Classical Animated Documentary and Its Contemporary Evolution

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Cristina Formenti

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The Classical Animated Documentary and Its Contemporary Evolution is the first book to provide an historical insight into the animated documentary. Drawing on archival research and textual analysis, it shows how this form, usually believed to be strictly contemporaneous, instead took shape in the 1940s. Cristina Formenti integrates a theoretical and a historical approach in order to shed new light on the animated documentary as a form as well as on the work of renowned studios such as The Walt Disney Studios, Halas & Batchelor, National Film Board of Canada and never before addressed ones, such as Corona Cinematografica. She also highlights the differences and the similarities existing among the animated documentaries created between the 1940s and the mid-1980s and those produced today so as to demonstrate how the latter do not represent a complete otherness in respect to the former, but rather an evolution.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-11-30
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501376108

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Cristina Formenti is Assistant Professor in Film Studies at University of Udine, Italy. She is author of Il mockumentary: la fiction si maschera da documentario (2013), and editor of Mariangela Melato tra cinema, teatro e televisione (2016) and Valentina Cortese: un’attrice intermediale (2019). Her work has appeared in various national and international journals, such as Studies in Documentary Film, Alphaville, and Horror Studies. Dr. Formenti is also the co-editor of the journal Animation Studies and currently serves on the Board of the Society for Animation Studies.

List of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations IntroductionPart I: Theoretical and Historical Issues1. Reality’s Two Animated Faces 2. The Sincerest Form of Docudrama3. A New Periodization for an Old FormPart II: The Rise and Affirmation of an Audiovisual Form4. The Age of the Origins, 1909-395. The Classical Age, 1940-856. The United States7. Great Britain8. Canada9. ItalyPart III: The Contemporary Production, 1986 and Beyond10. Private Truths and Inner Realities11. The Persistence of the Classical Animated DocumentaryConclusion: Towards a Post-Animated Documentary Age?NotesReferencesIndex

This is a valuable addition to debates around the under-theorised subgenre of animated documentary. It traces the historical emergence of a graphic (and aural) vocabulary for this subgenre, dating from the early twentieth century within a variety of national and institutional contexts. It convincingly demonstrates the deep historical roots of the range of animation within newer online, interactive and immersive forms of documentary.