This book provides a comprehensive account of Spanish animation history, from its early days through to the arrival of CGI. It examines the two main centers of production, Barcelona and Madrid, as well as evolving animation hubs in the Basque Country and Galicia.
The book also pays tribute to the women that were significant to the animation industry and had been invisible for many years, highlighting more recent attempts to achieve equality in the Spanish animation industry thanks to help from the government and women associations looking to balance the inequality in this domain.
This book will be of great interest to academics, students, and professionals working and researching in the field of animation.
This book provides a comprehensive account of Spanish animation history, from its early days through to the arrival of CGI. It examines the two main centers of production, Barcelona and Madrid, as well as evolving animation hubs in the Basque Country and Galicia.
1. Introduction,
2. From Trick Films to Cels (1906-1915): Early Spanish
Animation,
3. The Arrival of American Techniques (1915-1939): Advertising
Introduces Factory Production-Line Routines,
4. The Golden Age of Spanish
Animation (1939-1951),
5. From Short Production to Long-Form Animated Film
(1945-1952),
6. The Decline of Feature Films and the Emergence of
Contemporary Advertising Strategies (1952-1966),
7. Television, Inner Market,
and Underground Economy (1966-1975),
8. The Opposing Ways to Face Outsourcing
in the 1960s and 1970s: Cruz Delgado Studio and Filman,
9. The Resurgence of
Regional Autonomy in the Post-Dictatorship Era and the Basque Production
after 1975,
10. Final Splendor of Spanish Traditional Animation (1975-1990),
11. Maite Ruiz de Austri, a Fruitful Director,
12. Hybridization of 2D and
3D: Studios and Periodization,
13. Women Association and Government
Subsidies: Looking for Equality,
14. Conclusions, Appendix
1. Interview with
Carles and Jordi Grangel (Grangel Studio), Appendix
2. Discussion Session
with Isabel Herguera, Director of Sultanas Dream (2023)
Maria Pagès Rovira specializes in Spanish animation, holding a PhD in Animation from Universitat de VicUCC. She teaches 2D Animation in Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and she is a member of the Research Group Dicode in the Centre de la Imatge i la Tecnologia Multimèdia.
