Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Sword in the Stone 50th Anniversary Edition
Friday, July 26, 2013
Updates on Salda's Arthurian Animation
Michael Salda's Arthurian Animation: A Study of Cartoon Camelots on Film and Television is now available from McFarland and coming soon from Amazon.com and other distributors.The contents have been uploaded to McFarland's page for the book and follow below. Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk currently offer previews of the contents, full preface, full introduction, and part of chapter one from the Kindle edition of the book (which is available to access today from both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk), and BarnesandNoble.com offers a preview to owners of its Nook readers (though I was unable to access this). This is definitely a must-get; click the preceding links for purchasing/previewing.
Table of Contents
Preface 1
Introduction 3
1. The Iris Opens: "Bosko’s Knight-Mare" 7
2. The Best Arthurian Cartoon Never Made: Hugh Harman’s King Arthur’s Knights 16
3. "To Ye Jousting Tournament": Arthur’s Postwar Rise 36
4. "What’s Up, Duke?" Variety in the 1950s and Early 1960s 43
5. The Sword in the Stone, a "Full-length Flop," and Arthurianimation’s Decline 59
6. The Profane and the Sacred: What Hath Monty Python Wrought? 77
7. Many Returns of the King: The 1980s 85
8. Arthur, Arthur, Everywhere: Short Animation of 1990s 100
9. Four Roads to Camelot: The Feature Film Bumper Crop of 1997-98 131
10. Where Lies Arthur? Arthurianimation Since 2000 151
Coda 175
Chapter Notes 177
Works Cited 189
Index 197
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