Animated documentary / Annabelle Honess Roe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Honess Roe, Annabelle.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Animated films--History and criticism.

Animated films.

Physical Description:

viii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Animation and documentary may seem an odd couple, but Animated Documentary shows how the use of animation as a representational strategy for documentary enhances and expands the realm of nonfiction film and television. From prehistory to states of mind, animation can show and evoke things that elude live-action. The current boom in animated documentary production is situated in the historical context of the cross-pollination of animation and documentary, before exploring the different ways animation functions in the animated documentary. Through analyzing films and television programmes such as Waltz With Bashir and Walking With Dinosaurs, this volume - the first to be published on this fascinating topic - demonstrates that while animation might at first seem to destabilize documentary's claim to represent reality, the opposite is in fact the case. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction. Animation and documentary's shared history

Scope and organisation

Representational strategies. How animation is used in animated documentary

The ontology of animated documentary

Digital realities. Dino-docs and strategies of visual and aural authentication

Tracing the sights and sounds of reality in Rotoshop and Chicago

Paratextual authentication

The excess of animated realism

Animated interviews. Uncanny bodies

Absence as representational strategy

The expressive power of the disembodied voice

The world in here. More than the interview seen: Sheila Sofian's illustrated interviews

Inside out: animating subjective experience

Hybrids of reality

Animated awareness

Animated memories. (Dis)continuities: the self in history

The unspoken and the forgotten: the trauma in/of history in Silence and Waltz with Bashir

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137017451

1137017457

OCLC:

829386953