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The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture

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Description for The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture Paperback. Evaluates the depiction of animals in cartoons and animation more generally. This title argues that artists use animals to engage with issues that would be more difficult to address directly because of political, religious, or social taboos. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AGN; AKLC; APFV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 401.
Cartoonists and animators have given animals human characteristics for so long that audiences are now accustomed to seeing Bugs Bunny singing opera and Mickey Mouse walking his dog Pluto.

The Animated Bestiary critically evaluates the depiction of animals in cartoons and animation more generally. Paul Wells argues that artists use animals to engage with issues that would be more difficult to address directly because of political, religious, or social taboos. Consequently, and principally through anthropomorphism, animation uses animals to play out a performance of gender, sex and sexuality, racial and national traits, and shifting identity, often challenging how we ... Read more

Wells draws on a wide range of examples, from the original King Kongto Nick Park's Chicken Run to Disney cartoonsùsuch as Tarzan, The Jungle Book, and Brother Bearùto reflect on people by looking at the ways in which they respond to animals in cartoons and films.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813544151
SKU
V9780813544151
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Paul Wells
Paul Wells is the director of animation in the Animation Academy at Loughborough University. He is the author of several books, including Animation and America(Rutgers University Press), Understanding Animation, and Fundamentals of Animation.

Reviews for The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture
Wells has proven himself to be a leading scholar of animation and has here produced a solid piece of scholarship that shows an incredible breadth of knowledge.
Eric Smoodin
author of Regarding Frank Capra: Audience, Celebrity,and American Film Studies,
Wells has proven himself to be a leading scholar of animation and has here produced a solid piece ... Read more

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