This book provides a comprehensive account of German animation history, as well as an analysis of the current state of the industry in competition with American

Among their many idiosyncrasies, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, remained serious cartoon aficionados throughout their lives.

A continuation of 1994’s groundbreaking Cartoons, Giannalberto Bendazzi’s Animation: A World History is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive text of its

Animation was once a relatively simple matter, using fairly primitive means to produce rather short films of subjects that were generally comedic and often quit

Cartoons—both from the classic Hollywood era and from more contemporary feature films and television series—offer a rich field for detailed investigation an