1st Edition

Animation: A World History Volume II: The Birth of a Style - The Three Markets

By Giannalberto Bendazzi Copyright 2016
    476 Pages
    by Routledge

    476 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 II delves into the decades following the Golden Age, an uncertain time when television series were overshadowing feature films, art was heavily influenced by the Cold War, and new technologies began to emerge that threatened the traditional methods of animation. Take part in the turmoil of the 1950s through 90s as American animation began to lose its momentum and the advent of television created a global interest in the art form. With a wealth of new research, hundreds of photographs and film stills, and an easy-to-navigate organization, this book 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 fourth Period is short and runs from 1951 (date of projection of the UPA short Gerald McBoing Boing) to 1960, the date of the first international animation film festival (Annecy, France). It is characterized by indecision. Disney and his imitators lost momentum, the UPA proposed a new style, the television age began, and an original animation output was born in Europe. We'll christen it The Birth of a Style (1951 1960).

    AMERICA

    Culture

    Almighty and suspicious

    Gerald McBoing Boing

    UPA

    Pete Burness

    Robert Cannon

    John Hubley

    Theory from practice

    The galaxy

    Walt Disney

    Warner Bros.

    Chuck Jones

    Michael Maltese

    The resurgence of Terrytoons

    Walter Lantz’s Oasis

    MGM’s cat and mouse

    From Fleischer to Famous

    Bunin’s puppets

    TELEVISION 101

    TV and American animation

    Jay Ward

    TV and animated commercials

    The West Coast Experimental film movement

    Jordan Belson

    Harry Smith, heaven and earth magician

    The Enigma of Hy Hirsh

    The Canadian Phenomenon

    Norman McLaren

    EUROPE

    WESTERN EUROPE

    Great Britain

    John David Wilson

    John Halas

    France

    Grimault and the stories from the front

    Ladislas Starewitch and the feature film

    Germany

    Federal Republic of Germany

    Austria

    Switzerland

    Denmark

    Kaj Pindal

    Bent Barfod

    Norway

    Finland

    Italy

    Portugal

    Greece

    EASTERN EUROPE

    Czechoslovakia and puppets

    Hermína Týrlová

    Karel Zeman

    Jiří Trnka

    The Music of the Puppets

    Poland

    Hungary

    Yugoslavia: the first stage of the Zagreb School

    Croatia

    Bulgaria

    Romania

    SOVIET UNION

    Russia

    Ivan Ivanov-Vano

    Lithuania

    Georgia

    ASIA

    Japan

    Toei Doga’s start-up

    Praiseworthy people

    Mori Yasuji

    Otogi Pro

    Experiments

    China

    LATIN AMERICA

    Mexico

    Venezuela

    Brazil

    Argentina

    AFRICA

    South African Republic

    THE THREE MARKETS

    Global Stability

    It seemed such an easy game

    Animation forks

    AMERICA

    On the big screen - Shorts

    On the big screen – Feature films

    Stephen Bosustow

    A Cat in the Heavy Traffic

    Ray Harryhausen

    On the small screen

    Weston Woods, from book to film

    Independent filmmakers

    Ernest Pintoff

    Jane Aaron

    John Canemaker

    George Griffin

    Those talented inventive people

    John and Faith Hubley

    Will Vinton

    Fine Artists for Animation

    Jules Engel

    Robert Breer

    John Whitney

    James Whitney

    Lawrence Jordan

    People not to overlook

    Stan Van der Beek

    Canada

    The National Film Board goes to Heaven

    Pierre Hébert

    Vancouver & Co.

    Caroline Leaf

    Ishu Patel

    Frédéric Back

    Western EUROPE

    Cartoon EU

    Clusters of studios

    New technologies

    The pre-production

    CARTOON FORUM

    The CARTOON D'OR

    CARTOON MOVIE

    Western Europe: The New Generation

    Great Britain: the good years

    Alison De Vere

    The Quay Brothers

    Young Aardman & Co.

    George Dunning

    Yellow Submarine

    Richard Williams

    Bob Godfrey

    Ireland

    Aidan Hickey

    Jimmy Murakami

    France: from craftsmanship to ambition

    Other French animators

    Jean-François Laguionie

    Piotr Kamler

    Walerian Borowczyk

    Peter Földes

    The roaring 1980s

    Belgium

    Raoul Servais

    The Netherlands

    Børge Ring

    Paul Driessen

    West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany)

