1st Edition

Animation: A World History Volume III: Contemporary Times

By Giannalberto Bendazzi Copyright 2016
    426 Pages
    by Routledge

    426 Pages
    by Routledge

    A continuation of 1994’s groundbreaking Cartoons, Giannalberto Bendazzi’s Animation: A World History is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive text of its kind, based on the idea that animation is an art form that deserves its own place in scholarship. Bendazzi delves beyond just Disney, offering readers glimpses into the animation of Russia, Africa, Latin America, and other often-neglected areas and introducing over fifty previously undiscovered artists. Full of first-hand, never before investigated, and elsewhere unavailable information, Animation: A World History encompasses the history of animation production on every continent over the span of three centuries.

    Volume III catches you up to speed on the state of animation from 1991 to present. Although characterized by such trends as economic globalization, the expansion of television series, emerging markets in countries like China and India, and the consolidation of elitist auteur animation, the story of contemporary animation is still open to interpretation. With an abundance of first-hand research and topics ranging from Nickelodeon and Pixar to modern Estonian animation, this book is the most complete record of modern animation on the market and is essential reading for all serious students of animation history.

    Key Features:

    • Over 200 high quality head shots and film stills to add visual reference to your research
    • Detailed information on hundreds of never-before researched animators and films
    • Coverage of animation from more than 90 countries and every major region of the world
    • Chronological and geographical organization for quick access to the information you’re looking for

    Table of Contents

    The sixth Period, since 1991, features economic globalization, expansion of the television series, progress of countries like Japan, Korea, China, India, consolidation of elitist auteur animation. But it is impossible to write history while it is in its making. We'll leave the Period uncharacterized, until the day we will be witnessing its ending: these are then Contemporary Times (1991 2015)

    CONTEMPORARY TIMES

    The Last Days of the Wall

    An Animation Notebook

    AMERICA

    Is TV an Art, Too?

