Grendel Grendel Grendel

Animating Beowulf

Dr Dan Torre, Dr. Lienors Torre (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-3782-6 (ISBN)

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This open access study of the film Grendel Grendel Grendel, directed by Alexander Stitt, presents it as a masterpiece of animation and design which has attained a national and international cult status since its release in 1981. The film, based on the novel, Grendel, by John Gardner, is a loose adaptation of the Beowulf legend, but told from the point of view of the monster, Grendel. Grendel Grendel Grendel is a mature, intelligent, irreverent and quite unique animated film - it is a movie, both in terms of content and of an aesthetic that was well ahead of its time. Along with a brief overview of Australian animation and a contextualization of where this animated feature fits within the broader continuum of Australian (and global) film history, Dan Torre and Lienors Torre provide an intriguing analysis of this significant Australian animated feature.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Dan Torre is a senior lecturer in the School of Design at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of a number of books, including: Animation - Process, Cognition and Actuality (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), Cactus (2017), Carnivorous Plants (2019) and co-author of Australian Animation - An International History (2018). Lienors Torre is a senior lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. She writes on animation and related areas and is co-author of the book, Australian Animation - An International History (2018). She is also a practicing animator and artist.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introducing Grendel
Chapter One: The Genealogy of Grendel
Chapter Two: Scenes of Grendel Grendel Grendel
Chapter Three: Themes of Grendel Grendel Grendel
Chapter Four: Making of Grendel Grendel Grendel
Chapter Five: Aesthetics of Grendel Grendel Grendel
Chapter Six: Grendel’ll Get You
Concluding Grendel

A Guide to Further Research
Bibliography
Filmography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.08.2021
Reihe/Serie	Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers
Zusatzinfo	65 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	463 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-3782-3 / 1501337823
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-3782-6 / 9781501337826
Zustand	Neuware