Animation: The Global History

Provisional contentsIntroduction: Maureen FurnissGlobal PerspectivesCecile Starr, “Fine Art Animation” The Art of the Animated Image: An Anthology; William Moritz, “Some Critical Perspectives on Lotte Reiniger” Animation Journal; Esther Leslie, “it’s mickey mouse” Hollywood Flatlands; Terence Dobson, “Norman McLaren: His UNESCO Work in Asia” Animation Journal; Patrick Drazen, “Conventions versus Clichés” Anime Explosion! The What? Why? &Wow! of Japanese Animation; Helen McCarthy, “My Neighbor Totoro” Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation; Marian Quigley, “Glocalisation vs. Globalization: The Work of Nick Park and Peter Lord.” Animation Journal; Terry Lindvall and Matthew Melton, “Toward a Postmodern Animated Discourse: Bakhtin, Intertexuality and the Cartoon Carnival” Animation Journal; Edwin Carels, “1895: Animation, History and the Metafilm” Animation Journal; Jørgen Stensland, “Innocent Play or the Copycat Effect? Computer Game Research and Classification” Animation JournalAnimation in AmericaJohn Canemaker, “Winsor McCay.” The American Animated Cartoon; J.B. Kaufman, “The Live Wire: Margaret J. Winkler and Animation History” Unpublished essay; Bill Mikulak, “Disney and the Art World: The Early Years” Animation Journal; John Lewell, “The Art of Chuck Jones.” Films and Filming; Charles Solomon, “The Disney Studio at War” Jules Engel, Jules, Untitled essay in “The United Productions of America: Reminiscing Thirty Years Later” Edited by William Moritz. ASIFA Canada; Karl Cohen, “Blacklisted Animators” Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America; Michael Frierson, “Clay Animation and the Early Days of Television: The ‘Gumby’ series” Clay Animation: American Highlights 1908 to the Present; Bill Hanna and Tom Ito, “Commercial Breaks.” A Cast of Friends; George Griffin, “Cartoon, Anti-Cartoon.” The American Animated Cartoon; James Lindner (moderator); John Lasseter; Tina Price; and Carl Rosendahl, “Computers, New Technology and Animation” Storytelling in Animation: The Art of the Animated Image; Sean Griffin, “The Illusion of ‘Identity’: Gender and Racial Representation in Aladdin.” Animation Journal; Linda Simensky, “Selling Bugs Bunny: Warner Bros. and Character Merchandising in the Nineties” Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation

edited by Maureen Furniss