Bendazzi G. Animation: A World History. Volume 1. Foundations - The Golden Age

Routledge, 2016. — 238 p. — ISBN13: 978-1138035317A 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 I traces the roots and predecessors of modern animation, the history behind Émile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie, and twenty years of silent animated films. Encompassing the formative years of the art form through its Golden Age, this book accounts for animation history through 1950 and covers everything from well-known classics like Steamboat Willie to animation in Egypt and Nazi Germany. 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.Foundations
What It Is
Mapping Chaos
Turning Points
Periods
Guilty, but with an Explanation
Traces
You Won’t Find...
A Hybrid
The First Period
Before Fantasmagorie (0–1908)
The Second Period
The Silent Pioneers (1908–1928)
Silent America I
Silent America II
Silent Europe
Silent Asia
Silent Latin America
Silent Africa
Silent Oceania
The Third Period
The Golden Age (1928–1951)
America Laughs!
Europe
Soviet Union
Asia
Latin America
Africa