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Zusatztext Formenti's research is extensive and she captures the evolution of how the animated documentary has developed in its classic and contemporary forms, thus managing to focus on topics, texts and authors in a coherent and profound way … this is an original text of great cultural and historical value, rich in content and perspectives. Informationen zum Autor Cristina Formenti is Assistant Professor in Film Studies at University of Udine, Italy. She is author of Il mockumentary: la fiction si maschera da documentario (2013), and editor of Mariangela Melato tra cinema, teatro e televisione (2016) and Valentina Cortese: un’attrice intermediale (2019). Her work has appeared in various national and international journals, such as Studies in Documentary Film , Alphaville, and Horror Studies . Dr. Formenti is also the co-editor of the journal Animation Studies and of the Bloomsbury series Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers and currently serves as President of the Society for Animation Studies.Addresses the evolutions undergone by the animated documentary throughout the decades, in order to re-position it within a broader historical and theoretical context. Zusammenfassung The Classical Animated Documentary and Its Contemporary Evolution is the first book to provide an historical insight into the animated documentary. Drawing on archival research and textual analysis, it shows how this form, usually believed to be strictly contemporaneous, instead took shape in the 1940s. Cristina Formenti integrates a theoretical and a historical approach in order to shed new light on the animated documentary as a form as well as on the work of renowned studios such as The Walt Disney Studios, Halas & Batchelor, National Film Board of Canada and never before addressed ones, such as Corona Cinematografica. She also highlights the differences and the similarities existing among the animated documentaries created between the 1940s and the mid-1980s and those produced today so as to demonstrate how the latter do not represent a complete otherness in respect to the former, but rather an evolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Theoretical and Historical Issues 1. Reality’s Two Animated Faces 2. The Sincerest Form of Docudrama3. A New Periodization for an Old Form Part II: The Rise and Affirmation of an Audiovisual Form 4. The Age of the Origins, 1909-395. The Classical Age, 1940-856. The United States7. Great Britain8. Canada9. Italy Part III: The Contemporary Production, 1986 and Beyond 10. Private Truths and Inner Realities11. The Persistence of the Classical Animated DocumentaryConclusion: Towards a Post-Animated Documentary Age? NotesReferencesIndex ...
