EMILE COHL, CARICATURE, AND FILM, is now available again after many years of being out-of-print and a ridiculously overpriced collectible. These are my remaining first-edition author's copies. When they're gone, they're gone! This is the uncirculated hardcover library edition on acid-free paper with a new dust jacket.
The original price was $85US. The price on Amazon.Com is $55US.
To find the book, paste this URL into your web browser:
http://www.amazon.com/Emile-Cohl-Caricature-Donald-Crafton/dp/0691055815/ref=sr_oe_3_1
Best wishes,
Donald Crafton
...A marvelously vivid panorama of the French cinema--as an industry, social institution, and popular art form--at the moment, in 1908, when Cohl first began working for Gaumont. -- Richard Abel, Persistence of Vision
Indisputably, Donald Crafton’s book is an essential contribution to the history not only of this genial animator…but also to cinema in general. It is essentially a study which analyzes the relations between the graphic and cinematic arts at the turn of the century (from Cohl's beginnings in caricature around 1880 to the end of World War I) and which encompasses all the social, artistic, psychological, technological, ideological and biographical aspects associated with the development of animation in France and in the United States. One may place this work here and now alongside of the likes of T.J. Clark’s on the painting of Courbet and Manet and its connections with nineteenth-century French society. --Michel Ciment, Positif
