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" Redesigning animation : "
Cinzia Bottini.
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BL
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846542
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| Uniform Title
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UPA
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Bottini, Cinzia
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Redesigning animation : : United Productions of America /\ Cinzia Bottini.
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| Publication Statement
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Boca Raton, FL :: CRC Press,, [2019]
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| Series Statement
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The focus animation series
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xlviii, 265 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0815381786
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: 0815381794
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: 9780815381785
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: 9780815381792
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| Notes
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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Nanyang Technological University, 2016) under the title: UPA : redesigning animation.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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1. UPA within the historical and cultural framework of Cold War America : The 1930s: from the Great Depression to the New Deal -- The American postwar stage -- A changing society, a different life : The patriarchal family ; The debate among intellectuals -- Years of endless experimentation : Literature, poetry, music, and painting ; Graphic design ; Cinema ; Television -- American animation goes modern : Animation during and after World War II ; UPA as a cultural product of its time ; The 1955 MoMA exhibition -- 2. Stephen Bosustow: life, merits, limits, gaps and the UPA production system : Stephen Bosustow: an essential professional biography -- Stephen Bosustow: comments from the press : National press ; International press -- Stephen Bosustow at the UPA Studio : Opinions of his employees ; Stephen Bosustow according to himself: a Mr. Magoo personality ; Stephen Bosustow: merits, limits and gaps -- The UPA production system : The units ; Freedom is granted ; A matter of style -- 3. The birth of a style: modern art, graphic design, advertising and animation in the 1940s and 1950s : Modern art -- Modern graphic design : Functional design ; Functionals design in UPA animated cartoons -- Graphic (animated) modernism : Line drawing ; Animation as a graphic cinematic medium -- Cross-fertilization between animation, modern art and graphic design : Advertising art ; Primitivism and children's art ; Some examples of cross-fertilization -- 4. UPA films as case studies for a simplified visual language in animation in the 1940s and 1950s : Pre-Columbia films -- The Jolly frolics series : An overview ; Four case studies : Gerald McBoing Boing; Rooty Toot Toot, The unicorn in the garden; The tell-tale heart ; Series attempts -- Mr. Magoo theatrical releases : Who is Mr. Magoo? ; Case studies : Trouble indemnity; When Magoo flew ; Mr. Magoo's world -- The Boing Boing show : An overview ; Case study: The invisible moustache of Raoul Dufy -- The UPA formula: from direct influences to concurrent examples of modernism in animation : Direct influences of UPA in the United States -- Modern styles in western animation : Modern animation in the United States: UPA influences at Storyboard, Inc. ; Modern animation in Canada: UPA influences at the National Film Board and vice versa ; Modern animation in England: UPA influences at Halas & Batchelor Cartoon Films, W.M. Larkins Studio and TVC London ; Modern animation in Italy: UPA influences at Bruno Bozzetto Film -- Modern styles in Eastern European animation : Modern animation in Yugoslavia: UPA influences at Zagreb Film ; Modern animation in Romania: Ion Popescu-Gopo ; Modern animation in Czechoslovakia: Jiř̌í Brdečka -- Modern styles in Soviet Union animation: Fyodor Khitruk -- Modern styles in Asian animation: three Japanese directors : Taiji Yabushita ; Osamu Tezuka ; Yōji Kuri -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Timelines / Stephen Bosustow : I. 1937-1960 ; II. 1950-1965 ; III. 1920-1964.
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United Productions of America.
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United Productions of America.
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Animated films-- United States.
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Animated films.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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791.43/34
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| LC Classification
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NC1766.U52U7335 2019
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