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Coraline : a closer look at Studio LAIKA's stop-motion witchcraft

Title
Coraline : a closer look at Studio LAIKA's stop-motion witchcraft / edited by Mihaela Mihailova.
Publication
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2021.

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Additional Authors
Mihailova, Mihaela
Description
xi, 279 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.
Summary
"Explores Coraline's technological and aesthetic approaches, its narrative and visual roots, and its impact on contemporary stop-motion filmmaking and children's media" --
Series Statement
Animation : key films/filmmakers
Uniform Title
Animation: key films/filmmakers.
Subject
  • Selick, Henry > Criticism and interpretation
  • Gaiman, Neil. > Film adaptations
  • LAIKA (Firm)
  • Coraline (Motion picture)
  • Stop-motion animation films > United States > History and criticism
  • Stop-motion animation films > Production and direction
  • Animation (Cinematography) > United States
  • Animation (Cinematography)
  • Stop-motion animation films
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Film adaptations.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Coraline : a twitchy, witchy girl in stop-motion land / Mihaela Mihailova -- Part 1. Historical contexts and perspectives. Drawing Coraline : illustration, adaptation, and visuality / Malcolm Cook ; Mixing it up : Coraline and LAIKA's hybrid world / Miriam Harris ; Armatures in the closet : Coraline and the history of stop motion / Mihaela Mihailova ; The surprising migrations of 2 1/2 D : the background to Coraline / Norman M. Klein -- Part 2. Stop-motion technology, process and spectatorship. Replacing Coraline / Dan Torre ; Coraline's 'other world' : the animated camera in stop-motion feature films / Jane Shadbolt ; A world within reach : a neuroanimatic perspective on themes of threat in the miniature world of Coraline / Ann Owen ; Darkness and delight : the reception of Coraline in the USA and UK / Rayna Denison -- Part 3: Puppet politics : ideology, identity, representation. The other maiden, mother, crone(s) : witchcraft, queer identity, and political resistance in LAIKA's Coraline / Kodi Maier ; Becoming-puppet : failed interpellation and the uncanny subjection in Coraline / Eric Herhuth ; The wandering child and the family in crisis in Henry Selick's Coraline / Jane Batkin ; Fa(r)ther figures : locating the author father in Coraline / Nicholas Andrew Miller -- A guide to further research.
Call Number
MFLP (Coraline) 22-299
ISBN
  • 9781501347863
  • 1501347861
LCCN
2021007999
OCLC
1201226282
Title
Coraline : a closer look at Studio LAIKA's stop-motion witchcraft / edited by Mihaela Mihailova.
Publisher
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2021.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Animation : key films/filmmakers
Animation: key films/filmmakers.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Open access.
Added Author
Mihailova, Mihaela, editor.
Other Form:
Online version: Coraline New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 9781501347870 (DLC) 2021008000
Research Call Number
MFLP (Coraline) 22-299
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