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The Akira Book - Katsuhiro Otomo: The Movie and the Manga (Hardcover, 3rd ed.): Jeremy Mark Robinson The Akira Book - Katsuhiro Otomo: The Movie and the Manga (Hardcover, 3rd ed.)
Jeremy Mark Robinson
R1,408 Discovery Miles 14 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The World of Avatar - A Visual Exploration (Hardcover): Joshua Izzo The World of Avatar - A Visual Exploration (Hardcover)
Joshua Izzo
R665 R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Save R130 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Popeye the Sailor - The 1960s TV Cartoons (Paperback): Fred M. Grandinetti Popeye the Sailor - The 1960s TV Cartoons (Paperback)
Fred M. Grandinetti
R677 Discovery Miles 6 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Handsome Heroes and Vile Villains - Masculinity in Disney's Feature Films (Paperback): Amy M. Davis Handsome Heroes and Vile Villains - Masculinity in Disney's Feature Films (Paperback)
Amy M. Davis
R628 Discovery Miles 6 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the iconic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Tangled, the 2010 retelling of Rapunzel, Handsome Heroes and Vile Villains looks at the portrayal of male characters in Disney films from the perspective of masculinity studies and feminist film theory. This companion volume to Good Girls and Wicked Witches places these depictions within the context of Hollywood and American popular culture at the time of each film s release."

Popeye the Sailor (hardback) - The 1960s TV Cartoons (Hardcover): Fred M. Grandinetti Popeye the Sailor (hardback) - The 1960s TV Cartoons (Hardcover)
Fred M. Grandinetti
R932 Discovery Miles 9 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kon Vs. Miyazaki (Paperback): Michael Andre-Driussi Kon Vs. Miyazaki (Paperback)
Michael Andre-Driussi
R282 Discovery Miles 2 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Gifted (Paperback): Jordan Le The Gifted (Paperback)
Jordan Le
R411 R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Save R62 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Cultural History of the Disney Fairy Tale - Once Upon an American Dream (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): Tracey L. Mollet A Cultural History of the Disney Fairy Tale - Once Upon an American Dream (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Tracey L. Mollet
R3,094 Discovery Miles 30 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book charts the complex history of the relationship between the Disney fairy tale and the American Dream, demonstrating the ways in which the Disney fairy tale has been reconstructed and renegotiated alongside, and in response to important changes within American society. In all of its fairy tales of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the Walt Disney studios works to sell its audiences the national myth of the United States at any one historical moment. With analyses of films and television programmes such as The Little Mermaid (1989), Frozen (2013), Beauty and the Beast (2017) and Once Upon a Time (2011-2018), Mollet argues that by giving its fairy tale protagonists characteristics associated with 'good' Americans, and even by situating their fairy tales within America itself, Disney constructs a vision of America as a utopian space.

The Transmedia Franchise of Star Wars TV (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): Dominic J. Nardi, Derek R Sweet The Transmedia Franchise of Star Wars TV (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Dominic J. Nardi, Derek R Sweet
R3,103 Discovery Miles 31 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While previous work on the Star Wars universe charts the Campbellian mythic arcs, political representations, and fan reactions associated with the films, this volume takes a transmedial approach to the material, recognizing that Star Wars TV projects interact with and relate to other Star Wars texts. The chapters in this volume take as a basic premise that the televisual entrants into the Star Wars transmedia storyworld are both important texts in the history of popular culture and also key to understanding how the Star Wars franchise-and, thus, industry-wide transmedia storytelling strategies-developed. The book expands previous work to consider television studies and sharp cultural criticism together in an effort to bring both long-running popular series, long-ignored texts, and even toy commercials to bear on the franchise's complex history.

World's Great Movie Trivia - Pixar Edition (Paperback): Catherine F Olen World's Great Movie Trivia - Pixar Edition (Paperback)
Catherine F Olen
R412 R347 Discovery Miles 3 470 Save R65 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
(Re)Creating Language Identities in Animated Films - Dubbing Linguistic Variation (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Vincenza Minutella (Re)Creating Language Identities in Animated Films - Dubbing Linguistic Variation (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Vincenza Minutella
R3,406 Discovery Miles 34 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book describes the dubbing process of English-language animated films produced by US companies in the 21st century, exploring how linguistic variation and multilingualism are used to create characters and identities and examining how Italian dubbing professionals deal with this linguistic characterisation. The analysis carried out relies on a diverse range of research tools: text analysis, corpus study and personal communications with dubbing practitioners. The book describes the dubbing workflow and dubbing strategies in Italy and seeks to identify recurrent patterns and therefore norms, as well as stereotypes or creativity in the way multilingualism and linguistic variation are tackled. It will be of interest to students and scholars of translation, linguistic variation, film and media.

