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book		Animation from script to screen / Shamus Culhane London: Columbus, 1989, c1988. Call No: 246CUL Author: Culhane, Shamus Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Columbus PubDate: 1989, c1988 PhysDes: xv, 336 p., [2] p. of plates : ill.(some col.) ; 24 cm Subject: ANIMATION; ANIMATORS; CARTOONS. USA; DIRECTORS. USA; COMPUTERIZED ANIMATION AND SPECIAL EFFECTS Summary: The book covers all areas of animation: the basic mechanics of animation, expressing creativity through animation, writing, recording, acting and dialogue in the area of animation, and finally it deals with managing an animation studio. It contains the work of 130 leading animators, worldwide. Notes: Includes index ISBN: 0862879590 More info
book		Anime : a history / by Jonathan Clements Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Call No: 772(520) CLE Author: Clements, Jonathan Source: UK Place: Basingstoke, Hampshire Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan PubDate: 2013 PhysDes: vi, 250 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm Subject: ANIMATED FILMS; ANIMATION; ANIMATION. JAPAN; ANIMATORS; CARTOONS; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HISTORY OF CINEMA. JAPAN; ASTRO BOY [TV] (JA, Noboru Ishiguro & Osamu Tezuko, 1980-1) SEE SHIN TETSUWAN ATOM [TV]; SHIN TETSUWAN ATOM [TV] (JA, Noboru Ishiguro & Osamu Tezuko, 1980-1) Summary: "Japanese animation is at the nexus of an international multimedia industry worth over $6.5 billion a year, limked to everything from manga to computer games, Pokemon and plushies. In this comprehensive guide, Jonathan Clements chronicles the production and reception history of the entire medium, from a handful of hobbyists in the 1910s to the Oscar-winning Spirirted Away and beyond." -- BOOK BLURB Notes: Published by Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute (BFI); Includes bibliography and index ISBN: 9781844573905 Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- What do we talk about when we talk about anime? -- 1: Kid Deko's New Picture Book -- Early cartoons in Japan 1912--21 -- 2: The Film Factories -- Animation technique and technology 1921--37 -- 3: The Shadow Staff -- Japanese animation at war 1931--48 -- 4: The Seeds Of Anime -- Japanese animation industries 1946--62 -- 5: Dreams Of Export -- Toei Doga and MOM Production 1953--67 -- 6.Warrior Business -- Tezuka's anime revolution in context 1961--72 -- 7: The Brown Screen -- Trended change in Japanese animation 1966--83 -- 8: The Third Medium -- The transformation of ownership and access 1977--96 -- 9: the Pokemon Shock -- Anime goes global 1984--97, 1997--2006 -- 10: The Digital Engine -- New technologies and animation 1983--2012 -- Epilogue -- The end of anime's first century -- bibliography -- index -- More info
Interim book		Cartoon and puppet films in 1963 / Oldrich Adamec (editor) and Marie Benesova (compiler) 1963. Call No: F025:F772(437)"1963" BEN CorpAuthor: Czechoslovak Film Institute PubDate: 1963 Subject: ANIMATION; CARTOONS; PUPPET PROGRAMMES More info
book		Cartoons : one hundred years of cinema animation / by Giannalberto Bendazzi ; [translated by Anna Taraboletti-Segre] Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1994. Call No: 772 BEN Author: Bendazzi, Giannalberto Place: Bloomington, Ind. Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: 1994 PhysDes: xxiii, 514 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm Subject: CARTOONS; ANIMATED FILMS; ANIMATION; ANIMATORS; DISNEY, WALT Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-456) and indexes ISBN: 0253311683 (hbk.); 0253209374 (pbk.) LON: 11082264 More info
subject clippings file		CARTOONS Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: CARTOONS More info
subject clippings file		CARTOONS. USA Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: CARTOONS. USA More info
