The Quay Brothers : into a metaphysical playroom / Suzanne Buchan.
By: Buchan, Suzanne
Minneapolis, Minn. ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: xxvii, 308 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 26631ISBN: 0816646597 (pbk.) :; 9780816646593 (pbk.) :; 0816646589 (hbk.) :; 9780816646586 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Quay, Stephen, 1947- -- criticism and interpretation | Quay, Timothy, 1947- -- criticism and interpretation | Brothers QuayDDC classification: 791.4302330922 LOC classification: NC1766.G7 | B763 2011
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This work is the first thorough analysis of the creative oeuvre of the Quay Brothers. Known for their animation shorts that rely on puppetry, miniatures, and stop-motion techniques, their fiercely idiosyncratic films are fertile fields for Suzanne Buchan's engaging descriptions and provocative insights into the Quays' art-and into the art of independent puppet animation.
Buchan's aesthetic investigation stems from extensive access to the Quay Brothers' artistic practices and work, which spans animation and live-action film, stage design and illustration. She also draws on a long acquaintance with them and on interviews with collaborators essential to their productions, as well as archival sources. Discussions of their films' literary origins, space, puppets, montage, and the often-overlooked world of sound and music in animation shed new light on the expressive world that the Quay Brothers generate out of their materials to create the poetic alchemy of their films.
At once a biography of the Quays' artistic trajectory and a detailed examination of one of their best-known films, Street of Crocodiles , this book goes further and provides interdisciplinary methodologies and tools for the analysis of animation.
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments (p. VII)
- Introduction (p. XI)
- 1 Authentic Trappers in Metaphysical Playrooms (p. 1)
- 2 Palimpsests, Fragments, Vitalist Affinities (p. 39)
- 3 Traversing the Esophagus (p. 75)
- 4 Puppets and Metaphysical Machines (p. 101)
- 5 Negotiating the Labyrinth (p. 135)
- 6 The Secret Scenario of Soundscapes (p. 167)
- 7 The Animated Frame and Beyond (p. 199)
- 8 These Things Never Happen But Are Always (p. 235)
- Conclusion (p. 257)
- Notes (p. 269)
- Bibliography (p. 285)
- Works of the Quay Brothers (p. 295)
- Index (p. 299)
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