Bøker utgitt av John Libbey & Co

Covers the early history of the film industry from the perspective of W K L Dickson's career. This book also offers a window on Thomas Edison from a different perspective.

An examination of the aesthetics of animation in its many forms. This book overviews the relationship between animation studies and media studies on a larger scale, then focuses on specific aesthetic issues concerning flat and dimensional animation, full and limited animation, and new technologies.

What do we mean by the term "animation" when we are discussing film? Is it a technique? A style? A way of seeing or experiencing "a world" that has little relation to our own lived experience of "the world"? In Animated Worlds, contributors reveal the astonishing variety of "worlds" animation confronts us with. Essays range from close film analyses to phenomenological and cognitive approaches, spectatorship, performance, literary theory, and digital aesthetics. Authors include Vivian Sobchack, Richard Weihe, Thomas Lamarre, Paul Wells, and Karin Wehn.

Explores the issue of film distribution from the invention of cinema into the 1910s. This collection of essays discusses the question of how films came to meet their audiences.

Presents a comprehensive introduction to the animation industry.

Genetic studies of the epilepsies are essential for clinical diagnosis, family counselling and as a critical route to understanding the basic biology of epilepsies at a molecular level. The focal epilepsies have been traditionally regarded as predominantly acquired disorders. This perception has now changed and there has been an explosion of interest in inherited forms of focal epilepsy that are emerging as being surprisingly common. This book describes the clinical features of the enlarging group of familial focal epilepsies and highlights recent molecular biological knowledge in understanding these disorders.

Davis argues that it is within the most constructed of all moving images of the female form-the heroine of the animated film-that the most telling aspects of Woman as the subject of Hollywood iconography and cultural ideas of American womanhood are to be found.

Ever wonder why Estonian animation features so many carrots or why cows often perform pyramids? Well, neither question is answered in Chris RobinsonΓÇÖs new book, Estonian Animation. RobinsonΓÇÖs frank, humorous, and thoroughly researched book traces the history of EstoniaΓÇÖs acclaimed animation scene from early experiments in the 1930s to the creation of puppet (Nukufilm) and cel (Joonisfilm) animation studios during the Soviet era, as well as EstoniaΓÇÖs surprising international success during the post-Soviet era. In addition, Robinson writes about the discovery of films by four 1960s animation pioneers who, until the release of this book, had been unknown to most Estonian and international animation historians.

Music and sound have become a recognised aspect of film production and film studies. This book is a contribution to the work in this field and is targeted at both cinema studies readers and film music students and aficionados. It comprises a diverse collection of essays on aspects of music, sound and Science Fiction cinema.