Bendazzi Animation: A World History

Volume I: Foundations - The Golden Age
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-52083-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 238 Seiten

A continuation of 1994’s groundbreaking Cartoons, Giannalberto Bendazzi’s Animation: A World History is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive text of its kind, based on the idea that animation is an art form that deserves its own place in scholarship. Bendazzi delves beyond just Disney, offering readers glimpses into the animation of Russia, Africa, Latin America, and other often-neglected areas and introducing over fifty previously undiscovered artists. Full of first-hand, never before investigated, and elsewhere unavailable information, Animation: A World History encompasses the history of animation production on every continent over the span of three centuries.

Volume I traces the roots and predecessors of modern animation, the history behind Émile Cohl's Fantasmagorie, and twenty years of silent animated films. Encompassing the formative years of the art form through its Golden Age, this book accounts for animation history through 1950 and covers everything from well-known classics like Steamboat Willie to animation in Egypt and Nazi Germany. With a wealth of new research, hundreds of photographs and film stills, and an easy-to-navigate organization, this book is essential reading for all serious students of animation history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bendazzi, Giannalberto

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Animationsfilme, Zeichentrickfilme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- FOUNDATIONS

What it is

Mapping chaos

Turning points

Periods

Guilty, but with an explanation

Traces

You won’t find…

A hybrid

- BEFORE FANTASMAGORIE

Archaeology

Phidias’s animating chisel

Representation

The motion analysis

Music

The meaning of the implicit movement

An object of philosophy

Pre-history 1

Science, science, science

Writing with light

Pre-history 2

A static mirror?

The flipbook

Émile Reynaud

Birth of the théâtre optique

The théâtre optique and how it worked

On with the lantern show

Colour Music

Frame-by-frame

Arthur Melbourne-Cooper

Walter Robert Booth

Edwin S. Porter

James Stuart Blackton

- THE SILENT PIONEERS

The Cradle

Days of heaven and hell

Culture

Cinema

Narrative, non-narrative

Fantasmagorie

The Fathers

Émile Cohl

Georges Méliès

The first abstract cinema

Arnaldo Ginna

Léopold Survage

Winsor McCay

Colour

- SILENT AMERICA 1

The Fathers’ Sons

Comics, animation, cinema

Birth of the industry

Raoul Barré

Cut-Insert-Replace

John Randolph Bray

The IFS

Other American artists

Willis O’Brien

Instruments and language

- SILENT AMERICA 2

The Fleischer Brothers

Felix, Pat and Otto Messmer

Terry and the Fables

Bowers unbound

Lantz’s debut

Bray, Hurd, Mintz

Sarg and Dawley

The young Walt Disney

- SILENT EUROPE

The individualists

Great Britain

Ireland

France

Lortac

Advertisers and illustrators

Germany: Animation in the Weimar Republic

The matrix

Walther Ruttmann

Viking Eggeling

Hans Richter

Lotte Reiniger

Austria

Switzerland

Denmark

Storm P.

Sweden

Grogg the sailor man

Other Swedish animators

Norway

Finland

Spain

Portugal

Hungary

The rest of Europe

Russia/Soviet Union

Ladislas Starewich

After the revolution

Ukraine

- SILENT ASIA

Japan

The narrator

- SILENT LATIN AMERICA

Mexico

Colombia

Brazil

Chile

Argentina: the world’s first animated feature film

Quirino Cristiani

- SILENT AFRICA

Union of South Africa

- SILENT OCEANIA

Australia

- THE GOLDEN AGE

Steamboat Willie

Sync or sink

The non-concurrence factor

Sound

- AMERICA LAUGHS!

Walt Disney the tycoon

The fixed star

Human or animal?

Years of expansion

The ones who made the magic

Another Disney folly

The pillar brother

At Disney's animation declines

The Twelve Rules of the Nine Men

Animation heads west

The masters’ master

Lantz, from the Rabbit to the Woodpecker

Ub Iwerks

Mintz, Krazy and Columbia

Van Beuren

Terrytoons and Mighty Mouse

The Fleischers: Betty Boop, Popeye and two feature films

Warner Brothers

Tex Avery

Bob Clampett

Carl W. Stalling, musical animator

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: Cat, Mouse, Tex

Tashlin the wanderer

The American avant-garde

Animation in Canada

- EUROPE

Great Britain

Len Lye

France

Anthony Gross

Berthold Bartosch

Alexandre Alexeïeff

Belgium

The Netherlands

Germany in Nazi time

Hans Fischerkoesen

The Brothers Diehl

Heinz Tischmeyer

Hans Held

Wolfgang Kaskeline

Avant-garde

Oskar Fischinger

Austria

Switzerland

Denmark

Norway

Sweden

Czechoslovakia

Poland

Stefan and Franciszka Themerson

Hungary

George Pal

Yugoslavia

Italy

Greece

Spain

Catalan vibrancy

The Edad Dorada

Barcelona’s entrepreneurs

Barcelonese feature-length films

Madrid

Valencia

Portugal

- SOVIET UNION

Russia

Ukraine

Lithuania

Azerbaijan

Armenia

Georgia

- ASIA

Japan

Ofuji Noburo

Masaoka Kenzo

Kimura Hakuzan

A Brave New World

The changed frame around

Mochinaga Tadahito and his legacy

Ichikawa Kon

China

- LATIN AMERICA

Mexico

Colombia

Venezuela

Brazil

Argentina

- AFRICA

Egypt

Union of South Africa

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Über Autor(innen)

A former professor at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore and the Università degli Studi of Milan, Italian-born Giannalberto Bendazzi has been thoroughly investigating the history of animation for more than forty years. A founding member of the Society for Animation Studies, he authored or edited various classics in various languages, and has lectured extensively on every continent.