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Covering every move the Pink Panther has ever made in the last 40 years - this is the ultimate guide to the coolest cat in town...
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Not a bad deal.......2007-02-17
I bought it after groing up going to the theater and watching all of the Pink Panther cartoons brfore the main attraction. As a fan of animation just loved watching all these cartoons and laughing all over again.
The Pink Panther RULES!!!! .......2007-01-04
This book tells of much information about The Pink Panther. It gives many historical information and how The Pink Panther cartoon/movies progressed, and it is VERY detailed. I think you should buy this book if you're a Pink Panther lover. He is definitely an all-time favorite and classic.
BECK BOOK BRIMS WITH B STRING BOMBS.......2006-08-28
While many recall "The Ant and the Aardvark", few may remember "Roland and Rattfink" or "Super President" as parts of the DFE animation canon. "R and R" were an ill-advised Jay Ward ripoff and "S P" played like 'what if JFK had been an indestructible superhero who didn't resemble or sound like himself?' Jerry Beck unearths just about everything one needs to know on the now near-forgotten but once highly regarded DFE studio's output. IMO, the shocking crudity of the DFE house design comes as a rude re-awakening to the low standard of animation in the 1960's. Even the design work in the wretched early 1990's talking Pink Panther series looks more polished, though those cartoons remain utterly unwatchable. Yes, it's indeed a pity that the book doesn't have legal rights to the stellar images and adroit animation poses by Ken Harris at the Richard Williams Studio done for the main title of 1975's "The Return of the Pink Panther" but that movie can still be found on DVD in remaindered bargain bins for around eleven bucks. It's a Universal DVD release, despite having been originally made for United Artists. That particular title sequence puts everything else in this book (and I mean everything) to shame, including Shag's whole career as a too hip for the room postapocalyptic pseudo cartoon designer mostly getting Ed Benedict wrong for overpriced, volume marketed cocktail napkins. Forget that [...] Buy Jerry's fine Pink Panther book and learn a few hard animation facts that should be etched onto your brainpan.
Good but Not Complete.......2006-02-06
This is a very good book on the Pink Panther in films and art. However, it is not complete. It ignores and does not even metion the RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER film. Yet, it is the best book on the subject to date.
PINK PANTHER ROCKS.......2006-02-02
The Pink Panther is among my all time favourite cartoon characters that I grew up with.I bought my copy of this book at Chapters Bookstore yesterday.It was definetly worth it.This is the best book I've ever seen on my favourite panther.His complete history is completely detailed in this book.As one poster wrote,it goes from the 1960s all the way to the current decade.Not only that,but every Pink Panther/Inspector Clouseu movie(except for Return Of The Pink Panther)is fully detailed too.Plus all of the panther's cartoon costars,The Inspector,The Ant & The Ardvark,Mister Jaws etc..,are fully detailed as well.
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Going beyond the box-office hits of Disney and Dreamworks, this guide to every animated movie ever released in the United States covers more than 300 films over the course of nearly 80 years of film history. Well-known films such as Finding Nemo and Shrek are profiled and hundreds of other films, many of them rarely discussed, are analyzed, compared, and catalogued. The origin of the genre and what it takes to make a great animated feature are discussed, and the influence of Japanese animation, computer graphics, and stop-motion puppet techniques are brought into perspective. Every film analysis includes reviews, four-star ratings, background information, plot synopses, accurate running times, consumer tips, and MPAA ratings. Brief guides to made-for-TV movies, direct-to-video releases, foreign films that were never theatrically released in the U.S., and live-action films with significant animation round out the volume.
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Excellent reference!.......2007-06-18
Excellent book! I give it 4 stars because it's not an all-inclusive animated movie guide as it fails to mention the Dot character from the 80's, which was released in theatres, and there are few colored photographs.
I would save my money and instead check this book out from the library as I did because it's not worth paying as much as it sells for; unless, you want the whole animated movie guide to keep.
