Animating Film Theory Karen Redrobe Beckman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Redrobe, Karen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 p.)

Place of Publication:

Duke University Press 2014

[s.l.] : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts in cinema and media studies: animation and film theory. For the most part, animation has been excluded from the purview of film theory. The contributors to this collection consider the reasons for this marginalization while also bringing attention to key historical contributions across a wide range of animation practices, geographic and linguistic terrains, and historical periods. They delve deep into questions of how animation might best be understood, as well as how it relates to concepts such as the still, the moving image, the frame, animism, and utopia. The contributors take on the kinds of theoretical questions that have remained underexplored because, as Karen Beckman argues, scholars of cinema and media studies have allowed themselves to be constrained by too narrow a sense of what cinema is. This collection reanimates and expands film studies by taking the concept of animation seriously. Contributors. Karen Beckman, Suzanne Buchan, Scott Bukatman, Alan Cholodenko, Yuriko Furuhata, Alexander R. Galloway, Oliver Gaycken, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Tom Gunning, Andrew R. Johnston, Hervé Joubert-Laurencin, Gertrud Koch, Thomas LaMarre, Christopher P. Lehman, Esther Leslie, John MacKay, Mihaela Mihailova, Marc Steinberg, Tess Takahashi

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Animating Film Theory: An Introduction

I : : Time and Space

1 : : Animation and History

2 : : Animating the Instant: The Secret Symmetry between Animation and Photography

3 : : Polygraphic Photography and the Origins of 3-D Animation

4 : : “A Living, Developing Egg Is Present before You”: Animation, Scientific Visualization, Modeling

II : : Cinema and Animation

5 : : André Martin, Inventor of Animation Cinema: Prolegomena for a History of Terms

6 : : “First Principles” of Animation

7 : : Animation, in Theory

III : : The Experiment

8 : : Film as Experiment in Animation: Are Films Experiments on Human Beings?

9 : : Frame Shot: Vertov’s Ideologies of Animation

10 : : Signatures of Motion: Len Lye’s Scratch Films and the Energy of the Line

11 : : Animating Copies: Japanese Graphic Design, the Xerox Machine, and Walter Benjamin

12 : : Framing the Postmodern: The Rhetoric of Animated Form in Experimental Identity-Politics Documentary Video in the 1980s and 1990s

IV : : Animation and the World

13 : : Cartoon Film Theory: Imamura Taihei on Animation, Documentary, and Photography

14 : : African American Representation through the Combination of Live Action and Animation

15 : : Animating Uncommon Life: U.S. Military Malaria Films (1942–1945) and the Pacific Theater

16 : : Realism in the Animation Media Environment: Animation Theory from Japan

17 : : Some Observations Pertaining to Cartoon Physics; or, The Cartoon Cat in the Machine

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478091950

1478091959

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access