Frame by Frame (eBook)

A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons

Hannah Frank (Autor)

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2019
256 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97277-3 (ISBN)

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In this beautifully written and deeply researched study, Hannah Frank provides an original way to understand American animated cartoons from the Golden Age of animation (1920–1960). In the pre-digital age 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 see the art, labor, and technology of cel animation, Frank slows cartoons down to look frame by frame, finding hitherto unseen aspects of the animated image. What emerges is both a methodology and a highly original account of an art formed on the assembly line.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Foreword: Hannah Frank’s Pause by Tom Gunning
Editor’s Introduction by Daniel Morgan

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Looking at Labor
1. Animation and Montage; or, Photographic Records of Documents
2. A View of the World: Toward a Photographic Theory of Cel Animation
3. Pars Pro Toto: Character Animation and the Work of the
Anonymous Artist
4. The Multiplication of Traces: Xerographic Reproduction and
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Conclusion: The Labor of Looking

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.5.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Schlagworte: art formed on assembly line • cel animation • Character animation • cinema and media studies • drawings inked and painted • golden age of animation • individual transparent celluloid sheets • making of cartoons • mechanized and standardized • Original • photographic theory of cel animation • predigital age of 20th century • researched • study of american animated cartoons
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97277-5 / 0520972775
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97277-3 / 9780520972773