Including animation in your classroom can: • improve literacy and numeracy • develop critical thinking, communication and problem-solving skills • enhance teamwork and negotiation • encourage creativity
This toolkit, together with an extensive companion website, will give you the confidence to use animation in your classroom.
Anime: A Critical Introduction maps the genres that have thrived within Japanese animation culture, and shows how a wide range of commentators have made sense of anime through discussions of its generic landscape.
Among their many idiosyncrasies, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, remained serious cartoon aficionados throughout their lives.
Rediscovered Classics of Japanese Animation is the first academic work to examine World Masterpiece Theater (Sekai Meisaku Gekijo, 1969-2009), which popularized the practice of adapting foreign children's books into long-running animated series and laid the groundwork for powerhouses like Studio Ghibli.
Speculative science fiction, with its underlying socio-political dialogue, represents an important intersection of popular culture and public discourse.
Sugar, spice, and everything nice: these were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect little girls and the perfect recipes for breakfast foods, entrees, desserts, snacks, and drinks in The Powerpuff Girls: The Official Cookbook.
Formed by a small group of university students in the early 1980s, Studio Gainax is now one of the most adventurous and widely esteemed anime companies on the scene.
She Animates examines the work of twelve female animation directors in the Soviet Union and Russia, who have long been overlooked by film scholars and historians.
The media industries in the United States and Japan are similar in much the same way different animal species are: while a horse and a kangaroo share maybe 95% of their DNA, they're nonetheless very different animals-and so it is with manga and anime in Japanese and Hollywood animation, movies, and television.
Demystifying Disney: A History of Disney Feature Animation provides a comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date examination of the Disney studio's evolution through its animated films.
Ideal choice for fans of the LEGO movie who want to try stop-motion animation in their own moviesProvides practical tips on how to film using stop-motion animationProfessional advice on art, lighting, effects, and moreDid you love the LEGO movie?
Unprecedented kinds of experience, and new modes of life, are now produced by simulations, from the CGI of Hollywood blockbusters to animal cloning to increasingly sophisticated military training software, while animation has become an increasingly powerful pop-cultural form.
isney Learning offers various educational resources such as the Disney Learning Preschool Letters and Sounds Workbook, which focuses on letter and sound recognition suitable for preschoolers and kindergarteners.
Disney's Encanto tells the story of the extraordinary Madrigal family, who live hidden away in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house and a vibrant town called Encanto.
Collaborating with Disney Learning blends our educational expertise with beloved characters to develop learning content that reinforces early numeracy and literacy skills during early learning.