The Disneyfication of Animals (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Rebecca Rose Stanton The Disneyfication of Animals (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Rebecca Rose Stanton
R3,606 Discovery Miles 36 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book critically examines how Walt Disney Animation Studios has depicted - and sometimes failed to depict - different forms of harming and objectifying non-human animals in their films. Each chapter addresses a different form of animal harm and objectification through the theories of speciesism, romanticism, and the 'collapse of compassion' effect, from farming, hunting and fishing, to clothing, work, and entertainment. Stanton lucidly presents the dichotomy between depictions of higher order, anthropomorphised and neotonised animal characters and that of lower-order species, showing furthermore how these depictions are closely linked to changing social attitudes about acceptable forms of animal harm. An engaging and novel contribution to the field of Critical Animal Studies, this book explores the use of animals not only in Disney's best known animated films such as 101 Dalmatians, but also lesser known features including Home on the Range and Fun and Fancy Free. A quantitative appendix supplying data on how often each animal species appears and the amount of times animal harm or objectification is depicted in over fifty films provides an invaluable resource and addition to scholars working in both Disney and animal studies.

What Would Spider-Man Do? - A Marvel super hero's guide to everyday life (Hardcover): Susie Rae What Would Spider-Man Do? - A Marvel super hero's guide to everyday life (Hardcover)
Susie Rae; Illustrated by Marvel Entertainment International Ltd
R244 R198 Discovery Miles 1 980 Save R46 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Late for a meeting, lost your keys or having romance problems? Sometimes we all need a little guidance, and this new series pitches our favourite super-heroes against tricky situations we will all recognise, from battles with body positivity to pacifying office conflict - with often hilarious results. With official Marvel comic-book artwork throughout, and a dynamic design, this is the perfect book for Spider-Man fans who want to see the world through the eyes of their hero.

What Would The Mighty Thor Do? - A Marvel super hero's guide to everyday life (Hardcover): Susie Rae What Would The Mighty Thor Do? - A Marvel super hero's guide to everyday life (Hardcover)
Susie Rae; Illustrated by Marvel Entertainment International Ltd
R244 R199 Discovery Miles 1 990 Save R45 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Dealing with a dead phone, ordering a coffee or stuck with DIY around the home? Sometimes we all need a little guidance, and this new series pitches our favourite super-heroes against real-life (and often tricky) situations we will all recognise, from pet ownership to fashion tips - with often hilarious results. With official Marvel comic-book artwork throughout, and a dynamic design, this is the perfect gift book for Thor fans who want to see the world through the eyes of their hero.

Animation and Memory (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): Maarten van Gageldonk, Laszlo Muntean, Ali Shobeiri Animation and Memory (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Maarten van Gageldonk, Laszlo Muntean, Ali Shobeiri
R3,117 Discovery Miles 31 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the role of memory in animation, as well as the ways in which the medium of animation can function as a technology of remembering and forgetting. By doing so, it establishes a platform for the cross-fertilization between the burgeoning fields of animation studies and memory studies. By analyzing a wide range of different animation types, from stop motion to computer animation, and from cell animated cartoons to painted animation, this book explores the ways in which animation can function as a representational medium. The five parts of the book discuss the interrelation of animation and memory through the lens of materiality, corporeality, animation techniques, the city, and animated documentaries. These discussions raise a number of questions: how do animation films bring forth personal and collective pasts? What is the role of found footage, objects, and sound in the material and affective dimensions of animation? How does animation serve political ends? The essays in this volume offer answers to these questions through a wide variety of case studies and contexts. The book will appeal to both a broad academic and a more general readership with an interest in animation studies, memory studies, cultural studies, comparative visual arts, and media studies. Chapter "Introduction" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Representation in Steven Universe (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): John R. Ziegler, Leah Richards Representation in Steven Universe (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
John R. Ziegler, Leah Richards
R2,868 Discovery Miles 28 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book assembles ten scholarly examinations of the politics of representation in the groundbreaking animated children's television series Steven Universe. These analyses address a range of representational sites and subjects, including queerness, race, fandom, colonialism, and the environment, and provide an accessible foundation for further scholarship. The introduction contextualizes Steven Universe in the children's science-fiction and anime traditions and discusses the series' crucial mechanic of fusion. Subsequent chapters probe the fandom's expressions of queer identity, approach the series' queer force through the political potential of the animated body, consider the unequal privilege of different female characters, and trace the influence of anime director Kunihiko Ikuhara. Further chapters argue that Ronaldo allows satire of multiple media forms, focus on Onion as a surrealist trickster, and contemplate cross-species hybridity and consent. The final chapters concentrate on background art in connection with ecological and geological narratives, adopt a decolonial perspective on the Gems' legacy, and interrogate how the tension between personal and cultural narratives constantly recreates memory.

Animating Unpredictable Effects - Nonlinearity in Hollywood's R&D Complex (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Jordan Gowanlock Animating Unpredictable Effects - Nonlinearity in Hollywood's R&D Complex (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Jordan Gowanlock
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Uncanny computer-generated animations of splashing waves, billowing smoke clouds, and characters' flowing hair have become a ubiquitous presence on screens of all types since the 1980s. This Open Access book charts the history of these digital moving images and the software tools that make them. Unpredictable Visual Effects uncovers an institutional and industrial history that saw media industries conducting more private R&D as Cold War federal funding began to wane in the late 1980s. In this context studios and media software companies took concepts used for studying and managing unpredictable systems like markets, weather, and fluids and turned them into tools for animation. Unpredictable Visual Effects theorizes how these animations are part of a paradigm of control evident across society, while at the same time exploring what they can teach us about the relationship between making and knowing.

