1st Edition
Adaptation for Animation Transforming Literature Frame by Frame
Preface
Author
PART 1: REFLECTING ABOUT ANIMATED ADAPTATION
"It Is the World, Which Is within the Head of the Artist": A Closer Look
at the History of Animated Adaptations. An Interview with Giannalberto Bendazzi
"Animation Can Aspire to Poetic Imagery and Feeling" An Interview with John Canemaker
PART 2: GENRES, STRATEGIES, AND METHODS
Animated Ever After: The Fairy Tale Adaptation
Things That Go Bump on the Screen: Adapting Gothic Literature for
Animation Including Interviews with Benny Zelkowicz, Georges Schwizgebel and Maria Lorenzo
As You Like It: Adapting Shakespeare for Animation Including an Interview with Prof. Michael Dobson, Director of the
Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon and Pippa Nixon, Member
of the Royal Shakespeare Company
Sushi on Sauerkraut? Transcultural AdaptationIncluding Interview with Ishu Patel
Visual Poetry and Experimental Adaptation: Rhyme with ReasonIncluding Interviews with Thomas Zandegiacomo Del Bel, Director of the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Anna Kalus Goessner, Stefan Leuchtenberg
and Martin Wallner, and Tan Wei Keong, Award Winning Animator
Uncharted Territories: Adapting Contemporary Literature for Animation Including Interview with Harry and Henry Zhuang, Singaporean Animation Directors
PART 3: IMAGES TO WORDS
Visual Development and Artistic Research: How Story Defines Style
for Animated AdaptationsIncluding Interview with Jorg von den Steinen, Editor at ZDF Germany
and Free Author
Afterword/Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Index
Biography
Hannes Rall is a tenured Associate Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media (ADM) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Area Coordinator of the Digital Animation Program at ADM.
Hannes Rall has shown his work in exhibitions and been an invited speaker for workshops and conferences in more than 20 countries worldwide. He has specialized in adapting classic literature, folk legends and fairy tales for animation from both Western and Asian source material. His films have been screened in more than 550 festivals and won 65 international awards.
He is a member of the Society of Animation Studies. Hannes has conducted research as principal investigator (PI) in 11 interdisciplinary research grants and been awarded 11 major film funding grants. His book Animation: From Concept to Production was published by CRC Press in 2017.
