Death—the very word is resonant with emotion, imagery, and meaning. It is the ultimate life-event that all living things will eventually experience; as such, it comes as no surprise that death is often a popular theme of literature, art, games, cinema, music, and even animation. Dennis Tupicoff, world-renowned animator, writer, and producer, is an expert on the narrative application of death in animation. Take a journey with Tupicoff as he goes in-depth into the many themes, associations, and practices found in film and especially animation. Life in Death: My Animated Films 1976–2020 explores death as it relates to experience, storytelling, theory, and narrative. The examples in the very readable text are organized into three broad categories: cartoon, documentary, and hybrids of various types.
Author(s): Dennis Tupicoff
Series: The Focus Animation Series
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 228
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Author
Preface
Introduction: Animation: A Matter of Life and Death
CHAPTER 1 Cartoons of Life and Death
NOTES
CHAPTER 2 Please Don’t Bury Me (1976)
NOTES
CHAPTER 3 Dance of Death (1983)
NOTES
CHAPTER 4 The Heat, The Humidity (1999)
NOTES
CHAPTER 5 Documentaries of Life and Death
NOTES
CHAPTER 6 The Darra Dogs (1993)
NOTES
CHAPTER 7 His Mother’s Voice (1997)
NOTES
CHAPTER 8 Hybrids of Life and Death
NOTES
CHAPTER 9 Into the Dark (2001)
NOTES
CHAPTER 10 Chainsaw (2007)
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CHAPTER 11 A Photo of Me (2017)
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CHAPTER 12 Still Alive (2018)
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CHAPTER 13 The River (2020)
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CHAPTER 14 The End of the Matter
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APPENDIX 1: TEN ANIMATED FILMS BY DENNIS TUPICOFF 1976–2020
APPENDIX 2: OTHER FILMS BY DENNIS TUPICOFF (WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/CO-PRODUCER)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
