Animated films and animation

The Animation Studies Reader brings together both key writings within animation studies and new material in emerging areas of the field.

Lavishly illustrated with breathtaking art and imagery from the highly anticipated new movie, the exclusive Visual Companion is the ultimate introduction to every character, creature and location you will encounter in this epic adventure from the official Lord of the Rings saga.

In 2010, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic premiered on television.

Over the last century, the medium of animation has served as an expression of childhood as well as a method of subverting the expectations of what society has promised for the future.

Stop-motion Animation explores how all the elements of film-making camera work, design, colour, lighting, editing, music and storytelling - come together in this unique art form.

Stop-motion Animation explores how all the elements of film-making camera work, design, colour, lighting, editing, music and storytelling - come together in this unique art form.

Gaming Film explores the growing influence of computer games on contemporary cinema.

Motion Illustration is a broad introduction to the emerging world of moving illustrations, written specifically for those coming from an illustration background.

With careers spanning eight decades, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were two of the most prolific animation producers in American history.

Studio Ghibli: An Industrial History takes us deep into the production world of the animation studio co-founded by Oscar-winning director Hayao Miyazaki.

Elaborate cinematic universes and sophisticated marketing tie-ins are commonplace in entertainment today.

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.

Animated Performance shows how a character can seemingly 'come to life' when their movements reflect the emotional or narrative context of their situation: when they start to 'perform'.

This book charts the complex history of the relationship between the Disney fairy tale and the American Dream, demonstrating the ways in which the Disney fairy tale has been reconstructed and renegotiated alongside, and in response to important changes within American society.

Stop-motion puppet animation is one of the most unusual and demanding art forms in the world.

Over the last century, the medium of animation has served as an expression of childhood as well as a method of subverting the expectations of what society has promised for the future.

First aired in 1989, The Simpsons has become America's most beloved animated show.

Disney - This name stands not only for a company that has had global reach from its early days, but also for a successful aesthetic programme and ideological positions that have had great commercial success but at the same time have been frequently criticised.

Since the early 20th century, animated Christmas cartoons have brightened the holiday season around the world--first in theaters, then on television.

Animation in Context is an illustrated introduction to cultural theory, contextual research and critical analysis.

Seth MacFarlane has made an immense mark on popular culture through both his live action and animated television series: Family Guy, American Dad!

This book puts forward a more considered perspective on 3D, which is often seen as a distracting gimmick at odds with artful cinematic storytelling.

"e;Boys' love,"e; a male-male homoerotic genre written primarily by women for women, enjoys global popularity and is one of the most rapidly growing publishing niches in the United States.

In Cartoon Vision Dan Bashara examines American animation alongside the modern design boom of the postwar era.

Have you ever wanted to try your hand at cartoony computer animation?

Beloved by young girls around the world, Hasbro's My Little Pony franchise has been mired in controversy since its debut in the early 1980s.

This work demonstrates that not everything that Disney touched turned to gold.

Many Disney films adapt works from the Victorian period, which is often called the Golden Age of children's literature.

This book reveals and explores the thriving animation culture in midtown Manhattan, the World's Fair, art galleries and cinemas during a vibrant period of artistic, commercial and industrial activity in New York City.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

French Animation History is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of animation, illuminating the exceptional place France holds within that history.

Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-08) and its sequel The Legend of Korra (2012-14) are among the most acclaimed and influential U.

Politically Animated studies the convergence of animation and actuality within films, television series, and digital shorts from across the Spanish-speaking world.

Der Band greift einen vorherrschenden wissenschaftlichen Trend zur Prozessualisierung, Relationierung und Situierung von gegenwärtigen Medien bzw.

This edited volume encompasses chapters on novel and innovative research in the applications of leading digital technologies in an accessible and engaging way.

Based on a world-class curriculum and cutting-edge industry practices, Stop Motion Filmmaking offers step-by-step instruction in everything from puppet making and studio set-up to animation and filmmaking.

Animation in Context is an illustrated introduction to cultural theory, contextual research and critical analysis.

Once a favorite of mainly art house audiences, Hayao Miyazaki's films have enjoyed increasing exposure in the West since his Spirited Away won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2003.

In 2010, Cartoon Network debuted a new animated series called Adventure Time, and within just a few short years the show became both a pop culture phenomenon and a critical darling.

British Television Animation 1997-2010 charts a moment in TV history where UK comic animation graduated from the margins as part of a post-Simpsons broadcast landscape.

Japanese animation is at the nexus of an international multimedia industry worth over $23.

Hanna and Barbera: Conversations presents a lively portrait of Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, the influential producers behind Tom and Jerry, the Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, the Smurfs, and hundreds of other cartoon characters who continue to entertain the world today.

This book discusses developments and continuities in experimental animation that, since Robert Russet and Cecile Starr's Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art (1976), has proliferated in the context of expanded cinema, performance and live 'making' and is today exhibited in galleries, public sites and online.

This book examines the popular and critically acclaimedfilms of Pixar Animation Studios in their cultural and historical context.

The history of animated cartoons has for decades been dominated by the accomplishments of Walt Disney, giving the impression that he invented the medium.

Do you know your Mike from your Mater?

In The Poetics of Slumberland, Scott Bukatman celebrates play, plasmatic possibility, and the life of images in cartoons, comics, and cinema.

Stop-motion animation has long been perceived as a technical practice rather than a creative, demanding art.