book		The comic book film adaptation : exploring modern Hollywood's leading genre / by Liam Burke Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c2015. Call No: 753.5 BUR Author: Burke, Liam Source: US Place: Jackson Publisher: University Press of Mississippi PubDate: c2015 PhysDes: viii, 372 pages ; 24 cm Subject: ADAPTATIONS; MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT; CARTOONS; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS IN FILMS; COMIC STRIPS Summary: "In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed into Hollywood's leading genre. From superheroes to Spartan warriors, The Comic Book Film Adaptation offers the first dedicated study to examine how comic books moved from the fringes of popular culture to the center of mainstream film production. Through in-depth analysis, industry interviews, and audience research, this book charts the cause-and-effect of this influential trend. It considers the cultural traumas, business demands, and digital possibilities that Hollywood faced at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The industry managed to meet these challenges by exploiting comics and their existing audiences. However, studios were caught off-guard when these comic book fans, empowered by digital media, began to influence the success of these adaptations. Nonetheless, filmmakers soon developed strategies to take advantage of this intense fanbase, while codifying the trend into a more lucrative genre, the comic book movie, which appealed to an even wider audience. Central to this vibrant trend is a comic aesthetic in which filmmakers utilize digital filmmaking technologies to engage with the language and conventions of comics like never before.The Comic Book Film Adaptation explores this unique moment in which cinema is stimulated, challenged, and enriched by the once-dismissed medium of comics" -- LIBRARIES AUSTRALIA Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 9781628462036 Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction -- The Golden Age of Comic Book Filmmaking -- The Comic Book Movie Genre -- Fans, Fidelity, and the Grammar of Value -- A Comic Aesthetic -- How to Adapt Comics the Marvel Way -- the future of the comic book movie -- North American box-office totals for comic book film adaptations -- notes -- works cited -- index -- More info
Interim book		Czechoslovak cartoon and puppet films / Oldrich Adamec (editor) and Marie Benesova (compiler) [196?]. Call No: F025:F772(437)"1966" BEN CorpAuthor: Czechoslovak Film Institute PubDate: [196?] Subject: CZECHOSLOVAKIA; CARTOONS; ANIMATION; PUPPET PROGRAMMES Language: French, English and German More info
Interim book		Czechoslovak puppet and cartoon films 1961. Call No: F025:F772(437)"1961" CZE CorpAuthor: Czechoslovak Film Institute PubDate: 1961 Subject: CZECHOSLOVAKIA; CARTOONS; ANIMATION; PUPPET PROGRAMMES More info
book		Dreamland Japan : writings on modern manga / Frederik L. Schodt Berkeley, Calif.: Stone Bridge Press, 1996. Call No: 772(52) SCH Author: Schodt, Frederik L., 1950 Place: Berkeley, Calif. Publisher: Stone Bridge Press PubDate: 1996 PhysDes: 360 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm Subject: MANGA; ANIMATION; CARTOONS; COMIC STRIPS Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 348-356) and index ISBN: 188065623X (paper) LON: 12295069 More info
book		The encyclopedia of animated cartoon series / by Jeff Lenburg New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press, [1983], c1981. Call No: 772(73) LEN Author: Lenburg, Jeff Place: New York, N.Y. Publisher: Da Capo Press PubDate: [1983], c1981 PhysDes: 190 p. : ill. ; 31 cm Subject: ANIMATION; CARTOONS; BUGS BUNNY; FELIX THE CAT; FLINTSTONES, THE [TV] (US, 1960-65); TOM & JERRY Notes: Reprint. Originally published: Westport, Conn. : Arlington House, c1981; Includes index ISBN: 0306801914 (pbk.) : $14.95 LON: 2488867 2488867 More info
