British animation : the Channel 4 factor
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British animation : the Channel 4 factor
Indiana University Press, c2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237) and index
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Clare Kitson celebrates one of the most creative sources of broadcast animation-Britain's pioneering Channel 4, winner of three Academy Awards for animation. In the 1980s and 1990s, Channel 4 flourished as a world champion of televised animation. The channel regularly showcased both British and international works, set up the Animate initiative with the Arts Council of England, and backed the animator-in-residence program hosted by the British Film Institute's Museum of the Moving Image. It commissioned innovative, challenging, left-of-center short films by artists such as the Brothers Quay and Ruth Lingford. Kitson, who served as Channel 4's commissioning editor from 1989 until 1999, helped foster the channel's growing reputation as a broadcasting powerhouse. In British Animation she takes a fond look back at this exceptional era.
Table of Contents
Contents Introduction 1. Animation and TV 2. Before C4 3. The new channel 4. Uncharted territory 5. Animation gains a foothold 6. Four-Mations 7. Missionary zeal... 8. ... And pragmatism Some key works 1982 to 2006: The Snowman The Victor When the Wind Blows Street of Crocodiles The Black Dog Alice Girls Night Out Feet of Song Lip Synch: War Story Lip Synch:Creature Comforts Deadtime Stories for Big Folk: Deadsy and Door Secret Joy of Falling Angels A Is for Autism Screen Play The Mill Bob's Birthday The Sound of Music The Village Abductees Crapston Villas Many Happy Returns Pond Life Death and the Mother Silence The Man with the Beautiful Eyes Home Road Movies City Paradise Rabbit Peter and the Wolf 9. Changing contexts 10. Animation on the slide 11. Young blood 12. A future? Notes Bibliography Index
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