today, animation is a worldwide industry valued at nearly $300 billion and still growing in scope and popularity.
In Moving Pictures, Darl Larsen playfully lays out the history of American animation as it transitioned from vaudeville sub-feature to craftsman-like artistry to industrial diversion and, ultimately, to theatrical regulars on par with blockbusters. Larsen identifies and discusses the major figures, movements, and studios across the nearly 120 years of animation in the United States. Progressing chronologically, the book follows animation from stage performance through to its use as wartime propaganda, its seven-minute heyday and decamp to television, and finally the years of struggle as cartoons became feature films.
Covering everything from the generations preceding Mickey Mouse to recent releases such as Super Mario Bros., Moving Pictures is an essential read for movie fans and a nostalgic revisiting of some of America’s favorite films.

Darl Larsen is program director and professor of film and animation studies at Brigham Young University, Media Arts Department, and affiliated with the Center for Animation at BYU.

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Blackton Begat McCay Begat Bray Begat…
Chapter 2: Inking the Path to Industry
Chapter 3: A Cat, a Clown, and some Fables
Chapter 4: The Rise and Rise of Disney: 1919-1932
Chapter 5: 1930s Undercard - Schlesinger, Harman-Ising, Van Beuren
Chapter 6: 1930s Main Event - Disney vs. Fleischer
Chapter 7: World War II: Cartoons, the Essential Industry
Chapter 8: Postwar or Pre-TV?
Chapter 9: UPA and/Against Disney
Chapter 10: Magnavox Destiny: “The story book closes”
Chapter 11: From Retrograde to Renaissance
Bibliography
Notes
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	18.05.2024
Zusatzinfo	19 BW Photos
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 237 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5381-6037-4 / 1538160374
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-6037-4 / 9781538160374
Zustand	Neuware