Overview

100 historical and contemporary texts give a detailed insight into the last 150 years of animation studies in this seminal, four-volume reference work on the field. Beginning with the many definitions, or lack thereof, of animation, the set delves into the nature of animation production, explores how we can establish greater space within animation discourse for the consideration of broadcast and interactive animation, and gives a greater contextual understanding of the field of animation studies. Key themes are 'Authorship', 'Genre', 'Identity Politics', and 'Spectatorship', and the set is ordered in such a way that avoids imposing an overly simplistic chronological framework, thereby allowing debates that have developed over years (and even decades) to stand side by side. Each volume is separately introduced and the essays structured into coherent sections on specific themes

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Author:   Chris Pallant (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   2.934kg
ISBN:  

9781501305757

ISBN 10:   1501305751
Publication Date:   25 February 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Mixed media product
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Table of Contents

Volume 1: DEFINITION and FORM Introduction George Sifianos The Definition of Animation: A Letter from Norman McLaren in Animation Journal (4.1) 1995 (Spring): 62-66 Paul Ward Some Thoughts on Theory-Practice Relationships in Animation Studies in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1(2) 2006: 229 - 245 Alan Cholodenko (The) Death (of) the Animator, or: The Felicity of the Felix in Animation Studies Online Journal 2: 2007 Andrew Darley Bones of Contention: Thoughts on the Study of Animation in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2(1), 2007: 63-76 Alan Cholodenko Animation (Theory) as Poematic: A Reply to the Cognitivists in Animation Studies Online Journal 4: 2009 Donald Crafton The Veiled Genealogies of Animation and Cinema in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6(2), 2011: 93-110 Brian Wells Frame of Reference: Toward A Definition of Animation in Animation, Practice, Process & Production 1(1), 2011: 11-32 Omar O.L. Martinez Criteria for Defining Animation: A Revision of the Definition of Animation in the Advent of Digital Moving Images in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 10(1), 2015: 42-57 Paul Wells Validating the Animated Film. Toy stories, trade tattoos and Taiwan tigers: Or what's animation ever done for us? in Themanummer Animatie, Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis (Journal for Media History), 15(1), 2012: 5-24. Richard J. Leskosky Phenakistoscope: 19th Century Science Turned to Animation in Film History 5(2), 1993: 176-189 Laurent Mannoni and Ben Brewster The Phantasmogoria in Film History 8(4), 1996: 390-415 Malcolm Cook The lightning cartoon: Animation from music hall to cinema in Early Popular Visual Culture, 11:3, 2013: 237-254 Michael Frierson The Invention of Plasticine and the Use of Clay in Early Motion Pictures in Film History 5(2), 1993: 142-157 Phillippe Gauthier A Trick Question: Are Early Animated Drawings a Film Genre or a Special Effect? in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6(2), 2011: 163-175 John Randolph Bray and Earl Hurd Bray-Hurd: The Key Animation Patents in Film History, 2(3), 1988: 229-266 J.P. Telotte Ub Iwerk's (Multi)Plain Cinema in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1(1), 2006: 9-24 Cyril Lepot Stop Motion: From Plastic to Plasmatic Cinema in Animation, Practice, Process & Production 3(1+2), 2013: 133-148 Pat Power Animated Expressions: Expressive Style in 3D Computer Graphic Narrative Animation in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 4(2), 2009: 107-129 Tony Tarantini Pictures That Do Not Really Exist in Animation, Practice, Process & Production 1(2), 2012: 249-271 Aylish Wood Behind the Scenes: A Study of Autodesk Maya in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9(3), 2014: 317-332 Alison R. Loader The Anamorphic Cinema in Animation, Practice, Process & Production 1(2), 2012: 285-313 Lynn Tomlinson The Dance of the Live and the Animated: Performance Animation by Kathy Rose, Miwa Matreyek and Eva Hall in Animation, Practice, Process & Production 3(1+2), 2013:17-55 Drew Morton The unfortunates: towards a history and definition of the motion comic in Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 6(4), 2015: 347-366 Volume 2: CONTENT Introduction Grant Noble Young Children and Television: Some Selected Hypotheses and Findings in Screen 11(4-5), 1970: 31-47 Amy S. Lu What Race do They Represent and Does Mine Have Anything to do With It? Perceived Racial Categories of