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 -- Lolita Guevarra Electronic Marketing Coordinator University of California Press Tel. 510.643.4738 | Fax 510.643.7127 [log in to unmask] Join University of California Press eNEWS, our custom email alert service: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/emailsignup.html ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]