Live-Action Animated Film
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2D animation
3D animation
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animated characters
animated film
animated realism
animation aesthetics
animation and live-action crossover
animation and spectatorship
animation history
animation in blockbusters
animation in Hollywood
animation in live-action
animation integration
animation synchronization
animation synergy
animation technology
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boundary-blurring genres
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cinematic hybridity
creature features
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experimental cinema
film
film genre studies
film history
franchise blockbusters
hybrid cinema
idiosyncratic filmmaking
Jason and the Argonauts
King Kong
live-action
live-action animated film
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Marvel Cinematic Universe
movie
reboots and remakes
special effects
stop-motion animation
Technicolor musicals
The Lion King
transmedia franchises
visual innovation
Product details
- ISBN 9781978828612
- Weight: 141g
- Dimensions: 114 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 09 Dec 2025
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Since cinema’s beginning, live actors and cartoon characters have traded places and invaded each other’s spaces, with real people getting animated and animated character getting real. The Live-Action Animated Film looks at the long history of movies that combine live action with 2D, stop-motion, and 3D animation to hallucinogenic effect. This survey suggests that the experimental and idiosyncratic mixed pics of the twentieth century set the template for the mainstream blockbusters of the twenty-first. Covering everything from Technicolor musicals and creature features to contemporary remakes and reboots, The Live-Action Animated Film brings this significant, boundary-blurring genre into sharper focus. In retrospect, the introduction of cartoons into live action looks as central to film history as the coming of sound or color.
KYLE MEIKLE is an associate professor of English and Communication at the University of Baltimore. He is the author of Adaptations in the Franchise Era: 2001-16.
