Book Talk: The Live-Action Animated Film by Kyle Meikle

Name: Book Talk: The Live-Action Animated Film by Kyle Meikle
Start: 2026-02-26T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-26T17:00:00-05:00
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Thu, Feb 26, 2026

4 PM – 5 PM EST (GMT-5)

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Join us in the RLB Library as UBalt Professor Kyle Meikle talks about his latest book The Live-Action Animated Film. You can also watch online, over Zoom.

Since cinema’s beginning, live actors and cartoon characters have traded places and invaded each other’s spaces, with real people getting animated and animated character getting real. The Live-Action Animated Film looks at the long history of movies that combine live action with 2D, stop-motion, and 3D animation to hallucinogenic effect. This survey suggests that the experimental and idiosyncratic mixed pics of the twentieth century set the template for the mainstream blockbusters of the twenty-first. Covering everything from Technicolor musicals and creature features to contemporary remakes and reboots, The Live-Action Animated Film brings this significant, boundary-blurring genre into sharper focus. In retrospect, the introduction of cartoons into live action looks as central to film history as the coming of sound or color.

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