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

by Kristian Moen (Author)

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

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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.

Author Biography

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.