[Comicsstudiessociety] Open access books on comics and cartoons #1 - animation

Mon Oct 17 21:20:15 EDT 2022

 I don't believe any of these have been reviewed by IJOCA and we'd be glad
to hear from interested reviewers.
Mike Rhode
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Frame by Frame

A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons
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Author(s)
Frank, Hannah
LanguageEnglish
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For most of the twentieth century, the making of animated cartoons was
mechanized and standardized to allow for high-volume production: 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, most of them anonymous. In order to understand how the
industrial mode of production influenced the medium’s visual style, this
book regards each frame of a given animated cartoon as a historical
document in its own right. This new consideration of the materiality of the
medium analyzes cartoons frame by frame to expose hitherto unseen qualities
of the image. The book covers the different technologies of reproduction
involved in this process, from photography to xerography, as well as the
idiosyncrasies of the image—from abstract imagery to mistakes in
reproduction—that can be seen only when the film is halted. What emerges is
both a new methodology for thinking about animation, the idea of
frame-by-frame analysis, and a highly original account of an art formed on
the assembly line.
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KeywordsAesthetics; animation; avant-garde; cartoons; labor; photography;
technology
DOI10.1525/luminos.65
ISBN9780520303621
OCN1135845386
Publisher University of California Press
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Publication date and placeOakland, 2019
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Animating Film Theory

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Contributor(s)
Beckman, Karen Redrobe (editor)
CollectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
Number6979
LanguageEnglish
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Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the
relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing
concepts in cinema and media studies: animation and film theory. For the
most part, animation has been excluded from the purview of film theory. The
contributors to this collection consider the reasons for this
marginalization while also bringing attention to key historical
contributions across a wide range of animation practices, geographic and
linguistic terrains, and historical periods. They delve deep into questions
of how animation might best be understood, as well as how it relates to
concepts such as the still, the moving image, the frame, animism, and
utopia. The contributors take on the kinds of theoretical questions that
have remained underexplored because, as Karen Beckman argues, scholars of
cinema and media studies have allowed themselves to be constrained by too
narrow a sense of what cinema is. This collection reanimates and expands
film studies by taking the concept of animation seriously. Contributors.
Karen Beckman, Suzanne Buchan, Scott Bukatman, Alan Cholodenko, Yuriko
Furuhata, Alexander R. Galloway, Oliver Gaycken, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Tom
Gunning, Andrew R. Johnston, Hervé Joubert-Laurencin, Gertrud Koch, Thomas
LaMarre, Christopher P. Lehman, Esther Leslie, John MacKay, Mihaela
Mihailova, Marc Steinberg, Tess Takahashi
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KeywordsPerforming Arts; Animation; Performing Arts; Film; History &
Criticism
Publisher Duke University Press
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Publication date and place2014

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Genndy Tartakovsky: Sincerity in Animation
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Author(s)
Tembo, Kwasu David
LanguageEnglish
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Genndy Tartakovsky is widely regarded as a pioneer in contemporary Western
animation of the 20th and 21st centuries. His groundbreaking and prolific
output, ranging from Dexter's Laboratory to Samurai Jack and Sym-Bionic
Titan, has become a mainstay of contemporary animated programming, and
collectively, the cornerstone of both titans of the industry such as
Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. This open access book draws attention to
the comparatively mysterious figure of this creator, while simultaneously
celebrating his singular vision, mastery of formal technique, genre
sensitivity, personal stylistic flair, and how these aesthetic and
narrative elements combine to produce what the author calls an 'animation
of sincerity' in all his works. The ebook editions of this book are
available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on
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KeywordsGenndy Tartakovsky; cartoons; Western animation; Dexter’s
Laboratory; Samurai Jack; Sym-Bionic Titan; Cartoon Network; Adult Swim;
animation of sincerity; Star Wars; technique; genre; humor; humour; 20th
century; 21st century
DOI10.5040/9781501356261
ISBN9781501356278, 9781501356285, 9781501356278
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
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Publication date and placeNew York, 2022
ImprintBloomsbury Academic
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

