100 ANIMATED FEATURE FILMS

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Andrew Osmond is a freelance journalist based in Berkshire UK. He writes for a range of highprofile film magazines including Sight & Sound Empire and SFX.A new edition of a BFI Screen Guide on animated feature films with 35 new entries and a revised and updated IntroductionIllustrated in colour with stills from the films discussedAuthor is an acknowledged expert who writes for mainstream publications as well as specialist magazines and websitesAndrew Osmond is a journalist and critic based in Berkshire UK. He is the author of Spirited Away (BFI Film Classics 2008 2020) Kon: The Illusionist (2009) and Ghost in the Shell (2017). He has cowritten two books with Jonathan Clements on two key Japanese animated films Hakujaden and The Little Norse Prince. He was one of two main editors working for Giannalberto Bendazzi on his threevolume Animation: A World History published in 2016. He frequently contributes to Sight & Sound magazine SFX and Empire as well as numerous other magazines in the UK France and America. He writes regularly for Neo magazine and for the commercial blog All The Anime which both specialise in Japanese animation. He has also had pieces on animation published in the Guardian.20 years ago animated features were widely perceived as cartoons for children. Today they encompass an astonishing range of films styles and techniques. There is the powerful adult drama of Waltz with Bashir: the Gallic sophistication of Belleville RendezVous: the eyepopping violence of Japans Akira: and the stopmotion whimsy of Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the WereRabbit. Andrew Osmond provides an entertaining and illuminating guide to the endlessly diverse world of animated features with entries on 100 of the most interesting and important animated films from around the world from the 1920s to the present day.Blending indepth history and criticism 100 Animated Feature Films balances the blockbusters with local success stories from Eastern Europe to Hong Kong. This revised and updated new edition addresses films that have been released since publication of the first edition such as the mainstream hits Frozen The Lego Movie and SpiderMan: Into the SpiderVerse as well as updated entries on franchises such as the Toy Story movies. It also covers bittersweet indie visions such as Michael Dudok de Wits The Red Turtle Charlie Kaufmans Anomalisa Isao Takahatas Tale of the Princess Kaguya the family saga The Wolf Children and the popular blockbuster Your Name. Osmonds wideranging selection also takes in the Irish fantasy Song of the Sea Frances I Lost My Body and Brazils Boy and the World. Osmonds authoritative and entertaining entries combine with a contextualising introduction and key filmographic information to provide an essential guide to animated film.A new edition of an essential guide to 100 of world cinemas most interesting and important animated films from across the history of cinema.Ackno

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