British Television Animation 1997-2010 [electronic resource] : Drawing Comic Tradition /
Norris, V.author.
British Television Animation 1997-2010 charts a moment in TV history where UK comic animation graduated from the margins as part of a post-Simpsons broadcast landscape. Shows like Monkey Dust, Modern Toss and Stressed Eric not only reflected the times but they ushered in an era of ambition and belief in British adult animation.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Ttile; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Animating the landscape; A marker of the times; An Alternative to the alternative; Overview; 1 From There to Here - First, Second and Third Wave Animation; First Wave Animation: energy and movement (1955-1978); Second Wave Animation: a time of possibilities (1979 - 1996); Third Wave Animation: this is the place where you live (1997 - 2010); Conclusion; 2 A Quotation of Normality - The Family Myth; The sitcom family; The Simpsonian family; The mythic family; Drawing comic traditions; Third Wave families
The return to suburbiaA man about the house; Surrogacy and culture; Conclusion; 3 'C'mon Mum, Monday Night Is Jihad Night' - Race and Nostalgia; Animating minorities; BBC 3, comedy and Monkey Dust; Post-politically correct comedy; Immigrant tales; The enemy within; Ambivalence and nostalgia; Conclusion; 4 'Unpack That ...' - Animating the Male; A new terrain; Ownership, connection and agenda; Form and theme; Looking for clues; The flawed male; Animating the comic male; Gendered humour; Conclusion; 5 Sacred Territory - Faith, Satire and the Third Wave; The sum of its parts
Adaptation and critiqueAnimating satire; Expediency, unity and retreat; Conclusion; 6 Conclusion: It'll Never Be as Good Again; Going backwards looking forwards; Anymore for anymore; Fourth Wave Animation; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
British Television Animation 1997-2010 charts a moment in TV history where UK comic animation graduated from the margins as part of a post-Simpsons broadcast landscape. Shows like Monkey Dust, Modern Toss and Stressed Eric not only reflected the times but they ushered in an era of ambition and belief in British adult animation.
Civilization—History.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures—Production and direction.
Communication.
Sociology.
Animated films.
Cultural History.
Screen Studies.
Directing.
Media Research.
Animation.
Media Studies.