Frame by frame : a materialist aesthetics of animated cartoons /

"This book examines the visual aesthetics of popular American animated cartoons. For most 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 the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Frank, Hannah, 1984-2017 (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Morgan, Daniel, 1977- (Editor), Gunning, Tom, 1949- (writer of foreword.)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Animated films > History and criticism. Motion pictures > Aesthetics. Cinéma > Esthétique. Films, cinema. Media studies. PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Animated. Animated films. art formed on assembly line. cel animation. character animation. cinema and media studies. drawings inked and painted. golden age of animation. individual transparent celluloid sheets. making of cartoons. mechanized and standardized. original. photographic theory of cel animation. predigital age of 20th century. researched. study of american animated cartoons. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword : Hannah Frank's Pause / Gunning, Tom
Editor's Introduction / Morgan, Daniel
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Looking at Labor
1. Animation and Montage; or, Photographic Records of Documents
2. A View of the World: Toward a Photographic Theory of Cel Animation
3. Pars Pro Toto: Character Animation and the Work of the Anonymous Artist
4. The Multiplication of Traces: Xerographic Reproduction and One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Conclusion: The Labor of Looking
Notes
Bibliography
Index