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Lotte Reiniger : pioneer of film animation
\"As the result of her gender, her German ethnicity, World War II and a lack of funding--Lotte Reiniger became a footnote in animation history. Yet her 60-plus films plainly show her skill and dedication to her craft. This detailed account of her life and work describes her contributions to animation, puppetry, Weimar cinema and modern filmmaking\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Drawing the Line
Some of the most beloved characters in film and television inhabit two-dimensional worlds that spring from the fertile imaginations of talented animators. The movements, characterizations, and settings in the best animated films are as vivid as any live action film, and sometimes seem more alive than life itself. In this case, Hollywood's marketing slogans are fitting; animated stories are frequently magical, leaving memories of happy endings in young and old alike. However, the fantasy lands animators create bear little resemblance to the conditions under which these artists work. Anonymous animators routinely toiled in dark, cramped working environments for long hours and low pay, especially at the emergence of the art form early in the twentieth century. In Drawing the Line, veteran animator Tom Sito chronicles the efforts of generations of working men and women artists who have struggled to create a stable standard of living that is as secure as the worlds their characters inhabit. The former president of America's largest animation union, Sito offers a unique insider's account of animators' struggles with legendary studio kingpins such as Jack Warner and Walt Disney, and their more recent battles with Michael Eisner and other Hollywood players. Based on numerous archival documents, personal interviews, and his own experiences, Sito's history of animation unions is both carefully analytical and deeply personal. Drawing the Line stands as a vital corrective to this field of Hollywood history and is an important look at the animation industry's past, present, and future. Like most elements of the modern commercial media system, animation is rapidly being changed by the forces of globalization and technological innovation. Yet even as pixels replace pencils and bytes replace paints, the working relationship between employer and employee essentially remains the same. In Drawing the Line, Sito challenges the next wave of animators to heed the lessons of their predecessors by organizing and acting collectively to fight against the enormous pressures of the marketplace for their class interests -- and for the betterment of their art form.
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Mary Blair's unique flair : the girl who became one of the Disney Legends
\"Young Mary Browne Robinson loved color, even her name had a color in it. All she wanted to do was to make art. But becoming an artist wasn't an easy. Her parents worked hard to provide her paper and paints, and Mary worked hard to enter contests and earn a spot at a school for the arts. She even had to work hard to find her place at the Walt Disney Studios. But Walt was easily impressed by Mary Blair. When she joined his trip to South America, Mary had never seen such color. She collected that color and used it in her concept art for Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan, and even the It's a Small World attraction at Disneyland. This beautifully illustrated picture book shares Mary's story, in all its inspiring flair\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Walt's imagination : the life of Walt Disney
A picture-book biography that introduces the life and career of Walt Disney.
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1619 Is Streaming; Dilbert Is Stricken
The once-celebrated Dilbert comic strip no longer appears in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, one of hundreds of newspapers that dropped the strip after its creator, Scott Adams, described Black Americans as a hate group and added that white people should \"get the hell away\" from them. Hussman, whose name went up on UNC's journalism school after he and his family pledged $20 million to the university, discussed the 1619 Project and Hannah Jones' case with Arkansas Business not long before his daughter took over as Wehco publisher. Hussman expressed his objections to university officials, and the blowback led to criticism of his own views, and suggestions that he was applying inappropriate influence as the name benefactor of the UNC Hussman School of Journalism & Media.
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Who was Walt Disney?
\"Walt Disney always loved to entertain people. Often it got him into trouble. Once he painted pictures with tar on the side of his family's white house. His family was poor, and the happiest time of his childhood was spent living on a farm in Missouri. His affection for small-town life is reflected in Disneyland Main Streets around the world.\"--Amazon.com.
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They Called Him … Buckaroo Sam: The Imagined Life of a Chinese Cowboy
“They Called Him . . . Buckaroo Sam” features the life of a Chinese pioneer in
Grant County, northeastern Oregon. His story dispels misconceptions that often
permeate history of Chinese pioneers in America. It is not generally known, for
example, that there were Chinese cowboys, or vaqueros and wranglers, in the
American West. While it is indisputable that they would have faced racial
prejudice, discrimination, and persecution, racial harmony nevertheless
prevailed for Buckaroo Sam and his contemporaries in this mining region of
Oregon. For several years, he worked on the Stewart Ranch before becoming ranch
foreman at the Harve Fields Ranch, one of the earliest ranches that employed an
all-Chinese crew in the John Day Valley. Using a graphic medium, Dale Hom
imagines and conveys this cowboy’s lifestyle and circumstances, expanding the
conventional view of Chinese pioneers on the western frontier.
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