POP CULTURE AND GEEK BOOK LIST DECEMBER 2019

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Welcome to the first issue of the Full Contact Nerd newsletter.  In November and December I interviewed voice actress Faya Mata about her anime and gaming work and you can listen to that here. I also interviewed Rebecca Thompson about the science in Game of Thrones and you can listen to that here.

Today’s book listings range from gothic animals, video game landscapes, Disney history, an H.G. Wells biography, Star Wars art, to Stan Lee. Enjoy. Click here for a list of relevant books being published between January and June 2020.

ANIME AND MOVIE ART STUDIES

The Art of Concrete Genie

COMIC BOOK AND ANIMATION HISTORY

A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee

DISNEY HISTORY

Walt Disney’s Ultimate Inventor

One Day at Disney

Discussing Disney

FANTASY STUDIES – LITERATURE AND ART

Roy G. Krenkel

Literary Fantasy in Contemporary Chinese Diasporic Women’s Literature

Re-Enchanted

FILM AND TV STUDIES

Why We Remake

Girlhood on Disney Channel

HORROR STUDIES – LITERATURE, MOVIES, AND ART

Monster Anthropology

An Ethical Guidebook to the Zombie Apocalypse

Get Out

NOIR, THRILLER, AND MYSTERY FICTION AND FILM STUDIES

Hong Kong Dark Cinema

Mexico Noir

MYTHS AND FOLKLORE STUDIES

Mediating the Otherworld in Polish Folklore

SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES – LITERATURE, MOVIES, AND ART

H.G. Wells

STAR WARS AND STAR TREK POP CULTURE

The Moviemaking Magic of Star Wars: Ships & Battles

Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker Visual Dictionary

Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker The Galactic Guide

I Am C-3PO – An Inside Story

VIDEO GAME AND BOARD GAME STUDIES

War Games

Architectonics of Game Spaces

Ludotopia

WEIRD FICTION STUDIES

An Eclectic Bestiary

Gothic Animals

WESTERNS AND OLD WEST HISTORY

Heroes of the Borderlands

The American West on Film

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Animation history book – “Eat, Drink, Animate” (CRC Press, 2019) – Tom Sito interview

Tom Sito has been a film animator for decades and has worked on some of Disney’s biggest films. He teaches animation and is also a member of the Motion Picture Academy where he is also works in the short films and animation division. He’s written a cookbook that collects together various recipes from animators that Tom has known, met or simply admired.

2:02 – Tom talks about how he came about to write the animators’ recipes cookbook.

5:20 – Tom talks about how animators incorporated food in their animation.

8:19 – Tom talks about the history of computer animation.

11:30 – Tom talks about the theater experience versus seeing a movie on a small screen.

14:03 – Tom talks about what new computer animation techniques are being developed.

18:10 – Tom talks about animation cinematography.

24:37 – Tom talks about experimentation in short films.

27:13 – Tom talks about Japanese animation and other international animated films.

30:15 – Tom talks about computer animated film budgets.

46:29 – Tom talks about mixing live-action and animation. They’re referred to as hybrid films.

48:30 – Tom talks about stop-motion animation.

54:04 – Tom talks about the proliferation of short films. He also discusses how people can have success getting their short films seen for notice or awards.

1:00:10 – Tom talks about possible major changes in computer animation.

1:03:32 – Tom was a website at tomsito.com

 

Links of interest

https://www.crcpress.com/Eat-Drink-Animate-An-Animators-Cookbook/Sito/p/book/9780815399766

http://anim.usc.edu/faculty/tom-sito/

 

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