Life in Death: My Animated Films 1976-2020 [Paperback]

Life in Death: My Animated Films 1976-2020 explores death as it relates to experience, storytelling, theory, and narrative.

Deaththe very word is resonant with emotion, imagery, and meaning. It is the ultimate life-event that all living things will eventually experience; as such, it comes as no surprise that death is often a popular theme of literature, art, games, cinema, music, and even animation. Dennis Tupicoff, world-renowned animator, writer, and producer, is an expert on the narrative application of death in animation. Take a journey with Tupicoff as he goes in-depth into the many themes, associations, and practices found in film and especially animation. Life in Death: My Animated Films 19762020 explores death as it relates to experience, storytelling, theory, and narrative. The examples in the very readable text are organized into three broad categories: cartoon, documentary, and hybrids of various types.

KEY FEATURES

• Explores death as a narrative theme within cinema and animation
• Biographical insight into Dennis Tupicoffs works and how the subject of death impacted these completed award-winning films
• Special online access to Dennis Tupicoffs animated works
• In-depth exploration into ten of Dennis Tupicoffs most influential animations

As writer/director/animator/producer, Dennis Tupicoff (1951) has made many films, both animated and live action, and has won many awards, including the Grand Prix at Ottawa, Oberhausen, Huesca, Istanbul, Madrid, and New Orleans. His career retrospectives have been screened in Krakow, Berkeley, Poznan, Kecskemet, Seoul, Gothenberg, Melbourl-