Bottom line: Great reference work, but I'd rather save my money and buy DVDs! :)
Great Resource.......2007-01-20
My daughter is using this as a resource for Computer Animation classes at the Art Institute of Atlanta
Any animation buff must have this giant gem.......2006-07-31
Jerry Beck is one the best animation historians out there and his new book proves this once again."The Animated Movie Guide" has a treasure trove of information on numerous animated films, even the most obsecure films get a mention.Jerry Beck KNOWS what is hot and what is not in animated films, so I would definetly pick up the films that get a good review in this book. I'll guarantee you'll find a film or film fact you never heard before, so pick this one up.
Totally addictive!.......2006-01-21
Beware - Jerry Beck's guide to animated feature films is totally addictive! If you want to sleep at night, forget it!
Once you start reading this book, you're compelled to read on to the next film and find out who animated it, who was involved, little stories about the production, and if the film made money...I became totally obsessed!
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- Wonderful & Inspirational
- A childs' First Book of Self Improvement.
- Amazingly Insperational
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Wonderful & Inspirational.......2001-08-15
This book is truly to be a favorite for any Disney fan. Not only is it inspirational, but it is fun at the same time. Seeing all of the Disney characters,and their quotes,brings back many memories. It's amazing how all of the quotes from the Disney characters can really be applied to your own life. I highly reccomend this book for any one. It also makes a great gift for a friend who may be going through a rough time. It definatley will make them smile!
A childs' First Book of Self Improvement........2001-07-13
Wonderful and delightful. A combination of the Wonderful Magic the world of Disney brings us, along with the encouragement and lessons that will lead a child to the begining of love for self and life.
Amazingly Insperational.......2000-05-26
This book combines classic animated feature frames with lines from their movies that will move, touch, inspire, and delight anyone and everyone. Makes a great gift. Deffinetly worth reading and keeping on your coffee table for easy reference.
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Rant, rant, rant.......2004-10-15
I agree that this book is only a rant against the BBFC, which the author may have found justified to put in print, but I simply want to correct the correction to what Mr Wenat qualifies as "poor knowledge of Japan" on the part of the author which, again, may be true, but his correction isn't quite accurate either.
As the Japanese school system is divided into primary school, junior high school, high school, and university levels and that, in fact, primary, junior high, and high school students DO ABSOLUTELY have to wear a uniform. I do not exactly recall if McCarthy used "junior college" or not in the text, but in some parts of the English-speaking world, as far as I remember, it refers to high school students. Japanese students enter high school at age 16 and graduate at 18. Whether the age of consent is 13 in Nagoya and Tokyo is irrelevent, because the universal age of majority in Japan is 20. Thus anything below that is underage sex.
As for enjo kosai, this is not usually somehting present in anime (although I've seen some), but that is not a phenomenon only present amongst high school girl, but also amongst housewives, office ladies, university students and freeters, thus can be considered prostitution with all it implies. However, its ommission from the McCarthy text does put somewhat of a hole in their argumentation about school uniforms, but is not entirely relevent from the discussion either.
As for all anime not being ero-anime cannot be effectively shown or understood through this guide, since the flow of nonero-anime to the west is still at a trickle. The number of OVA is decreasing because of late-night TV airings, and a simple search on Amazon.co.jp through DVD and video demonstrates this fairly quickly.
The fact remains that the erotic undertones of anime are strong, but when one thinks about who they REALLY aim, which is mostly pre-teens, teens, and young adults (sex notwithstanding), anime simply attempts to capitalise on what boys want (big breasted characters and mecha) and the girls with idealised love stories, beautiful men and women characters, and cute stuff, something they yearn for and try to achieve themselves. But then, if anyone has recently seen a film from the United States without any erotic undertones, you are welcome to drop me a line.
Besides, this book was written in 1999... This is getting aged.