    Wolfgang Urchs

    Helmut Herbst

    Franz Winzentsen

    The 1980s

    Curt Linda

    Jan Lenica

    Switzerland

    Austria

    Italy: allegro non troppo

    Bruno Bozzetto

    Gianini and Luzzati

    Osvaldo Cavandoli

    Guido Manuli

    Manfredo Manfredi

    Cioni Carpi

    Greece

    Spain

    Francisco Macián

    The Entertainment Companies

    The Independents

    Portugal

    Artur Correia

    Ricardo Neto

    More talents

    Denmark

    Lejf Marcussen

    Jannik Hastrup

    Norway

    Sweden: growth

    Finland: reserved and serene

    Iceland

    EASTERN EUROPE

    German Democratic Republic

    Underground Animation Films

    Czechoslovakia: Trnka’s heirs

    Jiří Brdečka

    The Horse Opera

    Břetislav Pojar

    Jan Švankmajer

    Besides the masters

    Slovakia

    Poland: the poetry of pessimism

    Mirosław Kijowicz

    Daniel Szczechura

    Stefan Schabenbeck

    Ryzsard Czekała

    Experiments, craftmanship and sarcasm

    Hungary

    Yugoslavia: the new Zagreb School

    Tomica Simović, animating the orchestra

    Nedeljko Dragić

    Zlatko Grgić

    Borivoj Dovniković

    Igor Savin, animating the synthesizer

    Zlatko Bourek

    Ante Zaninović

    Marks & Jutriša

    Pavao Štalter

    Zdenko Gašparović

    Joško Marušić

    Other Artists

    Beyond Zagreb

    Slovenia

    Serbia

    Nikola Majdak produced

    Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Macedonia

    Albania

    Bulgaria

    Romania

    Soviet Union I

    Russia

    Thaw

    Acclaim

    Stagnation

    The best animation ever

    Stagnation after Stagnation

    Quality hatches at Soyuzmultfilm

    Anatoly Karanovich

    Roman Kachanov

    At long last Cheburashka

    Anatoly Petrov

    Boris Stepantsev

    Nikolay Serebriakov

    Ivan Ufimtsev

    Vadim Kurchevsky

    Gennady Sokolsky

    Leonid Nosyrev

    Stanislav Sokolov

    Ideya Garanina

    Nina Shorina

    And many, many more

    Multtelefilm, Soyuzmultfilm’s competitor

    Aida Zyabliakova

    Anatoly Solin

    Fedor Khitruk

    Eduard Nazarov

    Garri Bardin

    Andrei Khrzhanovsky

    Yuri Norstein

    Francesca Yarbusova

    The Old and the New

    Perestroika

    Soviet Union II

    Ukraine

    1960 -1963 the stage of formation

    1964-1967 creative searches

    Creative upraise (1968 -1984)

    1985-1991. Perestroika (the rebuilding).

    Moldova

    Belarus

    Lithuania

    Latvia

    Arnolds Burovs

    More puppeteers

    Starting from cut-outs

    Šmerlis

    Estonia

    Georgia

    Armenia

    Azerbaijan

    Uzbekistan

    The puppets of the 1960s

    One decade later

    The heyday

    Kazakhstan

    Amen Khaidarov

    Kyrgyzstan

    Trial of strength (1977-1980)

    Art-houses and fairy tales (1981-1987)

    The triumph of art-houses (1987-1990)

    Tajikistan

    ASIA

    Israel

    Turkey

    Iraq

    And Sesame opened

    Iran

    Japan

    Japanese Television

    Astro Boy and the beginning of TV animation

    Tezuka Osamu

    Mushi Productions

    Tezuka Productions

    Studio Tatsunoko

    A Production/Shin’ei Doga

    Toei’s fortunes

    Animeshon sannin no kai

    Kuri Yoji

    Animation Vs Art Video

    Puppet Animation

    Kawamoto Kihachiro

    The Tokusatsu factor

    The anime boom in the West

    Before the anime boom

    In Europe

    In the United States

    The ten champions

    UFO Robo Grendizer

    Mazinger Z

    Uchu senkan Yamato

    Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman

    Uchu kaizoku Captain Harlock

    Candy Candy

    Kido senshi Gundam

    Versailles no bara

    Urusei yatsura

    Captain Tsubasa

    Anime

    Otaku

    The Original Anime Video

    Collaborations

    The Crisis of the Mid 1980s

    Akira and the End of the Decade

    China

    Vietnam

    India

    The Films Division

    Limited animation

    The private studios

    Animation Education

    Personal films

    The Black Decade

    Sri Lanka

    Indonesia

    Thailand

    Taiwan

    Mongolia

    Singapore

    Malaysia

    The Philippines

    Hong Kong

    North Korea

    South Korea

    AFRICA

    Egypt

    Tunisia

    Algeria

    Senegal

    Mali

    Niger

    Burkina Faso

    Liberia

    Ivory Coast

    Ghana

    Togo

    Cameroon

    Zaire

    Burundi

    Zambia

    Mauritius

    Mozambique

    South African Republic

    The SABC Animation Unit

    Alternative Animation Commissioned for South African Television (1976-1988)

    Dave McKey Animation Services

    Annie-Mation Studios

    Glenn Coppens Cartoons

    LATIN AMERICA

    Mexico

    Costa Rica

    Cuba

    Nicaragua

    Colombia

    Venezuela

    Peru

    Bolivia

    Jesús Pérez

    Brazil

    Uruguay

    Argentina

    Chile

    OCEANIA

    Australia

    Yoram Gross

    Independent filmmakers

    Avant-garde animation

    Harry Reade

    New Zealand

    ISSUES

    Computers and animation

    Those masters’ voices

    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.