Title Frame by frame : a materialist aesthetics of animated cartoons / Hannah Frank ; edited and with an introduction by Daniel Morgan ; foreword by Tom Gunning

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource 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 Summary "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 then photographed in succession, a labor-intensive process that was divided across scores of artists and technicians. In order to understand the art, labor, and technology of cel animation, this book analyzes cartoons frame by frame to expose hitherto unseen qualities of the image. What emerges is both a method and an original account of an art formed on the assembly line"--Provided by publisher Analysis 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Editor's introduction / by Daniel Morgan -- Introduction: looking at labor -- Animation and montage, or, Photographic records of documents -- A view of the world : toward a photographic theory of cel animation -- Pars pro toto : character animation and the work of the anonymous artist -- The multiplication of traces : xerographic reproduction and One hundred and one Dalmatians -- Conclusion: the labor of looking English Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Animated films -- History and criticism. Motion pictures -- Aesthetics. Films, cinema. Media studies. PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Animated. Animated films Motion pictures -- Aesthetics Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Morgan, Daniel, 1977- editor, writer of introduction. Gunning, Tom, 1949- writer of foreword. LC no. 2018048471 ISBN 9780520972773 0520972775 0520303628 9780520303621

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