Animation In China History Aesthetics Media Sean Macdonald by Sean Macdonald instant download after payment.

By the turn of the 21st century, animation production has grown to
thousands of hours a year in the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Despite this, and unlike American blockbuster productions and the
diverse genres of Japanese anime, much animation from the PRC remains
relatively unknown.
This book is an historical and
theoretical study of animation in the PRC. Although the Wan Brothers
produced the first feature length animated film in 1941, the industry as
we know it today truly began in the 1950s at the Shanghai Animation
Film Studio (SAFS), which remained the sole animation studio until the
1980s. Considering animation in China as a convergence of the
institutions of education, fine arts, literature, popular culture, and
film, the book takes comparative approaches that link SAFS animation to
contemporary cultural production including American and Japanese
animation, Pop Art, and mass media theory. Through readings of classic
films such asPrincess Iron Fan,Uproar in Heaven,Princess Peacock, andNezha Conquers the Dragon King, this study represents a revisionist history of animation in the PRC as a form of "postmodernism with Chinese characteristics."
As a theoretical exploration of animation in the People's Republic of China, this bookwill
appeal greatly to students and scholars of animation, film studies,
Chinese studies, cultural studies, political and cultural theory.