{"product_id":"aardman-animations-beyond-stop-motion-paperback","title":"Aardman Animations: Beyond Stop-Motion - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnnabelle Honess Roe\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Bristol-based animation company Aardman is best known for its most famous creations Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. But despite the quintessentially British aesthetic and tone of its movies, this very British studio continues to enjoy international box office success with movies such as \u003ci\u003eShaun the Sheep Movie, Flushed Away\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit.\u003c\/i\u003e Aardman has always been closely linked with one of its key animators, Nick Park, and its stop motion, Plasticine-modelled family films, but it has more recently begun to experiment with modern digital filmmaking effects that either emulate 'Claymation' methods or form a hybrid animation style. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis unique volume brings together leading film and animation scholars with children's media\/animation professionals to explore the production practices behind Aardman's creativity, its history from its early shorts to contemporary hits, how its films fit within traditions of British animation, social realism and fantasy cinema, the key personalities who have formed its ethos, its representations of 'British-ness' on screen and the implications of traditional animation methods in a digital era.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnnabelle Honess Roe \u003c\/b\u003eis Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Surrey, UK. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAnimated Documentary (\u003c\/i\u003e2013) which won the 2015 Society for Animation Studies McLaren-Lambart Award for Best Book. She is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eVocal Projections: Voices in Documentary \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury, 2018) and \u003ci\u003eThe Animation Studies Reader \u003c\/i\u003e(Bloomsbury, 2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 29, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42709468381247,"sku":"9781350194946","price":92.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/6d5d33638deec057f93430c5b613f5da.webp?v=1765051539","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/aardman-animations-beyond-stop-motion-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}