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The Art of Czech Animation is the first comprehensive English language account of Czech animation from the 1920s to the present, covering both 2D animation forms and CGI, with a focus upon the stop-motion films of Jirí Trnka, Hermína Týrlová, Jan Švankmajer and Jirí Barta.Stop-motion is a highly embodied form of animation and The Art of Czech Animation develops a new materialist approach to studying these films. Instead of imposing top-down Film Theory onto its case studies, the book's analysis is built up from close readings of the films themselves, with particular attention given to their non-human objects.In a time of environmental crisis, the unique way Czech animated films use allegory to de-centre the human world and give a voice to non-human aspects of the natural world points us towards a means by which culture can increase ecological awareness in viewers.Such a refutation of a human-centred view of the world was contrary to communist orthodoxy and it remains so under late-stage consumer-capitalism. As such, these films do not only offer beautiful examples of allegory, but stand as models of political dissent. The Art of Czech Animation is a unique endeavour of film philosophy to provide a materialist appraisal of a heretofore neglected strand of Central-Eastern European cinema.

Animated films --- Stop-motion animation films --- Animals in motion pictures --- Nature in motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects --- Films d'animation

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"Adaptation littéraire et courts métrages d'animation souhaite évoquer le flux, la perte, l'équilibre et le déséquilibre, en un mot une complexité, celle des rapports, des affinités électives, entre l'image mobile et le texte figé, sur un terrain mouvant où se rejoignent cinéma et littérature, et dont les méandres semblent avoir été bien traversés. Cet ouvrage, fruit d'une journée d'études (2017) et d'un colloque international (2018) tenus sous l'impulsion du CELEC de l'Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne et en collaboration avec le Festival Ciné Court Animé de Roanne, propose, à travers des approches à la fois divergentes et convergentes, d'explorer, de réexplorer les différents aspects des liens entre image et texte en se penchant spécifiquement sur le formidable espace ouvert par le court métrage d'animation."--Page 4 of cover.

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