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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781350194984 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
791.4334094371 |
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WHY |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Whybray, Adam |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Art of Czech animation : a history of political dissent and allegory |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Bloomsbury Academic, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2022 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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xii, 290 p. ; |
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ill., (b & w) |
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23 cm |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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28.99 |
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GBP |
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104.20 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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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 Švankmajer 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. |
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motion pictures |
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Animated films |
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Animated films Political aspects |
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Cinematography |
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Trinka |
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Post-communism |
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Non-human object |
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Svankumajer |
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Books |