The animation studies reader /
edited by Nichola Dobson, Annabelle Honess Roe, Amy Ratelle and Caroline Ruddell.
- New York ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
- xv, 336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Approaching animation and animation studies / The cinema of attractions: early film, its spectator and the avant-garde / Re-animating space / Realism and animation / The uncanny valley / Animation and performance / Animation and memory / Some thoughts on theory-practice relationships in animation studies / Absence, excess and epistemological expansion: towards a framework for the study of animated documentary / Experimental animation / Features and shorts / Advertising and public service films / Political animation and propaganda / TV animation / Animation and/as children's entertainment / Video games and animation / Race, resistance and violence in cartoons / We're Asian. More expected of us: the model minority and whiteness in King of the Hill / Transformers rescue bots: representation in disguise / Anime's bodies / Women in Disney's animated features 1989-2005 / Taking an appropriate line: exploring representations of disability within British mainstream animation / Lilly Husbands and Caroline Ruddell -- Tom Gunning -- Aylish Wood -- Mihaela Mihailova -- Lisa Bode -- Annabelle Honess Roe -- Victoria Grace Walden -- Paul Ward -- Annabelle Honess Roe -- Paul Taberham -- Christopher Holliday -- Malcolm Cook -- Eric Herhuth -- Nichola Dobson -- Amy Ratelle -- Chris Pallant -- Nicholas Sammond -- Alison Reiko Loader -- Nichola Dobson -- Rayna Denison -- Amy M. Davis -- 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"--