Hanna-Barbera - A History (Paperback): Jared Bahir Browsh Hanna-Barbera - A History (Paperback)
Jared Bahir Browsh
R1,192 R1,108 Discovery Miles 11 080 Save R84 (7%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

With careers spanning eight decades, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were two of the most prolific animation producers in American history. In 1940, the two met at MGM and created Tom and Jerry, who would earn 14 Academy Award nominations and seven wins. The growth of television led to the founding of Hanna-Barbera's legendary studio that produced countless hours of cartoons, with beloved characters from Fred Flintstone, George Jetson and Scooby-Doo to the Super Friends and the Smurfs. Prime-time animated sitcoms, Saturday morning cartoons, and Cartoon Network's cable animation are some of the many areas of television revolutionized by the team. Their productions are critical to our cultural history, reflecting ideologies and trends in both media and society. This book offers a complete company history and examines its productions' influences, changing technologies, and enduring cultural legacy, with careful attention to Hanna-Barbera's problematic record of racial and gender representation.

Drawing The Line (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition): Clare Scopes Drawing The Line (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Clare Scopes
R512 R436 Discovery Miles 4 360 Save R76 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Animating Unpredictable Effects - Nonlinearity in Hollywood's R&D Complex (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Jordan Gowanlock Animating Unpredictable Effects - Nonlinearity in Hollywood's R&D Complex (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Jordan Gowanlock
R1,001 Discovery Miles 10 010 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Uncanny computer-generated animations of splashing waves, billowing smoke clouds, and characters' flowing hair have become a ubiquitous presence on screens of all types since the 1980s. This Open Access book charts the history of these digital moving images and the software tools that make them. Unpredictable Visual Effects uncovers an institutional and industrial history that saw media industries conducting more private R&D as Cold War federal funding began to wane in the late 1980s. In this context studios and media software companies took concepts used for studying and managing unpredictable systems like markets, weather, and fluids and turned them into tools for animation. Unpredictable Visual Effects theorizes how these animations are part of a paradigm of control evident across society, while at the same time exploring what they can teach us about the relationship between making and knowing.

The Total Television Scrapbook (Paperback): Mark Arnold, Victoria Biggers The Total Television Scrapbook (Paperback)
Mark Arnold, Victoria Biggers
R854 Discovery Miles 8 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Animated Peter Lorre (Paperback): Matthew Hahn The Animated Peter Lorre (Paperback)
Matthew Hahn
R836 Discovery Miles 8 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
It's All in the Mind - Inside the Beatles' Yellow Submarine, Vol. 2 (Paperback): Robert R. Hieronimus, Laura E Cortner It's All in the Mind - Inside the Beatles' Yellow Submarine, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
Robert R. Hieronimus, Laura E Cortner; Cover design or artwork by Heinz Edelmann
R1,125 R909 Discovery Miles 9 090 Save R216 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Anime Machine - A Media Theory of Animation (Paperback): Thomas Lamarre The Anime Machine - A Media Theory of Animation (Paperback)
Thomas Lamarre
R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Despite the longevity of animation and its significance within the history of cinema, film theorists have focused on live-action motion pictures and largely ignored hand-drawn and computer-generated movies. Thomas Lamarre contends that the history, techniques, and complex visual language of animation, particularly Japanese animation, demands serious and sustained engagement, and in "The Anime Machine" he lays the foundation for a new critical theory for reading Japanese animation, showing how anime fundamentally differs from other visual media.

"The Anime Machine" defines the visual characteristics of anime and the meanings generated by those specifically "animetic" effects-the multiplanar image, the distributive field of vision, exploded projection, modulation, and other techniques of character animation-through close analysis of major films and television series, studios, animators, and directors, as well as Japanese theories of animation. Lamarre first addresses the technology of anime: the cells on which the images are drawn, the animation stand at which the animator works, the layers of drawings in a frame, the techniques of drawing and blurring lines, how characters are made to move. He then examines foundational works of anime, including the films and television series of Miyazaki Hayao and Anno Hideaki, the multimedia art of Murakami Takashi, and CLAMP's manga and anime adaptations, to illuminate the profound connections between animators, characters, spectators, and technology.

Working at the intersection of the philosophy of technology and the history of thought, Lamarre explores how anime and its related media entail material orientations and demonstrates concretely how the "animetic machine" encourages a specific approach to thinking about technology and opens new ways for understanding our place in the technologized world around us.

The Art of Katsuhiro Otomo (Hardcover, 3rd ed.): Jeremy Mark Robinson The Art of Katsuhiro Otomo (Hardcover, 3rd ed.)
Jeremy Mark Robinson
R1,611 Discovery Miles 16 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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