Pervasive Animation

Description

This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic experimental and independent shorts to digital animation and installation. The collection - that is also a philosophy of animation - foregrounds new critical perspectives on animation, connects them to historical and contemporary philosophical and theoretical contexts and production practice, and expands the existing canon. Throughout, contributors offer an interdisciplinary roadmap of new directions in film and animation studies, discussing animation in relationship to aesthetics, ideology, philosophy, historiography, visualization, genealogies, spectatorship, representation, technologies, and material culture. Cover Pervasive Animation Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of plates and figures Acknowledgments Introduction: pervasive animation Section one: mechanics and magic 1. Expanded animation: a short genealogy in words and images 2. The transforming image: the roots of animation in metamorphosis and motion Section two: material culture 3. Animation’s petrified unrest 4. Ecocritique and the materialities of animation Section three: life and non-life 5. Coming to life: cartoon animals and natural philosophy 6. A cinema of apprehension: a third entelechy of the vitalist machine 7. The east asian post-human prometheus: animated mechanical ‘others’ Section four: history, documentary and truth 8. Socialimagestics and cinemasymbiosis: the materiality of a-realism 9. Reanimator: embodied history, and the post-cinema trace in ken jacobs’ ‘temporal composites’ 10. Animated documentaries: aesthetics, politics and viewer engagement Section five: display, process and practice 11. Take the b train: reconstructing the proto-cinematic apparatus 12. Spaces of wonder: animation and museology 13. Animation studies as an interdisciplinary teaching field List of contributors Index Plates