New Perspectives on Production, Reception, Legacy
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Contributor(s)
Pallant, Chris (editor)
Holliday, Christopher (editor)
LanguageEnglish
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937) occupies a central place
within the history of global animation. Based on the German fairy tale by
the Brothers Grimm, the film was the first feature-length animated film
produced by the Disney Studio and served to announce the animated cartoon
as an industrial art form. Yet Disney’s landmark version not only set in
motion the Golden Age of the Hollywood cartoon, but has continued to stand
as an international sensation, prompting multiple revisions and remakes
within a variety of national filmmaking contexts. This book explores the
enduring qualities that have marked Snow White’s influence and legacy,
providing a collection of original chapters that reflect upon its
pioneering use of technology and contributions to animation’s visual style,
the film’s reception within an American context, and its status as a global
cultural phenomenon.
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KeywordsWalt Disney; global animation; Brothers Grimm; first feature-length
animated film; Golden Age of Hollywood; cartoon; international sensation;
influence; legacy; technology; visual style; film reception; cultural
phenomenon
DOI10.5040/9781501351198
ISBN9781501351204, 9781501351211, 9781501351204
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
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Publication date and placeNew York, 2021

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Global Animation Theory

International Perspectives at Animafest Zagreb
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Contributor(s)
Bruckner, Franziska (editor)
Gilić, Nikica (editor)
Lang, Holger (editor)
Šuljić, Daniel (editor)
Turković, Hrvoje (editor)
CollectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
Number102502
LanguageEnglish
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Global Animation Theory offers detailed and diverse insights into the
methodologies of contemporary animation studies, as well as the topics
relevant for today’s study of animation. The contact between practical and
theoretical approaches to animation at Animafest Scanner, is closely
connected to host of this event, the World Festival of Animated Film
Animafest Zagreb. It has given way to academic writing that is very open to
practical aspects of animation, with several contributors being established
not only as animation scholars, but also as artists. This anthology
presents, alongside an introduction by the editors and a preface by well
known animation scholar Giannalberto Bendazzi, 15 selected essays from the
first three Animafest Scanner editions. They explore various significant
aspects of animation studies, some of them still unknown to the English
speaking communities.
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KeywordsMedia & Communications
DOI10.5040/9781501337161
ISBN9781501337154;9781501337147
OCN1126193765
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
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Publication date and placeNew York, 2018-11-01

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Comics and Videogames

>From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions
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Contributor(s)
Rauscher, Andreas (editor)
Stein, Daniel (editor)
Thon, Jan-Noël (editor)
LanguageEnglish
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"This book offers the first comprehensive study of the many interfaces
shaping the relationship between comics and videogames. It combines
in-depth conceptual reflection with a rich selection of paradigmatic case
studies from contemporary media culture. The editors have gathered a
distinguished group of international scholars working at the interstices of
comics studies and game studies to explore two interrelated areas of
inquiry: The first part of the book focuses on hybrid medialities and
experimental aesthetics ""between"" comics and videogames; the second part
zooms in on how comics and videogames function as transmedia expansions
within an increasingly convergent and participatory media culture. The
individual chapters address synergies and intersections between comics and
videogames via a diverse set of case studies ranging from independent and
experimental projects via popular franchises from the corporate worlds of
DC and Marvel to the more playful forms of media mix prominent in Japan.
Offering an innovative intervention into a number of salient issues in
current media culture, Comics and Videogames will be of interest to
scholars and students of comics studies, game studies, popular culture
studies, transmedia studies, and visual culture studies."
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KeywordsMedia studies; American / British style comic books and graphic
novels; Computer games / online games: strategy guides
DOI10.4324/9781003035466
ISBN9780367539016; 9780367474195; 9780367474195; 9780367539016;
9781003035466
Publisher Taylor & Francis
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Publication date and place2021
ImprintRoutledge
SeriesRoutledge Advances in Game Studies,
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