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Record Nr.

UNINA9910647300103321

Titolo

Watership Down : perspectives on and beyond animated violence / / Catherine Lester

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London [England] : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2022

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2022

ISBN

1-5013-7698-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 pages)

Collana

Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers.

Disciplina

791.43655

Soggetti

Animated films - History and criticism

Violence in motion pictures - Aesthetics

Animated films

Film theory & criticism

Film: styles & genres

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Watership Down in context / Catherine Lester  -- 'We consider the conduct of this film highly unsatisfactory and unprofessional' : film finances and Watership Down / Llewella  --  --  -- Chapman and James Chapman  -- Revisiting the production of Watership Down through the Arthur Humberstone Animation Archive / Klive Humberstone, Nigel  -- Humberstone and Chris Pallant  -- 'Trying to eat grass that isn't there' : unearthing a lapine corpus in Richard Adams' Watership Down and its film adaptation / R. Grider  -- Animating utopia : aesthetic instability and the revolutionary gaze in the film adaptation of Watership Down / Lisa Mullen  -- 'Whenever they catch you, they will kill you' : human-animal conflict in 1970s British children's cinema / Noel Brown  -- They watered ship down : eco-doom and ecopedagogy in adaptations of Watership Down and The animals of Farthing Wood / Hollie Adams  -- Watership Down under : when rabbits came to Australia / Dan Torre and Lienors Torre  -- 'English pastoral melodies' : the traditions and connotations of Angela Morley's musical score for Watership Down / Paul Mazey  -- 'I know now. A terrible thing is coming' : Watership Down, music and/as horror



/ Leanne Weston  -- Pastel dreams and crimson nightmares : colour, aesthetics and Watership Down / Carolyn Rickards  -- Prince with a thousand faces : shifting art-styles and the depiction of violence in Watership Down / Sam Summers  -- Drawing blood : the forms and ethics of animated violence in Watership Down / Josh Schulze  -- 'Won't somebody please think of the bunnies?' : Watership Down, rabbit horror and 'suitability' for children / Catherine Lester  -- Mourning Hazel-rah / Catherine Sadler.

Sommario/riassunto

"The first exclusive academic study of the aesthetic, cultural and historical significance of a landmark British animated film, Watership Down"-- Provided by publisher.