The Crafty Animator: Handmade, Craft-based Animation and Cultural Value
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- Total Page Count: 235
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The Crafty Animator: Handmade, Craft-based Animation and Cultural Value
The Crafty Animator brings together scholarly essays on handmade, craft-based animation and the cultural value attached to it. This digital PDF edition is available for instant download after purchase.
Edited by Caroline Ruddell and Paul Ward, the collection draws on animation studies, film theory, and art practice to consider why handmade animation matters today.
Book Overview
The Crafty Animator is an edited volume in the Palgrave Animation series. It addresses the cultural value of craft-based and handmade forms of animation, from stop-motion and puppetry to experimental techniques. Contributors include scholars and practitioners affiliated with UK institutions such as Brunel University London, the Arts University Bournemouth, King’s College London, and the University of Brighton.
What You’ll Discover Inside
- An introduction by Caroline Ruddell and Paul Ward on craft and cultural value in animation.
- Birgitta Hosea’s chapter on the idea of work made by hand.
- Lilly Husbands on craft as critique in experimental animation.
- A study of Lotte Reiniger as a crafty animator and her cultural value.
- Carla MacKinnon on autobiography and authenticity in stop-motion animation.
- Ewan Kirkland on handmade aesthetics in animation for adults and children.
- A Q&A; with animator Eric Dyer, illustrated with images from his films.
Why This Book Matters
This collection contributes to the growing field of animation studies by focusing on handmade and craft-based practices. It offers historical and theoretical perspectives on animation as both art form and cultural production. Its case studies range from Lotte Reiniger’s silhouette films to Christopher Holliday’s analysis of A Computer Animated Hand and Alexander Sergeant’s work on the puppet in special effects reception.
Book Details
| Editors | Caroline Ruddell and Paul Ward |
|---|---|
| Title | The Crafty Animator: Handmade, Craft-based Animation and Cultural Value |
| Series | Palgrave Animation |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Publication Year | 2019 |
| Format | |
| File Size | 5.0 MB |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 235 |
| ISBN-13 (Print) | 978-3-030-13942-1 |
| ISBN-13 (eBook) | 978-3-030-13943-8 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13943-8 |
| LCCN | 2019932116 |
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Download The Crafty Animator today to explore handmade animation and its cultural value.
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