Live-Action Animated Film

By (author) Kyle Meikle

ISBN13: 9781978828612

Imprint: Rutgers University Press

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 09/12/2025

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Description
Since cinema’s beginning, live actors and cartoon characters have traded places and invaded each other’s spaces, with real people getting animated and animated character getting real. The Live-Action Animated Film looks at the long history of movies that combine live action with 2D, stop-motion, and 3D animation to hallucinogenic effect. This survey suggests that the experimental and idiosyncratic mixed pics of the twentieth century set the template for the mainstream blockbusters of the twenty-first. Covering everything from Technicolor musicals and creature features to contemporary remakes and reboots, The Live-Action Animated Film brings this significant, boundary-blurring genre into sharper focus. In retrospect, the introduction of cartoons into live action looks as central to film history as the coming of sound or color.
Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Synchronization (1919-1989) Chapter 2: Integration (1989-2021) Chapter 3: Synergy (1941-2022) Conclusion Acknowledgments Further Reading Works Cited Selected Filmography Index
  • Film theory & criticism
  • Film guides & reviews
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
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