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Shadow of a Mouse: Performance, Belief, and World-Making in Animation
Donald Crafton
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Paperback. Animation variously entertains, enchants, and offends, yet there have been no convincing explanations of how these films do so. This book proposes performance as the common touchstone for understanding the principles underlying the construction, execution, and reception of cartoons. Num Pages: 411 pages, 21 color images, 72 black & white images. BIC Classification: APFV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 658. Performance, Belief, and World-Making in Animation. 411 pages, illustrations. Proposes performance as the common touchstone for understanding the principles underlying the construction, execution, and reception of cartoons. This title presents methods that draw on film and theater studies, art history, aesthetics, cultural studies, and performance studies to outline a personal view of animated cinema. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: APFV. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 26. Weight: 658.
Animation variously entertains, enchants, and offends, yet there have been no convincing explanations of how these films do so. Shadow of a Mouse proposes performance as the common touchstone for understanding the principles underlying the construction, execution, and reception of cartoons. Donald Crafton's interdisciplinary methods draw on film and theater studies, art history, aesthetics, cultural studies, and performance studies to outline a personal view of animated cinema that illuminates its systems of belief and world making. He wryly asks: Are animated characters actors and stars, just like humans? Why do their performances seem live and present, despite our knowing that ... Read more
Animation variously entertains, enchants, and offends, yet there have been no convincing explanations of how these films do so. Shadow of a Mouse proposes performance as the common touchstone for understanding the principles underlying the construction, execution, and reception of cartoons. Donald Crafton's interdisciplinary methods draw on film and theater studies, art history, aesthetics, cultural studies, and performance studies to outline a personal view of animated cinema that illuminates its systems of belief and world making. He wryly asks: Are animated characters actors and stars, just like humans? Why do their performances seem live and present, despite our knowing that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
411
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
657g
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520261044
SKU
V9780520261044
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About Donald Crafton
Donald Crafton is The Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Talkies and Before Mickey.
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