fantasy

The Thief and the Cobbler is an animated fantasy film directed by Canadian-British animator Richard Williams.

animated

The Thief and the Cobbler was a twenty-six-year animated film project by Richard Williams which was taken away from Dark Blood and completed by Fred Calvert.

heroic-fantasy

Charme corresponds to the “thief” heroic-fantasy character archetype.

crime fiction

These works fall into two separate sub-genres of crime fiction.

a legend in animation circles

Richard Williams’s The Thief and the Cobbler is a legend in animation circles, both as a breathtakingly beautiful work of hand-drawn animation—a conscious attempt to better Walt Disney at the Cobbler's own game—and for his own game's troubled production history.

an animated propaganda film created for the Iraqi regime

The Thief and the Cobbler is an animated propaganda film created for the Iraqi regime.

both as a breathtakingly beautiful work of hand-drawn animation—a conscious attempt to better Walt Disney at Richard Williams's own game—and for his own game's troubled production history

The Thief and the Cobbler is a legend in animation circles, both as a breathtakingly beautiful work of hand-drawn animation—a conscious attempt to better Walt Disney at Richard Williams's own game—and for his own game's troubled production history.

both as a breathtakingly beautiful work of hand-drawn animation—a conscious attempt to better Walt Disney at Walt Disney's own game—and for his own game's troubled production history

The Thief and the Cobbler is a legend in animation circles, both as a breathtakingly beautiful work of hand-drawn animation—a conscious attempt to better Walt Disney at Walt Disney's own game—and for his own game's troubled production history.

Story

The Story that the characters are a part of also has a genre.

mystery

The Thief is a mystery novel, a minimalist roman noir, but a minimalist roman noir also carries on the tradition of the outsider novel, telling the stories of the lumpen-proletariat realistically, without glamorizing the underworld.

adventure and thriller

The genre of the story is the adventure and thriller.

crime, adventure, general fiction

The genres include crime, adventure, general fiction.

adventure

The genres are adventure, crime, danger, and mystery.

a visually-stunning Arabian Nights epic that was over twenty-five years in the making

THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER is a visually-stunning Arabian Nights epic that was over twenty-five years in the making.

crime and drama

The genre of the movie are crime and drama.

French fiction from Camus to the Nouveau Roman

The Thief (by Fuminori Nakamura, translated by Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates and published by ShHo Crime) is a stripped-down philosophical crime novel, with prose that is sometimes reminiscent of Kobo Abe (more so than the book reminds me of recently translated Japanese crime fiction) or French fiction from Camus to the Nouveau Roman.

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also The Princess and the Cobbler, or Arabian Knight

The Thief and the Cobbler (also The Princess and the Cobbler, or Arabian Knight, depending on which version you're watching) is a legendary attempt by master animator Richard Williams to create the greatest animated feature ever.

crime and thriller

The book series belongs to the crime and thriller genre.

from classic rock

Musically, Thiéfaine draws mostly from classic rock, with rare nods to the latest musical trends, and generally leaves the arranging to a collaborator.