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Description
The Art of Czech Animation is the first comprehensive English language account of Czech animation from the 1920s to the present, covering both 2D animation forms and CGI, with a focus upon the stop-motion films of Jirí Trnka, Hermína Týrlová, Jan Svankmajer and Jirí Barta.
Stop-motion is a highly embodied form of animation and The Art of Czech Animation develops a new materialist approach to studying these films. Instead of imposing top-down Film Theory onto its case studies, the book's analysis is built up from close readings of the films themselves, with particular attention given to their non-human objects.
In a time of environmental crisis, the unique way Czech animated films use allegory to de-centre the human world and give a voice to non-human aspects of the natural world points us towards a means by which culture can increase ecological awareness in viewers.
Such a refutation of a human-centred view of the world was contrary to communist orthodoxy and it remains so under late-stage consumer-capitalism. As such, these films do not only offer beautiful examples of allegory, but stand as models of political dissent. The Art of Czech Animation is a unique endeavour of film philosophy to provide a materialist appraisal of a heretofore neglected strand of Central-Eastern European cinema.
Author: Adam Whybray
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 01/27/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9781350194984
ISBN10: 1350194980
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Animation (see also Film | Genres | Animated)
- Performing Arts | Film | Genres | Animated
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
Stop-motion is a highly embodied form of animation and The Art of Czech Animation develops a new materialist approach to studying these films. Instead of imposing top-down Film Theory onto its case studies, the book's analysis is built up from close readings of the films themselves, with particular attention given to their non-human objects.
In a time of environmental crisis, the unique way Czech animated films use allegory to de-centre the human world and give a voice to non-human aspects of the natural world points us towards a means by which culture can increase ecological awareness in viewers.
Such a refutation of a human-centred view of the world was contrary to communist orthodoxy and it remains so under late-stage consumer-capitalism. As such, these films do not only offer beautiful examples of allegory, but stand as models of political dissent. The Art of Czech Animation is a unique endeavour of film philosophy to provide a materialist appraisal of a heretofore neglected strand of Central-Eastern European cinema.
Author: Adam Whybray
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 01/27/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9781350194984
ISBN10: 1350194980
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Animation (see also Film | Genres | Animated)
- Performing Arts | Film | Genres | Animated
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
About the Author
Adam Whybray is Lecturer in Film at the University of Suffolk, UK.