New York's Animation Culture: Advertising, Art, Design and Film, 1939-1940

ISBN-13: 9783030279301 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 222 str.

Kristian Moen

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Chapter 1. Introduction

“New York is NOT America”

Themes of Animation

Expanded and Micro Histories

Chapter 2. The City

Fifth Avenue’s Animated Shop Windows

Artistic Motion and Commercial Motion

Douglas Leigh on Broadway

Animation, Art and Memory Value

Rockefeller Center and the Hall of Motion

Chapter 3. The World’s Fair

Walter Dorwin Teague and the Cycle of Production

Rhythm and Design

Norman Bel Geddes and Futurama

Animating Design

The Art of Motion at the Fair

Chapter 4. The Gallery

Norman McLaren and Motion Itself

Dwinell Grant: Composing Animation

Movement Between Media

Mary Ellen Bute and Kinetic Space

Chapter 5. The Cinema

Pinocchio in New York

Fantasia as a New Form of Cinema

Animated Film at the Fair

Chapter 6. Conclusion

O autorze

Kristian Moen is Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Film and Fairy Tales: The Birth of Modern Fantasy, as well as a number of other works which explore animation, fantasy, film history and modernity.

Blurb

This book reveals and explores the thriving animation culture in midtown Manhattan, the World’s Fair, art galleries and cinemas during a vibrant period of artistic, commercial and industrial activity in New York City. Alongside a detailed investigation of animated film at the time – ranging from the abstract works of Mary Ellen Bute and Norman McLaren to the exhibition practices of the Disney Studios and the New York World’s Fair – New York’s Animation Culture examines a host of other animated forms, including moving dioramas, illuminated billboards, industrial displays, gallery exhibitions, mobile murals, and shop windows. In this innovative microhistory of animation, Moen combines the study of art, culture, design and film to offer a fine-grained account of an especially lively animation culture that was seen as creating new media, expanding the cinema experience, giving expression to utopian dreams of modernity, and presenting dynamic visions of a kinetic future.