Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons
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AlbakiReads Editorial Looking at Golden Age Cartoons One Cel at a Time
Looking at Golden Age Cartoons One Cel at a Time
Hannah Frank examines American cel animation from 1920 to 1960 through the physical process behind the moving image. Centering the individual drawings photographed in sequence, the book brings the inked and painted celluloid cel into view as both an artistic surface and a record of industrial production. It traces how mechanization, standardization, and the division of work among artists and technicians shaped cartoons made during the pre-digital era. Frame-by-frame analysis becomes the book’s organizing method for connecting animation’s visual details with the labor and technology that produced them.
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- Students and scholars of animation, film, and visual culture
- Readers interested in the material history of pre-digital media
- Those exploring labor and industrial production in the arts
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Cel animationGolden Age American cartoonsLabor and technologyMateriality of filmFrame-by-frame analysis
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Book Overview At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access p...
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.
In this beautifully written and deeply researched study, Hannah Frank provides an original way to understand American animated cartoons from the Golden Age of animation (1920-1960). In the pre-digital age of the twentieth century, the making of cartoons was mechanized and standardized: 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. In order to see the art, labor, and technology of cel animation, Frank slows cartoons down to look frame by frame, finding hitherto unseen aspects of the animated image. What emerges is both a methodology and a highly original account of an art formed on the assembly line.
In this beautifully written and deeply researched study, Hannah Frank provides an original way to understand American animated cartoons from the Golden Age of animation (1920-1960). In the pre-digital age of the twentieth century, the making of cartoons was mechanized and standardized: 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. In order to see the art, labor, and technology of cel animation, Frank slows cartoons down to look frame by frame, finding hitherto unseen aspects of the animated image. What emerges is both a methodology and a highly original account of an art formed on the assembly line.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 256 | Language: English | Publisher: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR | ISBN: 0520303628
FormatPaperback
Pages256
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0520303628
EAN9780520303621
PublisherUNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Publication Date2019-05-07
EditionFirst Edition
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.7 Pounds
Length8.9 Inches
Width6.0 Inches
Height0.8 Inches
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