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248 pages ; ill. ; col. ; 27 cm. INTRODUCTION -- 6 Expanding Your Thinking about Animation -- 7 Intended Aims & Outcomes of this Book -- 8 Outline of Book Structure, Themes & Subject Matter -- 10 Keeping an Online Reflective Workbook -- CHAPTER ONE LANGUAGE & VISUAL MEANING: PLAYING SHERLOCK HOLMES -- 14 Introduction -- 16 Apples: Introducing Structuralism & Semiotics -- 20 Workbook Exercise 1.1: Semiotic Analysis of Snow White (Disney) & Nosferatu (Murnau) -- 24 Workbook Exercise 1.2: Applying Semiotics to Layout Design -- 26 Love Letters: Semantics -- 30 Workbook Exercise 1.3: Applying Semantics to Set Design -- 34 Time Travel: From Monoscenic to Synchronic & Diachronic Narrative -- 35 Case Study: Synchronic Layout Design from West Pier by Mark Collington -- 36 Case Study: Creating a Synchronic Narrative Set Design -- 40 Chapter Summary & Further Reading 42 Key Words, Names & Works -- CHAPTER TWO CLASSICAL METANARRATIVES: THE HERO'S JOURNEY -- 46 Introduction -- 48 Heroes & Totems: Morphology, Narratology, Mythology -- 56 Castle in the Sky: Mythical Forces, Floating Worlds & Flying Machines -- 62 Workbook Exercise 2.1: Applying The 'Writer's Journey' To Laputa, Castle In The Sky -- 66 Workbook Exercise 2.2: Using A 'Miyazaki Formula' To Develop Your Own Film Idea -- 68 Case Study: Peter & The Wolf -- 72 Interview With Suzie Templeton on Her Adaptation of Prokofiev's Peter & The Wolf -- 78 Case Study: Saint Thomas Becket -- 80 Chapter Summary & Further Reading -- 82 Key Words, Names & Works -- CHAPTER THREE GENRE: FROM CLASSICAL HERO TO MODERN EVERYMAN -- 86 Introduction -- 88 Space Cowboys: Genre & Context -- 92 To Infinity & Beyond: The Human Condition & Genre -- 96 Workbook Exercise 3.1: Using Genre & the Vita Activa to Develop a Film Idea -- 97 Workbook Exercise 3.2: Applying Genre & Sound to a Beat Board Animatic -- 98 Case Study: From Modern Times to WALL•E -- 102 You Kant be Serious: Comedy Genre & Theories of Humor -- 105 The Big Debate: Genre or Style? -- 108 Case Study: Domesticated -- 110 Chapter Summary & Further Reading -- 112 Key Words, Names & Works -- CHAPTER FOUR MODERNISM: THE END OF GENRE & THE METANARRATIVE -- 116 Introduction -- 118 Coffee, Steam & Tanks: Putting Modernism in Context -- 120 Space, Time & Reality: Defining Modernism -- 126 Workbook Exercise 4.1: The Kuleshov Effect—You Try -- 128 Workbook Exercise 4.2: Researching & Applying Montage to a Storyboard -- 135 From the Mundane to Murder: Other Aspects of Modernism -- 138 Case Study: Zoi -- 144 Case Study: When the Day Breaks -- 150 Workbook Exercise 4.3: Experimenting with Rotoscoping, Anthropomorphisis, Montage & Sound -- 152 Chapter Summary & Further Reading 154 Key Words, Names & Works -- CHAPTER FIVE REPRESENTATION: FACT VERSUS FICTION -- 158 Introduction -- 160 Hammering it Home: Propaganda & Socialist Realism -- 168 The Ideal Home: Advertising -- 172 Workbook Exercise 5.1: Deconstructing Advertisements & Virals -- 176 Home Sweet Home: TV Sitcom & Gaming -- 180 Workbook Exercise 5.2: Discussing Authorship & Audiences -- 188 Case Study: Make Baobab Famous -- 192 Chapter Summary & Further Reading 196 Key Words, Names & Works -- CHAPTER SIX ANIMATED DOCUMENTARY: OBJECTIVE FACT VERSUS SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE -- 200 Introduction -- 202 Feeling the Facts: From Docudrama to Animated Documentary -- 212 Case Study: Sexuality & Mental Health -- 216 Poetic Truths: Where Film & Animation Meet -- 218 Case Study: A is for Autism -- 226 Workbook Exercise 6.1: Developing Animated Documentary Techniques -- 228 Chapter Summary & Further Reading -- 230 Key Words, Names & Works -- CONCLUSION -- 232 Pulling it all together -- 234 From Animated Short to Essay Film -- 235 Cross-Disciplinary Practice -- 236 Reading as Rewriting & Intertextuality -- 237 Further Reading -- 238 Key Words, Names & Works -- By Mark Collington. Includes bibliographical references and index. Animated films Philosophy Narration (Rhetoric) NC1765 C65 2016 791.43/34 9781472578280 pucpr 151105 20210714172850.0 eng