A Reader in Animation Studies

Cartoons -- both from the classic Hollywood era and from more contemporary feature films and television series -- offer a rich field for detailed investigation and analysis. Contributors draw on theories and methodology from film, television, and media studies, art history and criticism, and feminism and gender studies.

Jane Pilling, freelance film programmer, journalist, and translator, also writes and teaches on film and animation, currently at the Royal College of Art in London. She recently made a six-part television series on European animation for UK television.

The Society for Animation Studies: A brief history

vii

Harvey Deneroff

Introduction

ix

Fayne Pilling

New technologies

What is animation and who needs to know? As eassy on definitions

1

(4)

Philip Kelly Denslow

`Reality' effects in computer animation

5

(11)

Lev Manovich

Second-order realism and post-modern aesthetics in computer animation

16

(9)

Andy Darley

Text and context: Analyses of individual films

The Quay brothers' The Epic of Gilgames and the `metaphysics of obscenity'

25

(13)

Steve Weiner

Narrative strategies for resistance and protest in Eastern European animation

38

(10)

William Moritz

Putting themselves in the pictures: Images of women in the work of Joanna Quinn, Candy Guard and Alison de Vere

48

(23)

Sandra Law

An analysis of Susan Pitt's Asparagus and Joanna Priestley's All My Relations

71

(11)

Sharon Couzin

Clay animation comes out of the inkwell: The Fleischer brothers and clay animation

82

(11)

Michael frierson

Bartosch's The Idea

93

(11)

William Moritz

Norman McLaren and Jules Engel: Post-modernists

104

(8)

William Moritz

Disney, Warner Bros. and Japanese animation

112

(25)

Luca Raffaelli

Contemporary cartoons and cultural studies

The thief of Buena Vista; Disney's Aladdin and Orientalism

137

(6)

Leslie Felperin

Animatophilia, cultural production and corporate interests: The case of Ren & Stimpy

143

(20)

Mark Langer

Theoretical approaches

Francis Bacon and Walt Disney revisited

163

(14)

Simon Pummell

Body consciousness in the filsm of Jan Svankmajer

177

(18)

Paul Wells

Eisenstein and Stokes on Disney: Film animation and omnipotence

195

(8)

Michael O'Pray

Towards a post-modern animated discourse: Bakhtin, intertextuality and the cartoon carnival

203

(18)

Terrance R. Lindvall

J. Matthew Melton

(Rewriting) history

Restoring the aesthetics of early abstract films

221

(7)

William Moritz

Resistance and subversion in animated films of the Nazi era: The case of Hans Fischerkoesen

228

(13)

William Moritz

European influences on early Disney feature films

241

(20)

Robin Allan

Norm Ferguson and the Latin American films of Walt Disney

261

(8)

J.B. Kaufman

Notes on the contributors

269

(2)

List of SAS Conference papers -- 1989 to 1996

271

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