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Animation
RISING STARS UK LTD 2008; US$ 6.99Learn the history and art of animation!The Snapshots series of colourful and visually appealing titles is designed to engage reluctant readers. With their bold design and familiar subject matter from battles to Batman these books are perfect for guided reading and for encouraging less able readers to enjoy reading alone. more...
Animation Under the Swastika
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 45.00Among their many idiosyncrasies, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, remained serious cartoon aficionados throughout their lives. They adored animation and their influence on German animation after World War II continues to this day. This study explores Hitler and Goebbels' efforts to establish a German cartoon industry... more...
You Might Be from Saskatchewan If . . .
MacIntyrePurcell Publishing, Inc 2012; US$ 9.99A delightful romp through one of Canada?s most beloved provinces, this illustrated collection of geographical quips, barbs, and jokes takes an intimate look at what it?s like to be from Saskatchewan. Perfect for visitors or longtime residents, this joke book is sure to bring laughs to any reader familiar with the Land of the Living Sky. more...
The Anime Encyclopedia, Revised & Expanded Edition
Stone Bridge Press 2012; US$ 24.95Completely revised edition, with more films plus all-new studio and artist entries more...
Prepare to Board! Creating Story and Characters for Animation Features and Shorts
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95Successful storyboards and poignant characters have the power to make elusive thoughts and emotions tangible for audiences. Packed with illustrations that illuminate and a text that entertains and informs, Prepare to Board , 2 nd edition presents the methods and techniques of animation master, Nancy Beiman, with a focus on pre-production, story development... more...
Xenophobe's Guide to the Canadians
Oval Books 2009; US$ 4.99The fabric of society The nation aspires towards a ?cultural mosaic,? something like a patchwork quilt, whereas Americans have aimed for the ?melting pot.? Canadians are essentially practical, and have figured out that the bat-brained idea of a melting pot would simply never work in a country where 50% of the land never completely thaws at all.... more...
Tequila Mockingbird
Running Press 2013; US$ 15.0065 excellent cocktail recipes for the lovers of wit and classic novels. more...
Superportraits
Taylor and Francis 1997; US$ 70.00As Nixon's unpopularity increased during Watergate, his nose and jowls grew to impossible proportions in published caricatures. Yet the caricatures remained instantly recognizable. Caricatures can even be superportraits, with the paradoxical quality of being more like the face than the face itself. How can we recognize such distorted images? Do caricatures... more...
Character Animation
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 39.95Improve your character animation with a mastery of traditional principles and processes including weight and balance, timing, walks, birds, fish, snakes, four legged animals, acting and lip-synch. Traditional animation skills and techniques are presented in both 2D and 3D space. The companion CD features demonstration animations and exercises conducted... more...
Cinema Anime
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 33.00This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last twenty-five years. The essays offer bold and insightful engagement with animé's concerns with gender identity, anxieties about body mutation and technological... more...









