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Understanding Animation
Paul Wells
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Description for Understanding Animation
Hardcover. This work offers a number of reasons why animation had been consigned to the margins of film history and criticism. It suggests a number of models and methodologies by which animation may be understood and provides a defence of the animated film as a significant art-form. Num Pages: 280 pages, 20 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; APFV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
First Published in 1998. Understanding Animation is a comprehensive introduction to animated film, from cartoons to computer animation. Paul Wells' insightful account of a critically neglected but increasingly popular medium:
* explains the defining characteristics of animation as a cinematic form
* outlines different models and methods which can be used to interpret and evaluate animated films
* traces the development of animated film around the world, from Betty Boop to Wallace and Gromit.
Part history, part theory, and part celebration, Understanding Animation includes:
* notes towards a theory of animation
* an explanation of animation's narrative strategies
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415115964
SKU
V9780415115964
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Ref
99-1
About Paul Wells
Paul Wells is Subject Leader in Media Studies at De Montfort University in Leicester.
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