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Author: Peter C. Kunze
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.458kg
ISBN: 9781978827820
ISBN 10: 1978827822
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 15 September 2023
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""Staging a Comeback tells a fascinating, complex story of corporate ambition, artistic vision, and theatrical collaboration. Kunze brilliantly reveals how the interdependence of theater and animation, New York City and theme parks, Hollywood producers and Broadway musical theater artists enabled Disney's breathtaking success.""--Stacy Wolf ""author of Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre across America"" ""Peter Kunze's Staging a Comeback brings a fresh perspective to the Disney 'renaissance' of the 1980s and '90s. He examines these films' historical connection to the theatricality, anthropomorphic performance, and mediated liveness of classic animation. The book is also noteworthy for the author's innovative research methods, in light of the studio's reluctance to open up to independent scholarship. Kunze shows that if you can't enter the castle over the moat, you can storm it by way of the ramparts.""--Donald Crafton ""author of Shadow of a Mouse: Performance, Belief, and World-Making in Animation"""
Staging a Comeback tells a fascinating, complex story of corporate ambition, artistic vision, and theatrical collaboration. Kunze brilliantly reveals how the interdependence of theatre and animation, New York City and theme parks, Hollywood producers and Broadway musical theatre artists enabled Disney's breathtaking success. --Stacy Wolf author of Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America Peter Kunze's Staging a Comeback brings a fresh perspective to the Disney 'renaissance' of the 1980s and 90s. He examines these films' historical connection to the theatricality, anthropomorphic performance, and mediated liveness of classic animation. The book is also noteworthy for the author's innovative research methods, in light of the studio's reluctance to open up to independent scholarship. Kunze shows that if you can't enter the castle over the moat, you can storm it by way of the ramparts. --Donald Crafton author of Shadow of a Mouse: Performance, Belief, and World-Making in Animation
Peter Kunze's Staging a Comeback brings a fresh perspective to the Disney 'renaissance' of the 1980s and 90s. He examines these films' historical connection to the theatricality, anthropomorphic performance, and mediated liveness of classic animation. The book is also noteworthy for the author's innovative research methods, in light of the studio's reluctance to open up to independent scholarship. Kunze shows that if you can't enter the castle over the moat, you can storm it by way of the ramparts. --Donald Crafton author of Shadow of a Mouse: Performance, Belief, and World-Making in Animation
Author Information
PETER C. KUNZE is an assistant professor of communication at Tulane University. He is the editor or coeditor of several books, including The Films of Wes Anderson: Critical Essays on an Indiewood Icon, American-Australian Cinema: Transnational Connections, and Taking a Stand: Contemporary US Stand-Up Comedians as Public Intellectuals.
