British Television Animation 1997-2010

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Van Norris

   Pages 1-20

3. From There to Here — First, Second and Third Wave Animation

   • Van Norris

   Pages 21-54

4. A Quotation of Normality — The Family Myth

   • Van Norris

   Pages 55-84

5. ‘C’mon Mum, Monday Night Is Jihad Night’ — Race and Nostalgia

   • Van Norris

   Pages 85-114

6. ‘Unpack That …’ — Animating the Male

   • Van Norris

   Pages 115-140

7. Sacred Territory — Faith, Satire and the Third Wave

   • Van Norris

   Pages 141-166

8. Conclusion: It’ll Never Be as Good Again

   • Van Norris

   Pages 167-184

9. Back Matter

   Pages 185-231

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British Television Animation 1997-2010 charts a moment in TV history where UK comic animation graduated from the margins as part of a post-Simpsons broadcast landscape. Shows like Monkey Dust, Modern Toss and Stressed Eric not only reflected the times but they ushered in an era of ambition and belief in British adult animation.

• British animation
• UK animation
• UK comedy
• British comedy
• Monkey Dust
• Modern Toss
• Channel Four
• BBC
• Bob and Margaret
• Crapston Villas
• authorship
• animation industry
• cartoons
• adult animation
• adult cartoon
• Aardman
• Wallace and Gromit
• Creature Comforts
• I am Not an Animal
• Third Wave Animation

'Norris charts how everything from music hall traditions to the cartoons of Bob Clampett fed into millennial UK animation, but his main concern is how series such as Monkey Dust fit into the wider British satirical landscape. Throughout the book Norris alternates between fascination with the workings of specific series and frustration with the shortcomings of the third wave as a whole.' - Neil Emmett, Cartoon Brew

• University of Portsmouth, UK

  Van Norris

Van Norris has been Senior Lecturer in Film, Media and Animation Studies at the School of Creative Art Film and Media, University of Portsmouth, UK, since 2003. Alongside his teaching in undergraduate and postgraduate studies in animation, comedy forms and graphic narrative forms, he has presented his research internationally and has published a range of well-regarded articles on animation and comedy, American science-fiction television and mainstream franchise cinema.

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