Animating Truth: Documentary and Visual Culture in the 21st Century

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Confronting shifts in the status and aesthetics of the real, Nea Ehrlich analyses how contemporary technoculture has transformed the relationship of animation to documentary by mapping out two parallel trends: the increased use of animation within documentary or non-fiction contexts, and the increasingly pervasive use of non-photorealistic animation within digital media. As the virtual becomes another aspect of our contemporary mixed reality (physical and virtual), the book aims to understand how this visual paradigm shift influences viewers, both ethically and politically, and questions the wider ramifications of this transformation in non-fiction aesthetics. Animating Truth Copyright Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Starting Points: The Evidentiary Status of Animation as Documentary Imagery One Why Now? Two Defining Animation and Animated Documents in Contemporary Mixed Realities Part II Animation and Technoculture: The Virtualisation of Culture and Virtual Documentaries Three The Virtualisation of Culture: Screens, Virtuality and Materiality Four Documenting Game Realities Five In-game Documentaries of Non-game Realities Six Interactive Animated Documentaries: Documentary Games and VR Part III The Power of Animation: Disputing the Aesthetics of ‘the Real’ Seven Encounters, Ethics and Empathy Eight Conflicting Realisms: Animated Documentaries and Post-truth Epilogue Filmography Bibliography Index