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The Quay Brothers: Into a Metaphysical Playroom - Softcover

Buchan, Suzanne

 
9780816646593: The Quay Brothers: Into a Metaphysical Playroom
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0816646597 ISBN 13: 9780816646593
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2011

Synopsis

This work is the first thorough analysis of the creative oeuvre of the Quay Brothers. Known for their animation shorts that rely on puppetry, miniatures, and stop-motion techniques, their fiercely idiosyncratic films are fertile fields for Suzanne Buchan's engaging descriptions and provocative insights into the Quays' art-and into the art of independent puppet animation.

Buchan's aesthetic investigation stems from extensive access to the Quay Brothers' artistic practices and work, which spans animation and live-action film, stage design and illustration. She also draws on a long acquaintance with them and on interviews with collaborators essential to their productions, as well as archival sources. Discussions of their films' literary origins, space, puppets, montage, and the often-overlooked world of sound and music in animation shed new light on the expressive world that the Quay Brothers generate out of their materials to create the poetic alchemy of their films.

At once a biography of the Quays' artistic trajectory and a detailed examination of one of their best-known films, Street of Crocodiles, this book goes further and provides interdisciplinary methodologies and tools for the analysis of animation.

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About the Author

Suzanne Buchan is professor of animation aesthetics and director of the Animation Research Centre at the University for the Creative Arts, United Kingdom.

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Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0816646597
ISBN 13 
9780816646593
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
296