The Art of Czech Animation
A History of Political Dissent and Allegory
The Art of Czech Animation is the first comprehensive English language account of Czech animation from the 1920s to the present, covering both 2D animation forms and CGI, with a focus upon the stop-motion films of Jirí Trnka, Hermína Týrlová, Jan svankmajer and Jirí Barta.Stop-motion is a highly embodied form of animation and The Art of Czech Animation develops a new materialist approach to studying these films. Instead of imposing top-down Film Theory onto its case studies, the book's analysis is built up from close readings of the films themselves, with particular attention given to their non-human objects.In a time of environmental crisis,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-350-10465-5
- EAN: 9781350104655
- Produktnummer: 34286842
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'641 KB
- Abbildungen: 16 bw illus
Über den Autor
Adam Whybray lectures in Film Studies at the University of Suffolk. He gained his PhD in the Philosophy of Film from the University of Exeter in 2015. He previously contributed the chapter ''Well futile': Nathan Barley and post-ironic culture' to James Leggott and Jamie Sexton's 2013 publication No Known Cure: The Comedy of Chris Morris and has articles published in the journals Comedy Studies, Childhood Remixed and Gothic Studies. He has previously given given conference papers on the fairytale games of Stephen Lavelle and Emily Short, Edgar Allan Poe, the 2010 London student protests and the avant-garde band The Residents. In his spare time he co-hosts Still Scared, a podcast on children's horror, produces text-only video games and is an active member of Extinction Rebellion with his wonderful partner Antonia.
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