The Live-Action Animated Film

by Kyle Meikle

Overview

Since cinema’s beginning, live actors and cartoon characters have traded places and invaded each other’s spaces, with real people getting animated and animated character getting real. The Live—Action Animated Film looks at the long history of movies that combine live action with 2D, stop—motion, and 3D animation to hallucinogenic effect. This survey suggests that the experimental and idiosyncratic mixed pics of the twentieth century set the template for the mainstream blockbusters of the twenty—first. Covering everything from Technicolor musicals and creature features to contemporary remakes and reboots, The Live—Action Animated Film brings this significant, boundary—blurring genre into sharper focus. In retrospect, the introduction of cartoons into live action looks as central to film history as the coming of sound or color.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781978828612
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	12/09/2025
Series:	Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

KYLE MEIKLE is an associate professor of English and Communication at the University of Baltimore. He is the author of Adaptations in the Franchise Era: 2001—16.

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Synchronization (1919—1989)
Chapter 2: Integration (1989—2021)
Chapter 3: Synergy (1941—2022)
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Further Reading
Works Cited
Selected Filmography
Index

Introduction 1
1 Synchronization (1919-1989) 15
2 Integration (1989-2021) 58
3 Synergy (1941-2022) 93
Conclusion 120
Acknowledgments 129
Further Reading 131
Works Cited 133
Selected Filmography 141
Index 145