Hand-Made Television: Stop-Frame Animation for Children in Britain, 1961-1974

ISBN-13: 9781137551627 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 132 str.

Rachel Moseley

Opis

This book explores the ongoing enchantment of much-loved stop-frame children's television programming of the 1960s and 1970s. Hand-Made Television analyses programmes in the social and historical contexts of their production, examining the power of their hand-made aesthetics and relationship to the world of children's play.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Chapter One: Contexts
2. Chapter Two: The Pastoral Past
3. Chapter Three: The Hand-Made
4. Chapter Four: Magic and Movement
Notes
Bibliography
Teleography
Filmography

O autorze

Rachel Moseley is Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies, and Director of the Centre for Television History, Heritage and Memory Research at the University of Warwick. She has published widely on popular television and film.

Blurb

Hand-Made Television explores the ongoing enchantment of many of the much-loved stop-frame children's television programmes of 1960s and 1970s Britain. The first academic work to analyse programmes such as Pogles' Wood (1966), Clangers (1969), Bagpuss (1974) (Smallfilms) and Gordon Murray's Camberwick Green (1966), Trumpton (1967) and Chigley (1969), the book connects these series to their social and historical contexts while providing in-depth analyses of their themes and hand-made aesthetics. Hand-Made Television shows that the appeal of these programmes is rooted not only in their participatory address and evocation of a pastoral English past, but also in the connection of their stop-frame aesthetics to the actions of childhood play. This book makes a significant contribution to both Animation Studies and Television Studies; combining scholarly rigour with an accessible style, it is suitable for scholars as well as fans of these iconic British children's programmes.