New York's Animation Culture

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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.
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.
Approaches animation history in a novel way, through the lens of microhistory Develops the idea of ‘animation culture’ to illuminate animation history Investigates the transformative impact of animation on visual culture Offers an innovative account of expanded animation which embraces different media and arts

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Kristian Moen

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Animation History Animated Film Pervasive Animation Expanded Animation Abstract Animation Animated Advertising Animation and Culture New York’s Visual Culture

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“Moen offers a meticulously and inventively researched account of the expanded place of animation in New York in two crucial years and across four intersecting spheres of activity. Animation here still incorporates familiar cel animation techniques, but also expands far beyond them. This book is an exciting and valuable addition to our understanding of animation, historically and theoretically, but it will also have considerable wider appeal to anyone interested in mid-century visual culture.” (Malcolm Cook, Lecturer in Film, University of Southampton. Author of Early British Animation: From Page and Stage to Cinema Screens)
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