- Title
- Coraline's 'Other World': The Animated Camera in Stop-Motion Feature Films
- Creator
- Shadbolt, Jane
- Relation
- Coraline: A Closer Look at Studio LAIKA's Stop-Motion Witchcraft p. 115-134
- Relation
- Animation: Key Films/Filmmakers
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501347894.ch-006
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009) opens in storm clouds with a high sweeping exterior shot that cranes down from a grey Ashland sky, past foggy evergreen forest mountains, sweeping over a large Queen Anne mansion and gently coming to rest framing a softly swaying sign that reads ‘Pink Palace Apartments’ (see Figure 6.1). A mover’s van pulls up with a hiss of hydraulic brakes and a jaunty little VW Beetle scoots around to the back of the house bearing a teetering pile of suitcases. Apart from Mr Bobinsky’s enthusiastic calisthenics performance on the ridge of the mansion roof, it could be the opening scene for any number of teen movies where a heroine’s journey starts with a reluctant forced move to the countryside.[1] The camera moves on, floating through a montage of furniture, curious neighbours and disgruntled movers, before travelling around to the back of the house and crashing into a young girl. We watch her from afar as she explores the gardens and beyond until, startled by a cat, she runs headlong into an unfamiliar and threatening landscape. She turns, confronts the cat angrily and we, as the audience, are introduced to Coraline.
- Subject
- animation; feature films; Coraline; stop-motion witchcraft
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1438599
- Identifier
- uon:40659
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781501347863
- Language
- eng
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