Frame by Frame

A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons

Hannah Frank, Daniel Morgan, Tom Gunning

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English

University of California Press
07 May 2019

Animated movies & films

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In this beautifully written and deeply researched study, Hannah Frank provides an original way to understand American animated cartoons from the Golden Age of animation (1920–1960). In the pre-digital age of the twentieth century, the making of cartoons was mechanized and standardized: thousands of drawings were inked and painted onto individual transparent celluloid sheets (called “cels”) and then photographed in succession, a labor-intensive process that was divided across scores of artists and technicians. In order to see the art, labor, and technology of cel animation, Frank slows cartoons down to look frame by frame, finding hitherto unseen aspects of the animated image. What emerges is both a methodology and a highly original account of an art formed on the assembly line.

By: Hannah Frank
Foreword by: Tom Gunning
Edited by: Daniel Morgan
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780520303621
ISBN 10: 0520303628
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 07 May 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Foreword: Hannah Frank’s Pause by Tom Gunning Editor’s Introduction by Daniel Morgan Acknowledgments Introduction: Looking at Labor 1. Animation and Montage; or, Photographic Records of Documents 2. A View of the World: Toward a Photographic Theory of Cel Animation 3. Pars Pro Toto: Character Animation and the Work of the Anonymous Artist 4. The Multiplication of Traces: Xerographic Reproduction and One Hundred and One Dalmatians Conclusion: The Labor of Looking Notes Bibliography Index

Hannah Frank (1984–2017) was Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her work has been published in Critical Quarterly and Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and she contributed a chapter to A World Redrawn: Eisenstein and Brecht in Hollywood. Daniel Morgan is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago and is author of Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema.

Reviews for Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons

After reading Frame by Frame, it's difficult to naively or passively watch a classic-era cartoon again, considering the erased labor that was alienated and mechanized, yet individuated-ultimately producing an artwork. Frank impressively ties together the imaginative pleasures of close analysis to rethink the trajectory of animation as more than a 'history of drudgery.' * Film Comment * It's not every day that a posthumously published Ph.D. thesis nudges the world of cinema studies off its axis. All hail Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons. * Artforum *