Nightmares in the Dream Sanctuary: War and the Animated Film

by Donna Kornhaber

In 2008, Waltz with Bashir shocked the world by presenting a bracing story of war in what seemed like the most unlikely of formats--an animated film. Yet as Donna Kornhaber shows in this pioneering new book, the relationship between animation and war is actually as old as film itself. The world's very first animated movie was made to solicit donations for the Second Boer War, and even Walt Disney sent his earliest creations off to fight on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022647268X
• ISBN13: 9780226472683
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"