Kit Smyth Basquin

Mary Ellen Bute

Pioneer Animator

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This biography drawn from interviews with Bute's family, friends, and colleagues, presents the personal and professional life of the filmmaker and her behind-the-scenes process of making animated and live action films.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Libbey & Company
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 147mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780861967445
• ISBN-10: 0861967445
• Artikelnr.: 58502928

Autorenporträt

Kit Smyth Basquin holds a BA from Goucher College in history, an MA in art history from Indiana University, and a PhD in interdisciplinary studies from Union Institute and University, Cincinnati. She worked thirteen-and-a-half years as an administrator in the Drawings and Prints department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Prior to that she was curator of education and independent curator at the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee. She is a free-lance writer and a choral singer in New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: My Art Mother Chapter 1 Early Education: The Lavender in the
Shadows Chapter 2 Yale University 1925-1926,Floating University 1926-1927,
Houston Debut 1927-1928, and New York 1929-1930 Chapter 3 Abstract
Animation (1934-1953) Chapter 4 The Boy Who Saw Through Chapter 5 Passages
from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, 1965 Directed by Mary Ellen Bute: The
Inner Essential Picture Chapter 6 Thornton Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth
Chapter 7 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking: The Odyssey of Walt Whitman,
A Builder of the American Vision and Final Days Chapter 8 Cecile Starr:
Champion of Women Filmmakers Acknowledgements Chronology Mary Ellen Bute
and Theodore J. Nemeth, Jr. Filmography Bibliography Colour Plates