Giannalberto Bendazzi
Biography
Giannalberto Bendazzi born in Ravenna, Italy in 1946, raised in Milan, is currently living in Genoa. His career began as a journalist and from the mid-1990s he has taught at prestigious universities around the world, including the University in Milan and as a visiting professor of animation history at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. In 2002 he received the Award for outstanding contribution to animation studies at the Animafest in Zagreb. In 2016 Asifa (Association internationale du film d'animation) granted him the Life Achievement Award.
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Giannalberto Bendazzi is an independent Italian film historian and animation history professor. He promotes animation through all possible channels, including books, articles, studies, essays, lectures and retrospectives. He has cooperated with international festivals and accepted participation in expert juries worldwide. Based on his perhaps most famous book, Cartoons: 100 years of Cinema Animation, he continued with a magnificient three-volume Animation: A World History. It follows animation history across all continents in over 90 countries and surprises readers with new insights on animators and their work, including current animation in Slovakia.