No Sex Please, We're British (Says the BBFC).......2003-12-31
Anime fans frequently praise this book as an explanation of the sexuality in anime. This is a COMPLETE AND TOTAL misunderstanding of what this book is. In truth, this book is a work of apologetics against the "sex and tentacles" reputation that anime has in Great Britain-- the residence of the authors.
The key to understanding this book is the chapter on the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) which must rate and evaluate every movie that is released in the UK. If the film contains content that is deemed too explicit, the film must either accept cuts or be banned from being shown in the UK. Anime, particularly the adult titles that came out in the early days of the anime explosion, tended to require frequent cuts (Johnathan Clements translated some anime titles for the UK, which the BBFC cut or banned. This may explain his venom in the chapters he wrote).
All the other chapters center around the fact that anime has a bad reputation in the UK. This history (which gets some facts wrong) is meant to say to the British reader: The Japanese are not a nation of sexual perverts. The discussion of certain series (notably Urutsukidoji) are meant to inform the British reader what actually happened in the stories as opposed to the distorted rumors that were going around the country. The movie section gives a selection of titles (which is NOT intended by them to be exhaustive) meant to show the British reader that not all anime is porn.
The book has problems. First, is their ludicrous attempt to explain away the fact that some anime sexualizes minors. They claim that these people wearing school uniforms are actually junior college students and all females that are sexual objects are adults. This is a statement that is irresponsibly false. If they knew it, it is a complete lie. if not, it reflects poorly on their knowledge of Japan. College students don't wear uniforms, and in Japan, up until 1999 (after the time the book was written) the age of consent in Nagoya and Tokyo was 13 and girls could get married at 16. Moreover, the concept of enjo kosai (compensated dating-- a sort of informal prostitution by high school girls) was a factor at the time of their writing, but it goes unmentioned by the authors-- a point that puts a big hole in their argument and hence omitted.
The second major problem is this book was written by some angry people. In fairness, I would not care to live under the BBFC determining what I can watch. However, with anger, clarity and rationality suffers. The book seems vitrolic and frequently fails to come to a point. There are distortions (They imply that two episodes of "Crying Freeman" had so much censored by the BBFC, that the distributor had to put them together on one tape. In actuality, less than one minute was cut from both episodes combined. As a result, their credibility suffers. Also, they seem to operate under a belief that a high quality story that is sexually explicit ought not to be put in the same category as a sleazy porn story. So they classify anime as being mainstream, erotic or porn. The problem is this makes everything relative: Only stuff I *don't* like can be considered porn.
So essentially, the book does not deliver as a rational discussion of erotic anime. It comes off looking more like a 191 page rant against the BBFC.
The real history of erotic anime..........2002-09-28
191 pages of a serious study of the anime's history in Japan and impact of ... anime in the western world. The book deals with its roots, how much of it is made in Japan (when compared to other categories), the many types (..., horror, ..., so on), the characters, anime games and even how translations, from Japanese to English, sometimes made a normal anime into a ... version that will increase its selling power in the English and American market BUT destroy the story line. It also deals with the media's reactions to anime and how marketing strategies make a cartoon worse than it started out with. For example, ... boys are more likely to buy a cartoon with a adult rating than one for family viewing. Also the book shows how most ... anime is bought up by mainstream video/DVD viewers NOT anime fans (who are more likely going to want the Japanese, and therefore pre-eroticized, version of the story).
Contains adult material, so only for 18 years or older AND only for the serious reader.
getting old, but still worthwhile.......2002-02-17
This one's a bit of a mixed bag. Part of the problem is that the same author's later Anime Encyclopedia makes the latter half of it (a list of Erotic anime), completely redundant. However, the first half, comprising learned essays on anime topics, remain very intriguing. In particular, this book contains a fascinating study of the media's reaction to anime, and the first account of the shonen ai genre to go into any reasonable depth. Very important for anyone who takes anime seriously, but bear in mind that only part of the book is still relevant today.
