UnknownDobson, Nichola
Bloomsbury Academic (New York, 2019) (eng) English9781501332609UnknownUnknownANIMATED TELEVISION PROGRAMS-HISTORY AND CRITICISM; UnknownThe Animation Studies Reader brings together both key writings within animation studies and new material in emerging areas of the field. The collection provides readers with seminal texts that ground animation studies within the contexts of theory and aesthetics, form and genre, and issues of representation. The first section collates key readings on animation theory, on how we might conceptualise animation, and on some of the fundamental qualities of animation. New material is also introduced in this section specifically addressing questions raised by the nature, style and materiality of animation. The second section outlines some of the main forms that animation takes, which includes discussions of genre. Although this section cannot be exhaustive, the material chosen is particularly useful as it provides samples of analysis that can illuminate some of the issues the first section of the book raises. The third section focuses on issues of representation and how the medium of animation might have an impact on how bodies, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity are represented. These representations can only be read through an understanding of the questions that the first two sections of the book raise; we can only decode these representations if we take into account form and genre, and theoretical conceptualisations such as visual pleasure, spectacle, the uncanny, realism etc.
Physical dimension
xvi, 336 p.23 cm.ill.
Summary / review / table of contents
Approaching animation and animation studies / Lilly Husbands and Caroline Ruddell --
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 --
Women in Disney's animated features 1989-2005 / Amy M. Davis --
Taking an appropriate line: exploring representations of disability within British mainstream animation / Van Norris.