Animation: Critical and Primary Sources(Critical and Primary Sources)

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

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 Strøm “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 Strøm “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
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