book		Footnotes to the film / edited by Charles Davy London: Lovat Dickson Ltd, Readers' Union, 1938. Call No: REFERENCE SECTION; 003 FOO Author: Davy, Charles Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Lovat Dickson Ltd; Readers' Union PubDate: 1938 PhysDes: 334 p. : ill. ; 21 cm Subject: PRODUCTION; INDUSTRY, FILM; DIRECTION; ACTING; CINEMATOGRAPHY; SCRIPTWRITING; COMEDIES; CARTOONS; COSTUMES; COSTUME DESIGNING; SET DESIGNING; SETS; ART DIRECTION; MUSIC IN FILMS; COLOUR; REALISM IN FILMS; UNITED KINGDOM; USA; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA; AUDIENCES; CRITICISM; CENSORSHIP; SOCIETIES, FILM Notes: Includes contributor biographies and index Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006 Contents: Includes essays by Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Donat, Basil Wright, Graham Greene, Alberto Cavalcanti, John Betjeman, Maurice Jaubert, Paul Nash, John Grierson, Alexander Korda, Basil Dean, Maurice Kann, Elizabeth Bowen, Sidney L. Bernstein, Alistair Cooke, Forsyth Hardy, Charles Davy More info
book		How to cartoon : for amateur films / John Halas and Bob Privett London: Focal Press, 1955. Call No: 246.1HAL Author: Halas, John; Privett, Bob Edition: 2nd ed. Source: UK Place: London Publisher: Focal Press PubDate: 1955 PhysDes: 132 p. : ill., ports. ; 19 cm Series: Focal Cinebooks Subject: CARTOONS; ART AND THE CINEMA; ANIMATED FILMS More info
book		The illusion of life : essays on animation / edited by Alan Cholodenko Sydney: Power Publications, in association with the Australian Film Commission, Sydney, 1991. Call No: 772 ILL Author: Cholodenko, Alan CorpAuthor: Power Institute of Fine Arts Place: Sydney Publisher: Power Publications, in association with the Australian Film Commission, Sydney PubDate: 1991 PhysDes: 312 p. : ill. ; 21 cm Subject: ANIMATION; CONFERENCES. AUSTRALIA. AMIMATION; CARTOONS; JONES, CHUCK; MAGIC TOYSHOP, THE (UK, David Wheatley, 1986); WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (US, Roger Zemekis, 1988); FLY, THE (US, David Cronenberg, 1986) Notes: Published by the Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney; "Based on ... The Illusion of life, the world's first international conference on animation and Australia's first large-scale international festival of animation" -- p. 9; Includes bibliographical references ISBN: 0909952183 LON: 7242798 Contents: Introduction / Alan Cholodenko -- What's up, down under? / Chuck Jones talks at THE ILLUSION OF LIFE conference -- The animation of sound / Philip Brophy -- Saturday Morning Fever / Ben Crawford -- Life-threatening life: Angela Carter and the uncanny / Robyn Ferrell -- Animation - AIDS in science/fiction / Rosalyn Diprose and Cathryn Vasseleu -- The work-shop of filty animation / Peter Hutchings -- For the noise of a fly / Lisa Trahair -- 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit', or the framing of animation / Alan Cholodenko -- PRHSTHR: The T(r)opology of pyromania / Keith Clancy -- The illusion of illusion / Keith Broadfoot and Rex Butler -- Mosaic infinity / Edward Colless and David Kelly -- Appendix More info
book		Of mice and magic : a history of American animated cartoons / Leonard Maltin / Jerry Beck New York: New American Library, c1980. Call No: 772(73) MAL Author: Maltin, Leonard Place: New York Publisher: New American Library PubDate: c1980 PhysDes: ix, 470 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm Subject: CARTOONS. USA; COLUMBIA PICTURES; WARNER BROS.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; UPA; WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS; DISNEY, WALT; VAN BEUREN STUDIOS; FLEISCHER, MAX; TERRY, PAUL; IWERKS, UB; LANTZ, WALTER Notes: Includes filmographies and index LON: 1721928 More info
book		Petty's Australia : and how it works Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1976. Call No: 932 PET Author: Petty, Bruce; Phillip, Adams Source: AT Place: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Publisher: Penguin Books PubDate: 1976 PhysDes: 1 v. (unpaged) (chiefly illus., part col.). Subject: CARTOONS; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN HISTORY (AT, Bruce Petty, 1971) Summary: "Petty's Australia is a totally original view of Australia and Australians. In his introduction to the book, Philip Adams writes: 'I believe that Bruce Petty is one of the world's finest cartoonists...This book may well be his masterpiece, for the words are as precise and as original as the drawings. It takes its place alongside books of Donald Horne, of Geoffrey Blainey, of Vance Palmer and of Humphrey McQueen, as a major work of historical and sociological analysis, whilst standing alone as an original work of art'." -BOOK BLURB Notes: Originally published in 1967 as Petty's Australia Fair. ISBN: 0140700609 More info
