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Animating Film Theory
Karen Beckman
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Description for Animating Film Theory
Paperback. 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. This title offers a collection of reanimates and expands film studies by taking the concept of animation seriously. Editor(s): Beckman, Karen. Num Pages: 376 pages, 49 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822356523
SKU
V9780822356523
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99-1
About Karen Beckman
Karen Redrobe (formerly Beckman) is the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Cinema and Modern Media in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis and Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism and coeditor (with Jean Ma) of Still Moving: Between Cinema ... Read more
Reviews for Animating Film Theory
"This fecund, vivacious collection will be a vital resource for those interested in film animation."
T. Lindvall
Choice
“Animating Film Theory encompasses a wide concern for moving images and underexplored theoretical and aesthetic issues that thinking through and about animation opens up for readers.”
Amanda Egbe
Leonardo Reviews
T. Lindvall
Choice
“Animating Film Theory encompasses a wide concern for moving images and underexplored theoretical and aesthetic issues that thinking through and about animation opens up for readers.”
Amanda Egbe
Leonardo Reviews