A new history of animation / Maureen Furniss.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Setting the scene for animation -- The magic of early cinema -- Foundations of the animation industry -- The late silent era and the coming of sound -- Animation as a modern art -- Disney's new aesthetic -- Style and the Fleischer Studio -- Comedy and the dominance of American animation -- Animation in Word War II -- International developments in postwar animation -- Stop-motion approaches -- Midcentury shifts in American design -- Early television animation -- Postwar experimentation -- New audiences for animated features -- The emergence of electronic games -- Voices from the Eastern Bloc -- Authorship in animated shorts -- The Disney renaissance -- Television as a creative space -- Computer-generated animation in features -- The culture of Japanese animation -- The panorama of world animation -- Animation in the art world.