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864482
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Cook, Malcolm,1976-
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Early British animation : : from page and stage to cinema screens /\ Malcolm Cook.
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| Publication Statement
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2018]
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, ©2018
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1 online resource :: illustrations
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3319734288
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: 9783319734286
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: 9783319734293
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3319734288
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9783319734286
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Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction: Early British Animation; British Animated Cartoons: A Neglected Field of Study; Reassessing British Animation: New Sources, New Methods; Defining Animation and Its Techniques; Animation and the British Film Industry; Historiography and Animation; Organisation; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Alternative Artists' Films; Artistic Circles: Networks and Institutions; 'Cheap Popular Art': The Denigration of Commercial Graphic Art; Film and the Commercial Graphic Arts
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Modernity and Art HistoryModernity and Film History; The Modernity Thesis and Animation History; The Lightning Cartoon and Modernity; Comedy Cartoons: Attraction and Narrative; Visual Perception and the Lightning Cartoon; Facial Recognition: A Specialised Perceptual Function; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 5: The First World War: British Animated Cartoons and Their International Contexts; Early International Relationships at the Turn of the Century; The First World War and the Growth of Animated Cartoons; 'All British': Nationality and the Animated Cartoon
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Political Engagement: Commentary, Satire and PropagandaExperimentation and the Material Processes of Artistic Production; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 3: The Lightning Cartoon: Animation from Music Hall to Cinema; Music Hall and the Lightning Cartoon Act; Topicality and Political Commentary; High and Low Art; The Narrative of Perception; Anticipating Animation; Victorian Animated Cartoons: Tom Merry and the Lightning Cartoon on Film; Walter Booth: Animating the Lightning Cartoon; Animated Cartoons in the 1910s; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Perception, Modernism and Modernity
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The Dualities of Performance and the Appeal to the Pre-logical MindCel Animation and the Ambiguity of Line Drawings; Len Lye and Tusalava; Bibliography; Chapter 8: Conclusion: British Animation, Talkies and the Cinematograph Films Act 1927; The Cinematograph Films Act 1927; British Animation and the Coming of Sound; Bibliography; Filmography; British Films; International Films; Index
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The Growth of American Imports, 1917-1921Aesthetic Criteria: The Judgement of Animated Cartoons; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 6: The 'Primitive' Appeal of Cartooning and Animation; Modernism, Primitivism and Film; E.H. Gombrich and the Primitive Appeal of Cartooning and Caricature; Eisenstein, Animation and the 'Plasmatic'; A.R. Luria and the Cultural Basis of Cognition; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Primitive Animation: British Animated Cartoons in the 1920s; Colonial Subjects: The Depiction of the Primitive; Altered States and Alternative Perception
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This book is the first history of British animated cartoons, from the earliest period of cinema in the 1890s up to the late 1920s. In this period cartoonists and performers from earlier traditions of print and stage entertainment came to film to expand their artistic practice, bringing with them a range of techniques and ideas that shaped the development of British animation. These were commercial rather than avant-garde artists, but they nevertheless saw the new medium of cinema as offering the potential to engage with modern concerns of the early 20th century, be it the political and human turmoil of the First World War or new freedoms of the 1920s. Cook's examination and reassessment of these films and their histories reveals their close attention and play with the way audiences saw the world. As such, this book offers new insight into the changing understanding of vision at that time as Britain's place in the world was reshaped in the early 20th century.
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Animated films-- Great Britain-- History.
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Animated films.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Reference.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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791.4334/0941
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| LC Classification
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PN1997.5
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