Description
About the Author
SCOTT CURTIS is an associate professor of radio, television, and film studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and the director of the communication program at Northwestern University in Qatar. He is the author of The Shape of Spectatorship: Art, Science, and Early Cinema in Germany.
Reviews
"Scott Curtis has assembled a truly valuable volume unified around the ways that shifting labor and economic conditions, technological developments, and aesthetic experimentation continually renewed and remade animation over the years. Each author clearly and convincingly confronts how commercial trends and artisanal alternatives help us understand animation's place in American media culture." -- Richard Neupert * author of French Animation History and John Lasseter *
"A well-researched survey of American animation, written by leading scholars in the field. With its clear writing style, incorporation of production details, and ample examples, this book will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in theatrical, television, artisanal, and CG animation-and more." -- Maureen Furniss * author of Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics *
"Animation is a phenomenal and phenomenally useful survey of animation in the United States. Editor Scott Curtis and his contributors have artfully examined American animation in its many forms-commercial and fine art, analog, and digital, full and limited-and grounded their insights into the art and craft of the cartoon in very specific historical, aesthetic, and technological circumstances. Rich in detail and nuance, the result is a compendium of carefully crafted essays that are an instructive and enjoyable read for animation fans and an excellent companion in the classroom." -- Nicholas Sammond * author of Birth of An Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation *
"Scott Curtis has assembled a truly valuable volume unified around the ways that shifting labor and economic conditions, technological developments, and aesthetic experimentation continually renewed and remade animation over the years. Each author clearly and convincingly confronts how commercial trends and artisanal alternatives help us understand animation's place in American media culture." -- Richard Neupert * author of French Animation History and John Lasseter *
"A well-researched survey of American animation, written by leading scholars in the field. With its clear writing style, incorporation of production details, and ample examples, this book will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in theatrical, television, artisanal, and CG animation-and more." -- Maureen Furniss * author of Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics *
"Animation is a phenomenal and phenomenally useful survey of animation in the United States. Editor Scott Curtis and his contributors have artfully examined American animation in its many forms-commercial and fine art, analog, and digital, full and limited-and grounded their insights into the art and craft of the cartoon in very specific historical, aesthetic, and technological circumstances. Rich in detail and nuance, the result is a compendium of carefully crafted essays that are an instructive and enjoyable read for animation fans and an excellent companion in the classroom." -- Nicholas Sammond * author of Birth of An Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation *
Book Information
ISBN 9780813570266
Author Scott Curtis
Format Hardback
Page Count 231
Imprint Rutgers University Press
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Weight(grams) 463g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm