The University of California Press is pleased to announce the publication of:
The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney
Michael Barrier founded and edited _Funnyworld, _the first serious
magazine devoted to animation and the comics. He is the author of
_Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age_ (1999).
http://go.ucpress.edu/BarrierAnimated
"Michael Barrier's biography of Walt Disney is impressive, with a
remarkable range of interviews. I was fascinated to see this
mysterious world laid out as an industrial process-somehow, this
makes what we see on the screen even more miraculous."-Kevin
Brownlow, Director, _Cecil B De Mille: American Epic and Garbo_
Walt Disney (1901-1966) was one of the most significant creative
forces of the twentieth century, a man who made a lasting impact on
the art of the animated film, the history of American business, and
the evolution of twentieth-century American culture. He was both a
creative visionary and a dynamic entrepreneur, roles whose demands he
often could not reconcile.
In his compelling new biography, noted animation historian Michael
Barrier avoids the well-traveled paths of previous biographers, who
have tended to portray a blemish-free Disney or to indulge in lurid
speculation. Instead, he takes the full measure of the man in his
many aspects. A consummate storyteller, Barrier describes how Disney
transformed himself from Midwestern farm boy to scrambling young
businessman to pioneering artist and, finally, to entrepreneur on a
grand scale.
Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is
available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/BarrierAnimated
Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell and Kenyon
Vanessa Toulmin is Research Director, National Fairground Archive at
the University of Sheffield and a leading authority on Victorian
entertainment and film.
http://go.ucpress.edu/Toulmin
_Electric Edwardians_ presents a stunning visual record of the films
of Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon combined with an illuminating
discussion of the films and the social context of their production by
Vanessa Toulmin, a leading authority on the collection.
Advertised as "local films for local people," the films of Mitchell
and Kenyon were commissioned by traveling exhibitors in the early
twentieth century for screening in town halls, village fetes and
local fairs. Audiences paid to see their neighbors, families, and
themselves on the screen, glimpsed at work and at play.
British Film Institute books are distributed in North America and
Asia by the University of California Press.
Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is
available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/Toulmin
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