Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons

278 Pages·2019·11.21 MB·English

by  Hannah Frank

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Frame by Frame
The publisher and the University of California Press Foundation
gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the
Ahmanson • Murphy Imprint in Fine Arts.
The publisher also gratefully acknowledges the generous support
of the Department of Film Studies at the University of North
Carolina Wilmington and, at the University of Chicago, the
Department of Cinema and Media Studies, the Division of the
Humanities, and Yuri Tsivian.
Frame by Frame
A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons
Hannah Frank
Edited and with an introduction by Daniel Morgan
Foreword by Tom Gunning
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© 2019 by Hannah Frank
Suggested citation: Frank, H. Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of
Animated Cartoons. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.65
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Frank, Hannah, 1984–2017, author. | Morgan, Daniel, 1977- editor,
writer of introduction. | Gunning, Tom, 1949- writer of foreword.
Title: Frame by frame : a materialist aesthetics of animated cartoons /
Hannah Frank ; edited and with an introduction by Daniel Morgan;
foreword by Tom Gunning.
Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA license.
To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018044521 (print) | LCCN 2018048471 (ebook) | ISBN
9780520972773 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520303621 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Animated films—History and criticism. | Motion
pictures—Aesthetics.
Classification: LCC NC1765 (ebook) | LCC NC1765 .F65 2019 (print) | DDC
791.43/3409—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018044521
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FOR MY FAMILY
IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER
Apparently he had examined them patiently picture by picture and
imagined that they would be screened in the same way, failing at that
time to grasp the principle of the cinematograph.
—Flann O’Brien
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Foreword: Hannah Frank’s Pause by Tom Gunning xi
Editor’s Introduction by Daniel Morgan xix
Acknowledgments xlix
Introduction: Looking at Labor 1
1. Animation and Montage; or, Photographic Records of Documents 13
2. A View of the World: Toward a Photographic Theory of Cel Animation 44
3. Pars Pro Toto: Character Animation and the Work of the
Anonymous Artist 74
4. The Multiplication of Traces: Xerographic Reproduction and
One Hundred and One Dalmatians 108
Conclusion: The Labor of Looking 144
Notes 157
Bibliography 189
Index 207
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