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This course will explore one of the most popular and durable of all film genres, animation. We will look at the development of animation in all its aspects-as short subjects shown before features, animation as modern art, and the competition in the 1930s between the Walt Disney Studio in Bur-bank, California and the New York-based and more adult-oriented Fleischer Studios. We will see how Disney's move to features changed the medium even as the anarchic shorts from Warner Bros.- "Termite Terrace" influenced popular culture for many years. We will see the evolution of animation from a drawn, cel-based medium to the three-dimensional computer animation of Pixar, Dream-Works, and other animation studios of today. We will also look at animation internationally, with particular attention to Japanese animation and animation as modern art, as well as the effects of computer generated imagery (CGI) on live-action films. There will be regular class screenings.
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