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Luminos is the Open Access monograph publishing program from UC Press. Luminos provides a framework for preserving and reinvigorating monograph publishing for the future and i ncreases the reach and visibility of important scholarly work. Titles published in the UC Press Luminos model are published with the same high standards for selection, peer review, production, and marketing as those in our traditional program. www.luminosoa.org Frame by Frame The publisher and the University of California Press Foundation gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Ahmanson • Murphy Imprint in Fine Arts. The publisher also gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Department of Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and, at the University of Chicago, the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, the Division of the Humanities, and Yuri Tsivian. Frame by Frame A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons Hannah Frank Edited and with an introduction by Daniel Morgan Foreword by Tom Gunning UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, visit www.ucpress.edu. University of California Press Oakland, California © 2019 by Hannah Frank Suggested citation: Frank, H. Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.65 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA license. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Frank, Hannah, 1984–2017, author. | Morgan, Daniel, 1977- editor, writer of introduction. | Gunning, Tom, 1949- writer of foreword. Title: Frame by frame : a materialist aesthetics of animated cartoons / Hannah Frank ; edited and with an introduction by Daniel Morgan; foreword by Tom Gunning. Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA license. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2018044521 (print) | LCCN 2018048471 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520972773 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520303621 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Animated films—History and criticism. | Motion pictures—Aesthetics. Classification: LCC NC1765 (ebook) | LCC NC1765 .F65 2019 (print) | DDC 791.43/3409—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018044521 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 FOR MY FAMILY IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER Apparently he had examined them patiently picture by picture and imagined that they would be screened in the same way, failing at that time to grasp the principle of the cinematograph. —Flann O’Brien Contents List of Illustrations ix Foreword: Hannah Frank’s Pause by Tom Gunning xi Editor’s Introduction by Daniel Morgan xix Acknowledgments xlix Introduction: Looking at Labor 1 1. Animation and Montage; or, Photographic Records of Documents 13 2. A View of the World: Toward a Photographic Theory of Cel Animation 44 3. Pars Pro Toto: Character Animation and the Work of the Anonymous Artist 74 4. The Multiplication of Traces: Xerographic Reproduction and One Hundred and One Dalmatians 108 Conclusion: The Labor of Looking 144 Notes 157 Bibliography 189 Index 207 vii

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