Cartoon Superstars

Author : Martin Gitlin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1630762792
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Celebration of Animation written by Martin Gitlin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Celebration of Animation explores the best-of-the-best cartoon characters from the 1920s to the 21st century. All the greats gracing this book are sure to trigger memories of carefree Saturday mornings or after-school hours in front of the TV.

Author : John Cawley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cartoon Superstars written by John Cawley and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Hart
Publisher : Christopher Hart's Cartooning
ISBN 13 : 0823005879
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cartoon Cool written by Christopher Hart and published by Christopher Hart's Cartooning. This book was released on 2005 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's leading cartoon artists shows readers how to capture the retro look of Sponge Bob, Dexter, and other popular comics, revealing how to recapture the 1950s in cartoons.

Author : Damien Toll
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1477754776
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drawing Awesome Cartoon Characters written by Damien Toll and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartoons are fun to look at, but they take a lot of work to create. Aspiring artists learn how to draw memorable details that make cartoon characters come alive on the page. Different techniques are introduced, such as creating a sense of motion and emphasizing different features to give characters distinct personalities. Readers are presented with a variety of cartoons to try their hand at drawing—from a sporty grandma to a creepy villain. Each cartoon is shown through step-by-step instructions of the whole drawing process, as well as full-color illustrations of the finished product.

Author : Nichola Dobson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810858304
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Animation and Cartoons written by Nichola Dobson and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animation was once a relatively simple matter, using fairly primitive means to produce rather short films of subjects that were generally comedic and often quite childish. However, things have changed, and they continue changing at a maddening pace. One new technique after another has made it easier, faster, and above all cheaper to produce the material, which has taken on an increasing variety of forms. The Historical Dictionary of Animation and Cartoons is an introduction to all aspects of animation history and its development as a technology and industry beyond the familiar cartoons from the Disney and Warner Bros. Studios. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, photos, a bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on animators, directors, studios, techniques, films, and some of the best-known characters.

Author : David McGowan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477317430
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animated Personalities written by David McGowan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Felix the Cat, and other beloved cartoon characters have entertained media audiences for almost a century, outliving the human stars who were once their contemporaries in studio-era Hollywood. In Animated Personalities, David McGowan asserts that iconic American theatrical short cartoon characters should be legitimately regarded as stars, equal to their live-action counterparts, not only because they have enjoyed long careers, but also because their star personas have been created and marketed in ways also used for cinematic celebrities. Drawing on detailed archival research, McGowan analyzes how Hollywood studios constructed and manipulated the star personas of the animated characters they owned. He shows how cartoon actors frequently kept pace with their human counterparts, granting “interviews,” allowing “candid” photographs, endorsing products, and generally behaving as actual actors did—for example, Donald Duck served his country during World War II, and Mickey Mouse was even embroiled in scandal. Challenging the notion that studios needed actors with physical bodies and real off-screen lives to create stars, McGowan demonstrates that media texts have successfully articulated an off-screen existence for animated characters. Following cartoon stars from silent movies to contemporary film and television, this groundbreaking book broadens the scope of star studies to include animation, concluding with provocative questions about the nature of stardom in an age of digitally enhanced filmmaking technologies.

Author : Maureen Furniss
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0861969049
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animation written by Maureen Furniss and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animation—Art and Industry is an introductory reader covering a broad range of animation studies topics, focusing on both American and international contexts. It provides information about key individuals in the fields of both independent and experimental animation, and introduces a variety of topics relevant to the critical study of media—censorship, representations of gender and race, and the relationship between popular culture and fine art. Essays span the silent era to the present, include new media such as web animation and gaming, and address animation made using a variety of techniques.

Author : Paul Wells
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136158731
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Animation written by Paul Wells and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Understanding Animation is a comprehensive introduction to animated film, from cartoons to computer animation. Paul Wells' insightful account of a critically neglected but increasingly popular medium: * explains the defining characteristics of animation as a cinematic form * outlines different models and methods which can be used to interpret and evaluate animated films * traces the development of animated film around the world, from Betty Boop to Wallace and Gromit. Part history, part theory, and part celebration, Understanding Animation includes: * notes towards a theory of animation * an explanation of animation's narrative strategies * an analyis of how comic events are constructed * a discussion of representation, focusing on gender and race * primary research on animation and audiences. Paul Wells' argument is illustrated with case studies, including Daffy Duck in Chuck Jones' Duck Amuck, Jan Svankmajer's Jabberwocky, Tex Avery's Little Rural Riding Hood and King Size Canary ', and Nick Park's Creature Comforts. Understanding Animation demonstrates that the animated film has much to tell us about ourselves, the cultures we live in, and our view of art and society.

Author : Brian N. Duchaney
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476648700
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animated Mischief written by Brian N. Duchaney and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last century, the medium of animation has served as an expression of childhood as well as a method of subverting the expectations of what society has promised for the future. Separated into three parts, this work assembles various explorations of taste, culture and passion through animation. Section I features essays that outline the historical changes in art and society that gave rise to an outsider culture that found a home in animation. In the second section, essays examine the practical use of animation as a voice for the underserved. Finally, in Section III, essays analyze the ways in which animation has reshaped the acceptance of outsider status to embrace otherness. Featuring everything from feature-length films to self-produced YouTube videos, the essays in this text reflect a shared love of animation and its unique ability to comment on society and culture.

Author : Paul Wells
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813531601
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animation and America written by Paul Wells and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the distinctiveness of the cartoon form, as well as myriad other types of animation production, and examines animation's importance as a barometer of the social conditions in which it is made and which it reflects. [back cover].