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Institut für Amerikastudien Institut für Amerikastudien

Mag. Dr. Erwin Feyersinger Mag. Dr. Erwin Feyersinger

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A History of American Animated Movies

PS 2

3,5

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Englisch

We will start our exploration with early instances of animated pictures in the 19th century. Why did a few men invest a lot of time and effort to bestow inanimate drawings and objects with life? We will examine these early achievements and many more that followed. The course will cover early short films of the 1910s and 1920s (“Gertie the Dinosaur”, “Felix the Cat”, “Koko the Clown”), the Golden Age of Animation in the 1930s and 1940s (Warner Brothers, Disney, MGM), experimental and independent animation (throughout the last 100 years), animation on television (limited animation like “The Flintstones”, commercials for toys like “He-Man”), the revival of animation (initiated in 1987 by “The Simpsons” and in 1988 by “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”), computer generated animation (Pixar), animation in live action films (“King Kong”, “Jason and the Argonauts”, “Jurassic Park”, and almost every contemporary blockbuster), and animation on the Internet (Flash Animation). Throughout the course we will regard animation both as genre and as technique.

Lecture inputs, presentations, discussion.

Active participation, presentation, research paper (10–15 pages).

Students must have passed the "Introduction to American Literature and Culture" to attend this course. Credit for PS American Culture or Film and Media Studies
Beginn: 12.3.2009