100 Animated Feature Films
Revised Edition
2nd Edition
Published on 14. July 2022
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-1-83902-441-2 (ISBN)
Description
20 years ago, animated features were widely perceived as cartoons for children. Today they encompass an astonishing range of films, styles and techniques. There is the powerful adult drama of Waltz with Bashir; the Gallic sophistication of Belleville Rendez-Vous; the eye-popping violence of Japan's Akira; and the stop-motion whimsy of Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Andrew Osmond provides an entertaining and illuminating guide to the endlessly diverse world of animated features, with entries on 100 of the most interesting and important animated films from around the world, from the 1920s to the present day.
Blending in-depth history and criticism, 100 Animated Feature Films balances the blockbusters with local success stories from Eastern Europe to Hong Kong. This revised and updated new edition addresses films that have been released since publication of the first edition, such as the mainstream hits Frozen, The Lego Movie and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, as well as updated entries on franchises such as the Toy Story movies. It also covers bittersweet indie visions such as Michael Dudok de Wit's The Red Turtle, Charlie Kaufman's Anomalisa, Isao Takahata's Tale of the Princess Kaguya, the family saga The Wolf Children and the popular blockbuster Your Name. Osmond's wide-ranging selection also takes in the Irish fantasy Song of the Sea, France's I Lost My Body and Brazil's Boy and the World. Osmond's authoritative and entertaining entries combine with a contextualising introduction and key filmographic information to provide an essential guide to animated film.
Blending in-depth history and criticism, 100 Animated Feature Films balances the blockbusters with local success stories from Eastern Europe to Hong Kong. This revised and updated new edition addresses films that have been released since publication of the first edition, such as the mainstream hits Frozen, The Lego Movie and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, as well as updated entries on franchises such as the Toy Story movies. It also covers bittersweet indie visions such as Michael Dudok de Wit's The Red Turtle, Charlie Kaufman's Anomalisa, Isao Takahata's Tale of the Princess Kaguya, the family saga The Wolf Children and the popular blockbuster Your Name. Osmond's wide-ranging selection also takes in the Irish fantasy Song of the Sea, France's I Lost My Body and Brazil's Boy and the World. Osmond's authoritative and entertaining entries combine with a contextualising introduction and key filmographic information to provide an essential guide to animated film.
Reviews / Votes
Osmond's reviews are thoughtful, engaging reveries not only of each film, but of its context and gossip ... Osmond cops to personal bias in his introduction, but his personal bias is partly what we are paying for - we trust him to come up with a hundred cartoons that can fairly encapsulate the medium as it appears today, such that someone who knew nothing could watch a film a day and become an animation expert in just three months. -- Jonathan Clements * All the Anime * What makes this sampling of animated feature films unique and worthwhile is its range. Some excellent yet not well-known gems are included alongside the expected classics. Animated cinema is a worldwide art form and this book takes us on a well-written, very insightful tour. -- Walter Santucci, Chapman University, USAMore details
Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
70 colour and bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 200 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
676 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83902-441-2 (9781839024412)
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Person
Andrew Osmond is a journalist and critic based in Berkshire, UK. He is the author of Spirited Away (BFI Film Classics, 2008, 2020), Kon: The Illusionist (2009) and Ghost in the Shell (2017). He has co-written two books with Jonathan Clements on two key Japanese animated films, Hakujaden and The Little Norse Prince. He was one of two main editors working for Giannalberto Bendazzi on his three-volume Animation: A World History, published in 2016. He frequently contributes to Sight & Sound magazine, SFX and Empire, as well as numerous other magazines in the UK, France and America. He writes regularly for Neo magazine and for the commercial blog All The Anime, which both specialise in Japanese animation. He has also had pieces on animation published in the Guardian.
