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1 online resource (209 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction; 1: Czech Animation and Music: Premises and Context; Origins of Czech Animation; Why Puppets? The Czech Puppet Theater Tradition; From Stage to Screen; Sound and Music in Early Puppet Films; Smetana and the Puppet Theater: A Case Study; 2: Jiří Trnka: Early Career and Relationship with Music; Trnka the Puppeteer; Trnka the Illustrator, Painter, and Designer; Trnka and Music; Brothers, Tricks, Shirts, and Films; 3: Václav Trojan's Music: A Stylistic Outline |
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4: The Films by Trnka and TrojanZasadil dEˇdek rEˇpu (Grandpa Planted a Beet, 1945); Zvírˇátka a Petrovští (The Animals and the Bandits, 1946); ŠpaliCˇek (The Czech Year, 1947); CísaRˇU˚v slavík (The Emperor's Nightingale, 1949); CˇertU˚v mlýn (The Devil's Mill, 1949); Román s basou (The Story of the Contrabass, 1949); Bajaja (Prince Bajaja, 1950); Veselý CirKus (The Merry Circus, 1951); O zlaté rybce (The Golden Fish, 1951); Staré povEˇsti Cˇeské (Old Czech Legends, 1953); Jak staRˇeCˇek mEˇnil, až vymEˇnil (How the Old Man Traded It All Away, 1953) |
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Dobrý voják Švejk (The Good Soldier Švejk, 1954-1955)KuTˇásek a Kutilka jak ráno vstávali (KuTˇásek and Kutilka Woke Up in the Morning, 1955); ProCˇ UNESCO (Why UNESCO?, 1958); Sen noci svatojánské (A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1959); Ruka (The Hand, 1965); Appendix 1; Appendix 2; References; Index |
| Summary |
This book explores the Czech composer Vclav Trojan (1907-1983) and his compositions for Jiri Trnka's films, a very influential puppet stop-motion animator. Trnka is regarded as one of the finest outcomes of Czech art in the aftermath of the Second World War and inspiration for contemporary directors like Tim Burton and companies such as Aardman or Laika. Trojan's music for animation sets a great artistic model in European animation, at least as meaningful as Carl Stalling's music for Warner Bros. cartoons in the USA. Trojan was an eclectic artist, which encompassed folk songs, jazz and blues influences, neoclassical symphonic and chamber works, opera and more. Key Features: A historical overview of the origins and early development of Czech animation Biographical sketches and stylistic outline of both Trnka and Trojan An audiovisual analysis of all the available Trnka films Trojan wrote music for Filmography and bibliography |
| Notes |
Marco Bellano, PhD, is adjunct professor in History of Animation and post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padua, Italy. He previously taught History of Italian Cinema at the Boston University Study Abroad Padua. Several times he has been guest teacher in Film Music at the University of Salamanca, Spain. He graduated from the Conservatory of Vicenza in Piano and Orchestral Conducting. In 2014 the SAS-Society for Animation Studies assigned him the Norman McLaren-Evelyn Lambart Award for the Best Scholarly Article; the SAS also co-funded his conference "Il cinema d'animazione e l'Italia" (Padua, 2014). He was Chair of the 29th SAS Annual Conference (Padua, 2017). He is associate editor of the cinema journal Cabiria and member of the scientific board of Popular Music Research Today: Revista Online de Divulgación Musicológica (University of Salamanca). He collaborates with many orchestras and cultural organizations, including the Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice. He wrote the books Metapartiture. Comporre musica per i film muti (2007) and Animazione in cento film (2013, with Giovanni Ricci and Marco Vanelli) |
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Print version record |
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Trojan, Václav, 1907-1983 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Trnka, Jiří, 1912-1969 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Trnka, Jiří, 1912-1969 fast |
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Trojan, Václav, 1907-1983 fast |
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Animated film music -- Czech Republic -- History and criticism
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Stop-motion animation films -- Czech Republic -- History and criticism
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COMPUTERS -- Computer Graphics -- Game Programming & Design.
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Animated film music
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Stop-motion animation films
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Czech Republic
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019018726 |
| ISBN |
9781351122269 |
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1351122266 |
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9781351122276 |
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1351122274 |
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9781351122252 |
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1351122258 |
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9781351122245 |
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135112224X |
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