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Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science

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Availability:In StockContributor:Colin WilliamsonPublish date:12/23/2025Pages:232
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Minnesota PressISBN-13:9781517914882ISBN-10:1517914884UPC:9781517914882Book Category:Performing Arts, ScienceBook Subcategory:Film, HistoryBook Topic:GenresSize:8.51 x 5.41 x 0.71 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCVFWC090C

Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science

How twentieth-century developments in science influenced the aesthetics of the burgeoning American cartoon


What do technical renderings of plant cells in trees have to do with Disney's animated opus Fantasia? Quite a bit, as it turns out: such emergent scientific models and ideas about nature were an important inspiration for Disney's groundbreaking animated realism. In Drawn to Nature, Colin...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Minnesota PressISBN-13:9781517914882ISBN-10:1517914884UPC:9781517914882Book Category:Performing Arts, ScienceBook Subcategory:Film, HistoryBook Topic:GenresSize:8.51 x 5.41 x 0.71 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCVFWC090C

Colin Williamson is assistant professor of cinema studies at the University of Oregon, author of Hidden in Plain Sight: An Archaeology of Magic and the Cinema, and associate editor of Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal.


Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

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