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1.The Adventures of Prince Achmed
2.Akira
3.Aladdin
4.Alice
5.Allegro non troppo
6.Animal Farm
7.Anomolisa
8.April and the Extraordinary World
9.Bambi
10.Beauty and the Beast
11.Belladonna of Sadness
12.Belleville Rendez-vous
13.Boy and the World
14.The Breadwinner
15.Cinderella
16.Coco
17.The Congress
18.Coraline
19.Dumbo
20.Fantasia
21.Fantastic Planet
22.Finding Nemo
23.Fritz the Cat
24.Frozen
25.The Garden of Words
26.Ghost in the Shell
27.Grave of the Fireflies
28.Hoppity Goes to Town
29.How To Train Your Dragon
30.I Lost My Body
31.Ice Age
32.Idiots and Angels
33.The Illusionist
34.The Incredibles
35.Inside Out
36.Invention for Destruction
37.The Iron Giant
38.Ivan and His Magic Pony
39.The Jungle Book
40.The King and the Mockingbird
41.Kiki's Delivery Service
42.Klaus
43.Kung Fu Panda
44.Laputa: Castle in the Sky
45.The Lego Movie
46.Lilo and Stitch
47.The Lion King
48.The Little Mermaid
49.Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
50.A Midsummer Night's Dream
51.Mind Game
52.Moana
53.Monsters Inc
54.My Life as McDull
55.My Neighbour Totoro
56.Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
57.Nezha Conquers the Dragon King
58.Night on the Galactic Railroad
59.The Nightmare Before Christmas
60.One Hundred and One Dalamatians
61.Only Yesterday
62.Perfect Blue
63.Persepolis
64.Pinocchio
65.Porco Rosso
66.Princess Mononoke
67.Rango
68.The Red Turtle
69.Rocks in My Pockets
70.Le Roman de Renard
71.The Secret of NIMH
72.Shrek
73.A Silent Voice
74.Sita Sings the Blues
75.The Snow Queen
76.Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
77.Son of White Mare
78.Song of the Sea
79.Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse
80.Spirited Away
81.Summer Wars
82.The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
83.The Thief and the Cobbler
84.Tokyo Godfathers
85.Tower
86.Toy Story
87.Toys in the Attic
88.Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
89.Wall-E
90.Waltz with Bashir
91.Watership Down
92.When Marnie was There
93.Whisper of the Heart
94.Who Framed Roger Rabbit
95.The Wolf Children
96.Wolfwalkers
97.Wreck-it Ralph
98.Yellow Submarine
99.Your Name
100.Zootropolis
Introduction
1.The Adventures of Prince Achmed
2.Akira
3.Aladdin
4.Alice
5.Allegro non troppo
6.Animal Farm
7.Anomolisa
8.April and the Extraordinary World
9.Bambi
10.Beauty and the Beast
11.Belladonna of Sadness
12.Belleville Rendez-vous
13.Boy and the World
14.The Breadwinner
15.Cinderella
16.Coco
17.The Congress
18.Coraline
19.Dumbo
20.Fantasia
21.Fantastic Planet
22.Finding Nemo
23.Fritz the Cat
24.Frozen
25.The Garden of Words
26.Ghost in the Shell
27.Grave of the Fireflies
28.Hoppity Goes to Town
29.How To Train Your Dragon
30.I Lost My Body
31.Ice Age
32.Idiots and Angels
33.The Illusionist
34.The Incredibles
35.Inside Out
36.Invention for Destruction
37.The Iron Giant
38.Ivan and His Magic Pony
39.The Jungle Book
40.The King and the Mockingbird
41.Kiki's Delivery Service
42.Klaus
43.Kung Fu Panda
44.Laputa: Castle in the Sky
45.The Lego Movie
46.Lilo and Stitch
47.The Lion King
48.The Little Mermaid
49.Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
50.A Midsummer Night's Dream
51.Mind Game
52.Moana
53.Monsters Inc
54.My Life as McDull
55.My Neighbour Totoro
56.Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
57.Nezha Conquers the Dragon King
58.Night on the Galactic Railroad
59.The Nightmare Before Christmas
60.One Hundred and One Dalamatians
61.Only Yesterday
62.Perfect Blue
63.Persepolis
64.Pinocchio
65.Porco Rosso
66.Princess Mononoke
67.Rango
68.The Red Turtle
69.Rocks in My Pockets
70.Le Roman de Renard
71.The Secret of NIMH
72.Shrek
73.A Silent Voice
74.Sita Sings the Blues
75.The Snow Queen
76.Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
77.Son of White Mare
78.Song of the Sea
79.Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse
80.Spirited Away
81.Summer Wars
82.The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
83.The Thief and the Cobbler
84.Tokyo Godfathers
85.Tower
86.Toy Story
87.Toys in the Attic
88.Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
89.Wall-E
90.Waltz with Bashir
91.Watership Down
92.When Marnie was There
93.Whisper of the Heart
94.Who Framed Roger Rabbit
95.The Wolf Children
96.Wolfwalkers
97.Wreck-it Ralph
98.Yellow Submarine
99.Your Name
100.Zootropolis