Another book on animation cinema completes the list of books dedicated to this genre that pleases both children and adults alike. Sávio Leite, who is a professor of animation film and director of MUMIA - Mostra Udigudi Mundial de Animação, active in the capital of Minas Gerais for eighteen years, launches A Forma realized: O cinema de Animação, by Cuban critic Dean Luis Reis, the fourth dedicated book to the theme launched by Mostra and its second translation.
 The book was acquired in Havana, when Leite was selected for the prestigious film festival on the island, with his short film Vênus, based on a poem by Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst.
 As if mapping a territory, the book begins with the pioneers of animation in the 20th century, but introduces new early film makers who flirted with animation, such as the Swiss Hans Ritcher and the Swedish Viking Eggeling. The book also proposes to discuss Japanese animation based on two of its exponents, Osamu Tezuka and Hayao Miyazaki, and also analyzes the difference between manga and anime and how these works impacted the West.
 The production of Cuban director Juan Padrón (1947/2020) is subject to analysis. He made one of the most cult films in all of Latin America: Vampires in Havana, a 1985 feature. The book is dedicated to the director who died in March of that year and left behind an exemplary work. Russian animation Yuri Norstein's Tale of Tales, considered one of the most important animations in history, also receives a long analysis in the book, with an approach to its technical and metaphysical aspects. The Russian author, one of the biggest names in world animation, gave the image for the Brazilian cover.
 The works of the American brothers Quay, Stephen and Timothy, world famous for their strange stop motion animations, are also the subject of analysis and bridge to the parade of other important personalities in Eastern European animation cinema, such as Jan Lenica, Wladyslaw Starewicz and Jan Svankmajer.
 The book also has a special chapter on digital cinema and new forms of production, from a masterful Polish short, from 1980, Tango, by Zbigniew Rybczynski, to feature films made in computer graphics. The book also explores various facets of contemporary cinema, from Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, John Lasseter, as well as film authors who use animation resources in some of their works, such as Chris Marker and Peter Greenaway, to more underground figures, such as Ryan Larkin. In addition, the volume brings an extensive bibliography with many books unknown to us and a glossary with technical terms used in animation cinema.
 The Form Realized
 Author: Dean Luis Reis
 Publisher: Pimenta Filmes e Editions
 Savio Leite Translation
 247 pages.
 Format: 16 x 23cm (brochure)
 Year: 2020