Animation: The golden age, the birth of a style, and contemporary times…
As adults and children alike become transfixed with animation, and fall in love with the animated film once more due to recent successes in the genre this year, Giannalberto Bendazzi’s new work, Animation: A World History, a three-volume set, is a timely production based on the idea that animation is an art form that deserves its own place in scholarship, as companies like Pixar and Paramount Animation herald a possible new golden age for the field.
The set is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive text of its kind. However, Bendazzi delves beyond just Disney, offering reader’s glimpses into the animation of Russia, Africa, Latin America, and other often-neglected areas - introducing over fifty previously undiscovered artists. Animation: A World History encompasses the history of animation production on every continent over the span of three centuries, and includes:
- Over 200 high quality head shots and film stills to add visual reference to your research.
- Detailed information on hundreds of never-before researched animators and films.
- Coverage of animation from more than 90 countries and every major region of the world.
- Chronological and geographical organization for quick access to information.
Volume I traces the roots and predecessors of modern animation, encompassing the formative years of the art form through its Golden Age, this volume accounts for animation history through 1950 and covers everything from well-known classics to animation in Egypt and Nazi Germany.
Volume II delves into the decades following the Golden Age, an uncertain time when television series were overshadowing feature films, art was heavily influenced by the Cold War, and new technologies began to emerge that threatened the traditional methods of animation. Last but not least, Volume III catches you up to speed on the state of animation from 1991 to the present.
With an abundance of first-hand research and topics ranging from Nickelodeon and Pixar to modern Estonian animation, Animation: A World History is the most complete record of modern animation on the market, full of never before investigated, and elsewhere unavailable information.
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