Frame by frame a materialist aesthetics of animated cartoons

"This book examines the visual aesthetics of popular American animated cartoons. For most of the twentieth century, the making of cartoons was mechanized and standardized: thousands of drawings were inked and painted onto individual transparent celluloid sheets (called 'cels') and the...

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Main Author: Frank, Hannah
Other Authors: Morgan, Daniel (Editor), Gunning, Tom ([writer of foreword])
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press 2019, [2019]©2019
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Summary:"This book examines the visual aesthetics of popular American animated cartoons. For most of the twentieth century, the making of cartoons was mechanized and standardized: thousands of drawings were inked and painted onto individual transparent celluloid sheets (called 'cels') and then photographed in succession, a labor-intensive process that was divided across scores of artists and technicians. In order to understand the art, labor, and technology of cel animation, this book analyzes cartoons frame by frame to expose hitherto unseen qualities of the image. What emerges is both a method and an original account of an art formed on the assembly line"--Provided by publisher
Item Description:Editor's introduction / by Daniel Morgan -- Introduction: looking at labor -- Animation and montage, or, Photographic records of documents -- A view of the world : toward a photographic theory of cel animation -- Pars pro toto : character animation and the work of the anonymous artist -- The multiplication of traces : xerographic reproduction and One hundred and one Dalmatians -- Conclusion: the labor of looking
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780520303621
0520972775
0520303628