    Animation followed

    Sub-Period 1: The Beginning, 1989-1998

    Mike Judge

    Nickelodeon’s double humour

    A matter of style

    The extremist

    Sub-Period 2: 1999-2009

    Author’s work

    Animated channels

    Limited Disney

    Renaissance in Disney Features

    The mantle of Walt

    Working on dreams

    Pixar, Character Animation in the Digital Era

    Before PIXAR

    From Toy Story to Disney

    The PixarTouch

    Computer animation

    What it looked like

    Storytelling

    CGI and Feature Films

    Tim Burton, Henry Selick, Mike Johnson

    Tim Burton

    Henry Selick

    Mike Johnson

    The Independents

    Outside Animation

    Duration: Long Form

    Duration: Time and Space

    Performance Catharsis

    Documentary

    New Yorkers

    Out There

    Digital Pulp

    Women in the Limelight

    Vibeke Sorensen

    Deanna Morse

    Joanna Priestley

    Maureen Selwood

    The Soloists

    Bill Plympton

    Igor Kovalyov

    Canada

    Steven Woloshen

    Normand Roger

    Wendy, Amanda and the others

    Jacques Drouin

    The evolution of Pierre Hébert

    EUROPE

    Great Britain: The Wonderful Years

    Animation meets video art

    Londoners

    In Manchester

    In Cardiff

    Scotland

    Ireland

    Studios

    Independents

    France

    The feature film

    Animation and Comic Strip

    3D and Infography

    TV Series

    The Short Film

    That famous touch

    Michel Ocelot

    Florence Miailhe

    Alain Gagnol & Jean-Loup Felicioli

    Borislav Šajtinac

    Belgium

    Luxemburg

    The Netherlands

    Rosto

    Michael Dudok De Wit

    Germany after Reunification

    The German Colleges as Origin of the Art of Animated Film

    The Renewal of the Abstract Animated Film

    Underground, Subversion and Animation

    Reduction

    Reflection and Narrative

    The Art of Puppet Animation

    The two young fathers

    Humorous Germany? Animated movie theatre productions

    New Form of 3D-rendered Computer Animations

    Bärbel Neubauer

    Austria

    Switzerland

    Georges Schwizgebel

    A case of form

    Denmark

    Sweden

    Magnus Carlsson

    Norway

    Finland

    Iceland

    The Invasion of the Elves

    Estonia

    Priit Pärn

    Latvia

    Lithuania

    Belarus

    Poland

    Piotr Dumała

    Jerzy Kucia

    Czech Republic

    Michaela Pavlátová

    Jiří Barta

    Jan Balej

    Pavel Koutský

    Vlasta Pospišílová

    Aurel Klimt

    Other Czech artists

    Slovakia

    Hungary

    Slovenia

    Croatia

    Joško Marušić

    Serbia

    Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Bulgaria

    Romania

    Cyprus

    Ukraine

    Georgia

    Armenia

    Robert Sahakyants

    Azerbaijan

    Greece

    Yiorgos Sifianos

    Albania

    Italy

    The Neo-Pictorial Current

    Spain

    The new era

    The turning point

    TV series

    Shorts

    Portugal

    Russia

    The 1990s, history

    The 2000s, history

    Economy

    A look back, in anger

    Tatarsky and Pilot, the greatest adventure

    Producers, the new class

    Prokhorov, from science to children films

    Directors: Aleksandr Petrov

    Directors: Oksana Cherkasova

    Directors: Dmitry Geller

    Directors: Konstantin Bronzit

    Directors: Garri Bardin

    Directors: Stanislav Sokolov

    Directors: Ivan Maksimov

    Directors: Aleksei Demin

    Directors: a trio

    Directors: in Saint Petersburg

    Directors: in Yekaterinburg

    ASIA

    Japan, Asiatic Giant

    A lost decade?

    Studio Ghibli

    Takahata Isao

    Miyazaki Hayao

    More animation studios

    Toei Animation

    Studio 4°C

    Gainax

    TMS Entertainment

    Sunrise

    Madhouse

    Production I.G

    Studio Gonzo

    Studio Bones

    Manglobe

    Kawaii

    Auteurs

    Rintaro

    Oshii Mamoru

    Kon Satoshi

    Otomo Katsuhiro

    Kawamori Shoji

    Kawajiri Yoshiaki

    Morimoto Koji

    A new kind of serial

    Examples

    Satellite channels

    The main directors of new serial animation

    Anno Hideaki

    Watanabe Shinichiro

    Yuasa Masaaki

    Hosoda Mamoru

    Shinkai Makoto

    Internet and CG anime

    Visual art + anime and manga

    Murakami Takashi

    Tabaimo

    Ishida Takashi

    The Superflat world

    Independent animation

    Shôjo Tsubaki by Harada Hiroshi

    Kurosaka Keita

    Yamamura Koji

    More independent animators

    Yokosuka Reiko

    Yonesho Maya

    Sato Dino

    Murata Tomoyasu

    Kato Kunio

    Totchka

    Sakakibara Sumito

    Oyama Kei

    Wada Atsushi

    Mizue Mirai

    Nakata Hideto

    Tsuji Naoyuki

    Conclusions

    Challenges

    Israel

    Israeli/American Tatia Rosenthal

    Turkey

    Arabian Middle East

    Palestine

    Jordan

    Syria

    Lebanon

    Iraq

    Kuwait

    Saudi Arabia

    Bahrain

    Qatar

    Emirates - Dubai

    Oman

    Yemen

    Iran

    Kazakhstan

    Zhaken Danenov, the master

    Younger Kazakhs

    Uzbekistan

    Kyrgyzstan

    New period, new horizons

    Tajikistan

    Bakhtier Kakharov

    Turkmenistan

    Mongolia

    South Korea

    China

    Short Chinese animation 1990-2000

    Investment and a new mainstream

    Animation studios

    Taiwan

    Taiwan Independent

    Hong Kong

    India

    Nepal

    SOUTHEAST ASIA

    Vietnam

    Thailand

    Malaysia

    Singapore

    Indonesia

    The Philippines

    AFRICA

    Morocco

    Algeria

    Tunisia

    Libya

    Egypt

    Mali

    Niger

    Sudan

    Ethiopia

    Senegal

    Ivory Coast

    Ghana

    Benin

    Burkina Faso

    Nigeria

    Camerun

    Kenya

    Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

    Mozambique

    Madagascar

    Zimbabwe

    The JAAG group

    South African Republic

    Frame-by-frame Animation Studios

    Klaybow Films

    Lindsay van Blerk and XYZoo

    Triggerfish Studios

    Commercial Studios

    William Kentridge

    LATIN AMERICA

    Mexico

    Feature films

    Cuba

    English-Speaking Caribbean Area

    Jamaica

    Saint Lucia

    Barbados

    Trinidad and Tobago

    Guatemala

    Honduras

    El Salvador

    Costa Rica

    Panama

    Colombia

    Venezuela

    Ecuador

    Peru

    Brazil

    Bolivia

    Paraguay

    Chile

    Argentina

    Features

    Short films

    Appearence of schools

    Uruguay

    OCEANIA

    Australia

    Volumetric Leunig

    Death becomes him

    Adam Elliot

    Anthony Lucas

    And many more

    New Zealand

    ISSUES

    Music videos

    Stereoscopy

    The audience’s literacy

    Optical perception and film language

    Machinima, real-time animation

    Biography

    A former professor at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore and the Università degli Studi of Milan, Italian-born Giannalberto Bendazzi has been thoroughly investigating the history of animation for more than forty years. A founding member of the Society for Animation Studies, he authored or edited various classics in various languages, and has lectured extensively on every continent.