Grendel Grendel Grendel: Animating Beowulf (Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers) - Softcover

Torre, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501381113 ISBN 13: 9781501381119

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Synopsis

This open access study of the film Grendel Grendel Grendel, directed by Alexander Stitt, presents it as a masterpiece of animation and design which has attained a national and international cult status since its release in 1981. The film, based on the novel, Grendel, by John Gardner, is a loose adaptation of the Beowulf legend, but told from the point of view of the monster, Grendel. Grendel Grendel Grendel is a mature, intelligent, irreverent and quite unique animated film - it is a movie, both in terms of content and of an aesthetic that was well ahead of its time. Along with a brief overview of Australian animation and a contextualization of where this animated feature fits within the broader continuum of Australian (and global) film history, Dan Torre and Lienors Torre provide an intriguing analysis of this significant Australian animated feature. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

About this title

About the Author

Dan Torre is a senior lecturer in the School of Design at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of a number of books, including: Animation - Process, Cognition and Actuality (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), Cactus (2017), Carnivorous Plants (2019) and co-author of Australian Animation - An International History (2018).

Lienors Torre is a lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. She writes on animation and related areas and is co-author of the book, Australian Animation - An International History (2018). She is also a practicing animator and artist.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501381113
• ISBN 13: 9781501381119
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216