French Animation History
Book Details
Author(s)
Richard Neupert
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN
1118798767
ISBN-13
9781118798768
Availability
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Sales Rank
#2,361,577
Category
Performing Arts
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
French Animation History is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of animation, illuminating the exceptional place France holds within that history.
- Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011
- The first book dedicated exclusively to this history
- Explores how French animators have forged their own visual styles, narrative modes, and technological innovations to construct a distinct national style, while avoiding the clichés and conventions of Hollywood’s commercial cartoons
- Includes more than 80 color and black and white images from the most influential films, from early silent animation to the recent internationally renowned Persepolis
- Essential reading for anyone interested in the study of French film
