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dc.contributor.authorFrank, Hannah
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-19 10:45:08
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T10:17:32Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T10:17:32Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier1005097
dc.identifierOCN: 1135845386en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25004
dc.description.abstractFor most of the twentieth century, the making of animated cartoons was mechanized and standardized to allow for high-volume production: thousands of drawings were inked and painted onto individual transparent celluloid sheets (called "cels") and then photographed in succession, a labor-intensive process that was divided across scores of artists and technicians, most of them anonymous. In order to understand how the industrial mode of production influenced the medium’s visual style, this book regards each frame of a given animated cartoon as a historical document in its own right. This new consideration of the materiality of the medium analyzes cartoons frame by frame to expose hitherto unseen qualities of the image. The book covers the different technologies of reproduction involved in this process, from photography to xerography, as well as the idiosyncrasies of the image—from abstract imagery to mistakes in reproduction—that can be seen only when the film is halted. What emerges is both a new methodology for thinking about animation, the idea of frame-by-frame analysis, and a highly original account of an art formed on the assembly line.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinemaen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherAesthetics
dc.subject.otheranimation
dc.subject.otheravant-garde
dc.subject.othercartoons
dc.subject.otherlabor
dc.subject.otherphotography
dc.subject.othertechnology
dc.titleFrame by Frame
dc.title.alternativeA Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1525/luminos.65
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b
oapen.relation.isbn9780520303621
oapen.pages278
oapen.place.publicationOakland
oapen.identifier.ocn1135845386


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