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L'Animation japonaise: Du rouleau peint aux Pokémon
Le Japon a vu se développer très tôt différents genres picturaux que l'on peut considérer comme les prémices de l'animation actuelle. Décriée à ses débuts en Occident, l'animation japonaise est aujourd'hui reconnue à sa juste valeur et est devenue source d'inspiration pour nombres de metteurs en scène internationaux. Conte, romance, aventure, fantastique, cyberpunk, l'animation japonaise regroupe tous les genres.
Brigitte Koyama étudie les évolutions techniques et artistiques qui ont marqué dix siècles d'animation japonaise, retraçant son histoire, des rouleaux peints aux estampes jusqu'aux films animés en noir et blanc, puis en couleurs.
Brigitte Koyama étudie les évolutions techniques et artistiques qui ont marqué dix siècles d'animation japonaise, retraçant son histoire, des rouleaux peints aux estampes jusqu'aux films animés en noir et blanc, puis en couleurs.
245 pages, Paperback
First published February 18, 2009
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February 3, 2016
I have very mixed feelings about this book. On the plus side, it is beautiful; the illustrations are well chosen, well captioned and the print quality is extremely high (I've given an extra star for appearance!). The structure of the book, however, is another matter. By the end, I felt I had been reading a sixth former's project. The book has no real flow; the author does briefly cover the history of Japanese scrolls, as well as the development in Europe of the various devices to produce moving images and their impact in Japan. She then covers the history of animation in Japan, picking out important people and studios. Interspersed in all this are transcripts of the various interviews she carried out, mostly verbatim.
The problem for is that it never engaged me in a subject that I already had a little interest in. The text is mostly lists of people, studios, and films released, with little or no interpretation and the interview transcripts seemed to me to have no place in the book at all. My knowledge of Japanese animation is very limited, but I had seen a number of Studio Ghibli films recently; about two thirds of the way through the book, there was one line which stated that the author had been unable to obtain interviews at the studio or permission to reproduce images. It was at this point that I began to wonder what else might be missing from the book.
Overall, this is a beautiful, coffee table book. It will give you a taste of Japanese animation, but is definitely not a comprehensive history.
The problem for is that it never engaged me in a subject that I already had a little interest in. The text is mostly lists of people, studios, and films released, with little or no interpretation and the interview transcripts seemed to me to have no place in the book at all. My knowledge of Japanese animation is very limited, but I had seen a number of Studio Ghibli films recently; about two thirds of the way through the book, there was one line which stated that the author had been unable to obtain interviews at the studio or permission to reproduce images. It was at this point that I began to wonder what else might be missing from the book.
Overall, this is a beautiful, coffee table book. It will give you a taste of Japanese animation, but is definitely not a comprehensive history.
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