Cartoons One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation

Cartoons-- One Hundred Years Of Cinema Animation provides the first comprehensively detailed history and critique of cinema animation produced around the world. It is the long-awaited English language edition of a reference book which has already been acclaimed as a classic work of scholarship, it its Italian and French editions, on the marvelous and exciting subject of animated cinema.

Few works have been so anticipated as Anna Taraboletti-Segre's splendid translation of Bendazzi's comprehensive history of animation cinema. This work reviews the decades of development in animation, from individuals like Emile Reynaud and Emile Cohl through the studios of Disney and the National Film Board of Canada into the revolutionary realm of computer animation. The thoroughness of Cartoons is evident in its international scope, for example, its inclusion of the exciting and neglected work produced in Latin America and Asia. This marvelous encyclopedia is brilliantly illustrated with dazzling color plates. Its scholarly breadth, richness, and attention to detail, along with its amazingly readable and engaging narrative, make this the most indispensable text on world animation history. Enthusiastically recommended as both a fascinating story and an incredible reference resource for both scholars and aficionados of the art of film.T. Lindvall, Regent University, Choice, April 1995 Indiana University Press

"Enthusiastically recommended as both a fascinating story and an incredible reference resource for both scholars and aficionados of the art of film." --Choice Indiana University Press

"... its encyclopedic style will find it a place in the library of everyone interested in the subject."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-456) and indexes.

GIANNALBERTO BENDAZZI is a founding member of the Society for Animation Studies and a former member of the board of directors of ASIFA (Association internationale du film d'animation).

Introduction

Preface: Elegy to Animated Film

I. ANIMATION CINEMA--THE FIRST FOUR DECADES (1888-1929)

1. The beginning

2. Animation in the Untied States of America

3. The European Individualists

4. Argentina: The world's first animated feature film

5. United States of America: Breaking the sound barrier

6. Walt Disney: The world's most successful animation studio

II. ANIMATION IN THE 1930s

7. Europe

8. United States of America: Animation heads West

9. Talent in Other Countries

10. The Masters of Animation

III. ANIMATION OVER THE NEXT THREE DECADES 91940-1970)

11. The United States of America

12. The Canadian Phenomenon

13. Western Europe

14. Eastern Europe

15. Animation in Asia

16. Animation in Latin America

IV. A NEW WAVE IN ANIMATION (1970s AND 1980s)

17. United States of America

18. Canada

19. Western Europe: The new generation

20. Eastern Europe

21. Latin America

22. Africa

23. New REalities in Asia

24. Australasia

25. The Globe Trotters of Animation

V. AFTERWORD

26. The Electronic Age

27. Computers and Animators

VI. REFERENCE

Bibliography

Indexes - Names and Film Titles