Animated landscapes
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"The first comprehensive study of animated landscapes across media."-- Provided by publisher.
Title |
Animated landscapes : history, form, and function / edited by Chris Pallant. |
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Publisher |
New York : Bloomsbury Academic |
Creation Date |
2015 |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record. Also issued in print. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
Content |
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I - History: Formal Traditions -- 1. Seeing in Dreams - The Shifting Landscapes of Drawn Animation -- Bryan Hawkins, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK -- 2. The Stop Motion Landscape -- Chris Pallant, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK -- 3. Pixar, 'The Road to Point Reyes', and the long history of landscapes in new visual technologies -- Malcolm Cook, Birkbeck, University of London, UK -- II - History: National Perspectives -- 4. Australian Animation - Landscape, Isolation and Connections -- Steven Allen, Winchester University, UK -- 5. Environmentalism and The Animated Landscape in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) and Princess Mononoke (1997) -- Melanie Chan, York St John University, UK -- 6. Animating Shanshui: Chinese Landscapes in Animated Film, Art and Performance -- Kiu-wai Chu, The University of Hong Kong -- 7. Latvian Animation: Landscapes of Resistance -- Mihaela Mihailova, Yale University, USA -- III - Form: Journeys Through Animated Space -- 8. The Landscape in the Memory: Animated Travel Diaries -- María Lorenzo Hernández, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia -- 9. Off the Rails: Animating Train Journeys -- Birgitta Hosea, University of the Arts, London, UK -- 10. Between Setting and Character: A Taxonomy of Sentient Spaces in Fantasy Film -- Fran Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton, UK -- IV - Form: Peripheral Perspectives -- 11. The Metamorphosis of Place: Projection-Mapped Animation -- Dan Torre, RMIT, Australia -- 12. Plasmatic Pitches, Temporal Tracks and Conceptual Courts: The Landscapes of Animated Sport -- Paul Wells, Loughborough University, UK -- 13. The Zombiefied Landscape: World War Z (2013), ParaNorman (2012), and the Politics of the Animated Corpse -- James Newton, University of Kent, UK -- V - Function: Interactivity -- 14. Evoking the Oracle: Visual Logic of Screen Worlds -- Tom Klein, Loyola Marymount University, USA -- 15. Beyond the Animated Landscape: Videogame Glitches and the Sublime -- Alan Meades, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK -- List of Contributors -- Bibliography -- Animation -- Filmography -- Other Media -- Index |
Extent |
1 online resource (337 p.) |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
997010718381005171 |
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