Anime Characters in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 4(2), 2009: 169-190 Ewan Kirkland The Politics of Powerpuff: Putting the 'Girl' into 'Girl Power' in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 5(1), 2010: 9-24 Irene Kotlarz 'The Birth of a Notion': Irene Kotlarz Examines the Representation of Blacks in the Animated Cartoon in Screen (21)9, 1983: 21-29 Alison R. Loader We're Asian, More Expected of Us: Representation, The Model Minority and Whiteness on King of the Hill in Animation Studies Online Journal 5, 2010: 16-25 Van Norris Taking an Appropriate Line: Exploring Representations of Disability within British Mainstream Animation in Animation Studies Online Journal 3, 2008: 67-76 Seth Giddings The circle of life: Nature and Representation in Disney's The Lion King in Third Text, 49, 1999-2000: 83-92 Hye Jean Chung The reanimation of the digital (un)dead, or how to regenerate bodies in digital cinema in Visual Studies, 30:1, 2015: 54-67 Gunnar Strom The Animated Documentary in Animation Journal (11) 2003: 46-63 Annabelle Honess Roe Uncanny Indexes: Rotoshopped Interviews as Documentary in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 7(1), 2012: 25-37 Omar Landesman and Roy Bendor Animated Recollection and Spectorial Experience in Waltz with Bashir in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6(3), 2011: 353-370 Victoria Grace Walden Animation: Textural Difference and the Materiality of Holocaust Memory in Animation Studies Online Journal 9, 2014: 1-15 Cristina Formenti The sincerest form of docudrama: re-framing the animated documentary in Studies in Documentary Film, 8.2, 2014: 103-115 Warren Buckland 'Between Science Fact and Science Fiction: Spielberg's Digital Dinosaurs, Possible Worlds, and the New Aesthetic Realism in Screen (40)2, 1999: 177-192 Matthew Butler and Lucie Joschko Final Fantasy and the Incredibles: Ultra-realistic Animation, Aesthetic Engagement and the Uncanny Valley in Animation Studies Online Journal 2, 2007: 55-63 Christian McCrea Explosive, Expulsive, Extraordinary: The Dimension Excess of Animated Bodies in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 3(1), 2008: 9-24 Rayna Denison Star-Spangled Ghibli: Star Voices in the American Versions of Hayao Miyazaki's Films in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 3(2), 2008: 129-146 Caroline Ruddell From the Cinematic to the 'Anime-ic': Issues of Movement in Anime in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 3(2), 2008: 113-128 Yang Feng and Jiwoo Park Bad Seed or Good Seed? A Content Analysis of the Main Antagonists in Walt Disney- and Studio Ghibli-Animated Films in Journal of Children and Media, 9.3, 2015: 368-385 Chuck Jones The Roadrunner and Other Characters in Cinema Journal, 8.2 (Spring, 1969): 10-16 Gunnar Strom The Two Golden Ages of Animated Music Video in Animation Studies Online Journal 2, 2007: 56-67 Pat Kirkham Vertigo (title sequence), Alfred Hitchcock (1958) in Design and Culture: The Journal of the Design Studies Forum 1:2, 2015: 218-222 Volume 3: CONTEXT Introduction Paula Callus Reading Animation through the Eyes of Anthropology: A Case Study of Sub-Saharan African Animation in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 7(2), 2012: 113-130 Laura U. Marks Taking a Line for a Walk, from the Abbasid Caliphate to Vector Graphics in Third Text, 23(3), 2009: 229-240 Chris Pallant Disney-Formalism: Rethinking 'Classic Disney' in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 5(3), 2010: 341-352 J.P. Telotte Ub Iwerk's (Multi)Plain Cinema in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1(1), 2006: 9-24 Harvey Deneroff We Can't Get Much Spinach! The Organisation and Implementation of the Fleischer Animation Strike in Film History 1 (1), 1987: 1-14 Donald Crafton The View from Termite Terrace: Caricature and Parody in Warner Bros Animation in Film History, 5(2), 1993: 204-230 Karl Cohen Toontown's Reds: HUAC's Investigation of Alleged Communists in the Animation Industry in Film History, 5(2) 1993: 190-203 Mark Langer Animatophilia, Cultural Production and Corporate Interests: The Case of Ren & Stimpy in Film History, 5(2) 1993: 125-141 Matt Stahl Cultural Labor's Democratic Deficits : Employment, Autonomy and Alienation in US Film Animation in Journal for Cultural Research, 14(3), 2010: 271-293 Lynne Perras Steadier, Happier and Quicker at the Work?: Women in Canadian Animation in Animation Studies Online Journal 3, 2008: 18-23 DanTorres and Lienors Torre Recording Australian Animation History: Critical Significance of Historical Research in Animation Studies Online Journal 2, 2007: 115-124 Paul Ward in British Animated Propaganda Cartoons of the First World War Issues of Topicality in Animation Journal 2003: 