The animation studies reader / edited by Nichola Dobson, Annabelle Honess Roe, Amy Ratelle and Caroline Ruddell. - xv, 336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Approaching animation and animation studies / Caroline Ruddell & Lilly Husbands -- The cinema of attractions: early film, its spectator and the avant-garde / Tom Gunning -- Re-animating space / Aylish Wood -- Realism and animation / Mihaela Mihailova -- The uncanny valley / Lisa Bode -- Animation and performance / Annabelle Honess Roe -- Animation and memory / Victoria Grace Walden -- Some thoughts on theory-practice relationships in animation studies / Paul Ward -- Absence, excess and epistemological expansion: towards a framework for the study of animated documentary / Annabelle Honess Roe -- Experimental animation / Paul Taberham -- Features and shorts / Christopher Holliday -- Advertising and public service films / Malcolm Cook -- Political animation and propaganda / Eric Herhuth -- TV animation / Nichola Dobson -- Animation and/as children's entertainment / Amy Ratelle -- Video games and animation / Chris Pallant -- Race, resistance and violence in cartoons / Nicholas Sammond -- We're Asian. more expected of us: the model minority and whiteness in King of the Hill / Alison Reiko Loader -- Transformers rescue bots: representation in disguise / Nichola Dobson -- Anime's bodies / Rayna Denison -- Disney films 1989-2005: the "Eisner" era / Amy M. Davis -- Taking an appropriate line: exploring representations of disability within British mainstream animation / Van Norris.

"The first collection of definitive texts that explores and examines key areas of animation studies through three points of focus: theoretical approaches; form and genre; issues of representation"--



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Animated films--History and criticism.
Animated television programs--History and criticism.

NC1765 / .A544 2018

791.4334