The History of Anime.......2000-10-15
This is an extremely in-depth look at the history of anime and the role of eroticism in shaping it. It also covers the views that have shaped how anime is perceived. It has a guide to individual movies which takes up about a third of the book, but only half of those are erotic films. A must for increasing your understanding of anime, but it is not really a film guide.
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Good but not complete.......2000-07-04
I'm a Disney poster collector. And this book shows a lot of their best posters - but t his is not enough for a collector. We need a complete book with at least their US poster releases plus ranges of the latest prices.
Book Description
From Dumbo and Simba to the 101 Dalmatians, Disney's collection of beloved animal characters is presented together for the very first time in this beautifully illustrated guide.
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Nice Coverage, Mostly.......2006-12-18
"Disney Animals: The Essential Guide" focuses on the major hero animals from the Disney films. You'll find characters in here from Simba to Dumbo and even the fish from the Disney Pixar film "Finding Nemo."
This book is fully illustrated on every page, with pleasing pastel colors and good humor. For example --- in the section about Bambi, Jimini Cricket (who's your helpful conscience and guide throughout the book) gives a warning about dangerous levels of cuteness that might alarm older readers. He gives a "How Cute Can You Go?" scale, with the baby birds singing in the spring rating a 100 --- Cute Overload.
Each entry is sectionalized, with features such as Character Likes and Dislikes, information about family, items such as "Royal Bulletins," sections for friends and more. The book is loaded with pictures from the film and will be an enjoyable refresher as well for fans of the film.
The only disappointment was limited coverage of some characters such as Sebastian, and the non-inclusion of certain characters --- i.e. Mushu from "Mulan," Mr. Stork from "Dumbo" (who is only seen in one picture) and a few other notables. Other than that, excellent book.
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This is the most complete film-by-film guide to anime with more than 750 listings of films and videos.
Customer Reviews:
The Ultimate Companion Guide to Anime!.......1999-12-18
If you're looking for the perfect companion to keep you informed in the anime movie buisness, then this is the book for you. Not only does it contain titles on every anime movie or series between 1983 to 1995, but it also gives you your money's worth of information. From important people that had to do with the anime, to translations for beginners, a short summary of the anime, references to other anime, and side notes to keep your interest. Every anime that this book has recommended is a must see. This is a great book if you're looking for an anime but don't know whether or not to see it. It still brings a tear to my eyes.
An excellent source for reviews and opinions of anime........1998-10-06
The Anime: movie guide, has a wonderful display of illustrations, reviews and information protruding from its pages. Although it is in great need of an update now, it has a wonderful selection of top ten lists, a very well made index and even a few helping words to get the new anime fan started. An excellent layout and page format. The only area I disliked was the way the categories were placed, I felt the icons on The Complete Anime Guides were much easier to use. Despite this negative area, The Anime: Movie Guide by Helan McCarthy is truly a book in which all anime fans should partake in.
Not COMPLETELY complete, but pretty darn close........1997-12-06
If you ever needed to look up an anime OVA or movie title, be it the original Japnese title of it's English translation, you could probably find it here. I've only noticed one omission, but found a lot of other titles I've never heard of.
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The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoon Series (A Da Capo paperback)
Jeff Lenburg
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Good Resource.......2001-12-29
This tome is quite worthy for any cartoon fan, the information seems well researched there are a few time where the actors and characters for a show are mismatched and not always are all characters listed.
The only reference you'll ever need.......2000-12-30
Do you ever watch those cable networks like CARTOON NETWORK, or TOON DISNEY? Jeff Lenburg's THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANIMATED CARTOONS will answer all of your nagging questions, from particular voice actors to episode titles. For a long time I suspected that Ted Knight, from MARY TYLER MOORE was the narator on SUPERFRIENDS. Now I Know! It's a must have book for video collector's as well. I collect superhero videos, and now I can tell the 4 different SPIDERMAN shows apart. The subdivided text includes: Series, Features, Shorts and Specials...
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