Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan

by Teri J. Silvio

Book Overview

The early twenty-first century has seen an explosion of animation. Cartoon characters are everywhere--in cinema, television, and video games and as brand logos. There are new technological objects that seem to have lives of their own--from Facebook algorithms that suggest products for us to buy to robots that respond to human facial expressions. The ubiquity of animation is not a trivial side-effect of the development of digital technologies and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824881168
• ISBN13: 9780824881160
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"