65-83 Lucie Joschko and Michael Morgan Learning from the Golden Age of Czechoslovak Animation: The Past as the Key to Unlocking Contemporary Issues in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 3(1), 2008: 66-84 Pierre Floquet What is (Not) so French in Les Triplettes de Belleville in Animation Studies Online Journal 1, 2006: 2-13 Mette Peters Murder in Raamsdonk Silhouette Film and Shadow Shows from the Netherlands in Animation Journal (7.1) 1998: 6-15 Hannes Rall Tradigital Mythmaking: New Asian Design Ideas for Animation in Animation Studies Online Journal 6, 2011: 14-25 Weihua Wu In Memory of Meishu Film: Chatachresis and Metaphor in Theorizing Chinese Animation in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 4(1), 2009: 31-54 Mary Ann Farquhar Monks and Monkey A Study of National Style in Chinese Animation in Animation Journal (2.1) 1993 (Spring): 4-27 Jian Cui The Pursuit of a National Style of Chinese Animation in Animation Journal 14, 2006: 44-61 Sheuo Hui Gan To be or Not to be: The Controversy in Japan over the Anime Label in Animation Studies Online Journal 4: 2009: 35-43 Xavier Minguez-Lopez Folktales and Other References in Toriyama's Dragon Ball in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9(1), 2014: 27-46 332 Joon-Yang Kim Critique of the New Historical Landscape of South Korean Animation in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1(1), 2006: 61-81 Zhi-Ming Su Reaching Out to Touch: Animation and Aboriginal Children in Taiwan in Animation Studies Online Journal 2: 2007: 110-114 Volume 4: KEY INDIVIDUALS Introduction Pierre Floquet Tex Avery's Comic Language: A Transgressive Interpretation of Hunting in Animation Journal (6.2) 1997: 22-41 William Moritz Jordan Belson: Last of the Great Masters in Animation Journal (8.1) 1999: 4-17 Vanessa Chang Animating the City: Street Art, Blu and the Poetics of Visual Encounter in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 8(3), 2013: 215-233 Cordelia Brown Flowerpot Men: The Haptic Image in Brian Cosgrove and Richard Hall's Animations in Animation Studies Online Journal 2: 2007: 64-74 Robin Allan Walt Disney and Europe in Visual Resources, 14(3), 1999: 275-295 John Canemaker Elfriede! On the Road with Mrs. Oskar Fischinger in Funnyworld, 1978 Tom Klein La Verne Harding: Hollywood's First Woman Animator in Animation Journal (3.1) 1994 (Spring): 54-67. Robin Allan Sylvia Holland: Disney Artist in Animation Journal (3.1) 1994 (Spring): 32-41. Howard Rieder Memories of Mr. Magoo in Cinema Journal, 8(2), 1969: 17-24 Sandra Law Putting Themselves in the Pictures Images of Women in the Work of Selected Female Animators in the UK Kevin O'Brien Chuck Jones and MGM: Reevaluating Tom and Jerry in Animation Journal (5.2) 1996: 80-84 Jennifer Blair Animation to Spare in Chris Landreth's and Ryan Larkin's Short Films in Screen (48)4, 2007: 46-63 J.P. Telotte Winsor McCay's Warped Spaces in Screen (48)4, 2007: 463-473 Nichola Dobson Dancing to rhythm of the music - Norman McLaren, the body and performance in Animation Studies Online Journal 10, 2015: 1-9 Kevin M. Moist and Michael Bartholow When Pigs Fly: Anime, Auterism and Miyazaki's Porco Rosso in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2(1), 2007: 27-42 Esther Leslie Loops and joins: Muybridge and the optics of animation in Early Popular Visual Culture, 11(1), 2013: 28-40 Musa Brooker Floyd Norman's Story: The Untold Tale of a True Animation Legend in Animation Journal (?.?) 2008: 4-45. Suzanne Buchan The Quay brothers: Choreographed Chiaroscuro, Enigmatic and Sublime in Film Quarterly, 51 (3), 1998 pp. 2-15. William Moritz Some Critical Perspectives on Lotte Reiniger in Animation Journal (5.2) 1996: 40-51 Glenn Myrent Emile Reynaud: First Motion Picture Cartoonist in Film History 3(3), 1989: 191-202 Paul Wells To Sonicity and Beyond! Gary Rydstrom and Quilting the Pixar Sound in Animation Journal 2009: 23-35 Laura Ivins-Hulley A Universe of Boundaries: Pixelated Performances in Jan Svankmajer's Food in Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 8(3), 2013: 267-282 Maureen Furniss John Whitney's Path to IBM in Animation Journal 2013: 26-46 Index

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Chris Pallant is senior lecturer in film and digital media at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He is the author of Demystifying Disney: A History of Disney Feature Animation (2011), has published in numerous journals, such as Film International, Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal and New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film. Pallant also co-organizes the UK animation festival, Canterbury Anifest, www.canterburyanifest.com.

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