Cartoon Vision: UPA Animation and Postwar Aesthetics
Dan Bashara
ISBN 10: 0520298136 ISBN 13: 9780520298132
Published by University of California Press, 2019
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In Cartoon Vision Dan Bashara examines American animation alongside the modern design boom of the postwar era. Focusing especially on United Productions of America (UPA), a studio whose graphic, abstract style defined the postwar period, Bashara considers animation akin to a laboratory, exploring new models of vision and space alongside theorists and practitioners in other fields. The links—theoretical, historical, and aesthetic—between animators, architects, designers, artists, and filmmakers reveal a specific midcentury modernism that rigorously reimagined the senses. Cartoon Vision invokes the American Bauhaus legacy of László Moholy-Nagy and György Kepes and advocates for animation’s pivotal role in a utopian design project of retraining the public’s vision to better apprehend a rapidly changing modern world.
About the Author: Dan Bashara is an instructor of cinema and media studies at DePaul University.
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Title: Cartoon Vision: UPA Animation and Postwar ...
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New