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Book Review: ‘Labyrinths of Animation’: Research into the Artistic Image in Russian Animation during the Second Half of the 20th Century

Book Review: ‘Labyrinths of Animation’: Research into the Artistic Image in... Book reviews 123 Gordan Calma teaches Film Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is webmaster of the Fleischer Popeye Tribute website [www.fleischerpopeye.com] and programmed a Fleischer Popeye retrospective for the Ottawa 04 International Animation Festival. [email: gcalma@rogers.com] Natalia Krivulja, ‘Labyrinths of Animation’: Research into the Artistic Image in Russian Animation during the Second Half of the 20th Century. Moscow: Graal, 2002. 295 pp. DOI: 10.1177/1746847706065849 A labyrinth is not the first thing that springs to mind when thinking of animation. In the original Greek sense, a kabt ´qimhoy simply means a building with a complicated layout. Today’s meaning – a complicated structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find a way – is not necessarily a metaphor that is evident when speaking of cartoons. Nevertheless, Natalia Krivulja has chosen the labyrinth as a motto for her recently published monograph ‘Лабиринты анимации . Исследование художественного образа российских анимаци- онных фильмов второй половины ХХ века’ (‘Labyrinths of Anima- tion’: Research into the Artistic Image in Russian Animation during the Second Half of the 20th Century). In the introduction, she explains why: Animation is a curious world of images, at the same time familiar, dear, extremely well known http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal SAGE

Book Review: ‘Labyrinths of Animation’: Research into the Artistic Image in Russian Animation during the Second Half of the 20th Century

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Book reviews 123 Gordan Calma teaches Film Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is webmaster of the Fleischer Popeye Tribute website [www.fleischerpopeye.com] and programmed a Fleischer Popeye retrospective for the Ottawa 04 International Animation Festival. [email: gcalma@rogers.com] Natalia Krivulja, ‘Labyrinths of Animation’: Research into the Artistic Image in Russian Animation during the Second Half of the 20th Century. Moscow: Graal, 2002. 295 pp. DOI: 10.1177/1746847706065849 A labyrinth is not the first thing that springs to mind when thinking of animation. In the original Greek sense, a kabt ´qimhoy simply means a building with a complicated layout. Today’s meaning – a complicated structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find a way – is not necessarily a metaphor that is evident when speaking of cartoons. Nevertheless, Natalia Krivulja has chosen the labyrinth as a motto for her recently published monograph ‘Лабиринты анимации . Исследование художественного образа российских анимаци- онных фильмов второй половины ХХ века’ (‘Labyrinths of Anima- tion’: Research into the Artistic Image in Russian Animation during the Second Half of the 20th Century). In the introduction, she explains why: Animation is a curious world of images, at the same time familiar, dear, extremely well known

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Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal – SAGE

Published: Jul 1, 2006

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