newspaper article		The real reason Tom and Jerry have lasted so long in Sunday Age [M] (2/08/2015) p.18 Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPING FILES Author: Byrnes, Paul PhysDes: Clippings File Article Subject: ANIMATION; HANNA-BARBERA; TOM AND JERRY [TV](US, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, 1965-1972); CARTOONS. USA; CARTOON CHARACTERS IN FILMS Summary: An article about the longevity of success of Tom and Jerry. Also, gives a brief history of the partnership of Hanna-Barbera. More info
book		Rick Trembles' motion picture purgatory / Rick Trembles Surrey: FAB Press, 2004. Call No: 62:61[741.5] TRE Author: Trembles, Rick Source: UK Place: Surrey Publisher: FAB Press PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 191 p. : 24 cm Subject: CRITICISM; CARTOONS; COMIC STRIPS AND THE CINEMA; TITANIC (US, James Cameron, 1997); POSSESSION (FR/GW, Andrzej Zulawski, 1981); NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (US, Charles Laughton, 1955); URBAN LEGEND (US, Jamie Blanks, 1998); BIG CHILL, THE (US, Lawrence Kasdan, 1983) Summary: From the pages of free weekly The Montreal Mirror comes the best of Rick Trembles’ distinctive hybrid film-review/column/comic strip Motion Picture Purgatory! A novel new form of film criticism, the medium of sequential art lends itself well to the dissection of motion pictures; frequently resembling storyboards, plotline trajectories are diagrammatically tracked via elaborate cross-sections and aerial views with an obsessive attention to detail! Trembles has developed a worldwide reputation over the years distributing his own comix and appearing in a variety of anthologies including Robert Crumb’s Weirdo, Fantagraphics’ Pictopia and Danny Hellman’s Legal Action Comix! [Taken from back cover.] ISBN: 1903254302 More info
book		The spectacular modern woman : Feminine visibility in the 1920s / Liz Conor Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2004. Call No: 451 02 "192" CON Author: Conor, Liz Edition: 1st ed. Source: USA Place: Bloomington, Indiana Publisher: Indiana University Press PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 334 p. : b+w ill. ; 23 cm Subject: WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN IN FILMS; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; WOMEN, FILMS FOR; PROSTITUTES IN FILMS; POPULAR CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; MEDIA; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; ADVERTISING; CARTOONS; CELEBRITIES IN FILMS; IMPERIALISM AND THE CINEMA; FASHION AND THE CINEMA; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA; RACIAL ISSUES AND THE CINEMA; DE BEAUVOIR, SIMONE; KELLERMAN, ANNETTE; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH; LYELL, LOTTIE; MOTH OF MOONBI, THE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1926); GIRL OF THE BUSH, A (AT, Franklyn Barrett, 1921); FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL LIFE (AT, Norman Dawn, 1927); SENTIMENTAL BLOKE, THE (AT, Raymond Longford, 1919); GREENHIDE (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1926) Summary: In The Spectacular Modern Woman, Liz Conor illustrates how technological advances in image reproduction transformed Wetter industrial societies into visual or ‘oculacentric’ cultures with significant and complex consequences for women’s lives. With the rise of mass media, Conor shows how women’s identities were intimately tied to the visual culture of the day. [Taken from back cover]. ISBN: 0253216702 More info
title clippings file		SUPERMAN: THE CARTOONS : (US, Dave Fleischer & Max Fleischer, 1982) Call No: TITLE CLIPPINGS FILE PhysDes: Clippings Subject: SUPERMAN: THE CARTOONS (US, Dave Fleischer & Max Fleischer, 1982) More info

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