Description: "Offers an ambitious and pioneering analysis of the role of technique, genre, humour, and sincerity in the work of Genndy Tartakovsky, exploring of the impact of his work on contemporary Western animation"--
Brief description: Kwasu David Tembo is a PhD graduate from the University of Edinburgh's Language, Literatures, and Cultures department. His research interests include - but are not limited to - comics studies, literary theory and criticism, philosophy, particularly the so-called "prophets of extremity" - Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida. He has published on Christopher Nolan's The Prestige, in The Cinema of Christopher Nolan: Imagining the Impossible, ed. Jacqueline Furby and Stuart Joy (2015), and on Superman, in Postscriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies (2017).
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"David Kwasu Tempo's book offers an interesting scholarly perspective on the work of much-admired animator Genndi Tartakovsky. Delving deep into cultural background and exegesis of Tartakovsky's many works it makes for an engaging and frequently thought-provoking read." --Hannes Rall, Professor of Animation Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
"Presenting an in depth account on the sincerity and virtuosity of Genndy Tartakowsky's animated oeuvre, Kwasu David Tembo's extensive research, interviews and filmic analysis, reveals the personal story and the intricacies behind the creative process of a contemporary master artist and animator." --João Paulo Schlittler, Associate Professor, School of Communication and Arts, University of São Paulo, Brazil