Description
Book SynopsisProvides 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. This title offers a collection of reanimates and expands film studies by taking the concept of animation seriously.
Trade Review"This fecund, vivacious collection will be a vital resource for those interested in film animation." -- T. Lindvall * Choice *
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Animating Film Theory encompasses a wide concern for moving images and underexplored theoretical and aesthetic issues that thinking through and about animation opens up for readers.” -- Amanda Egbe * Leonardo Reviews *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Animating Film Theory: An Introduction / Karen Beckman 1
Part I: Time and Space
1. Animation and History / Esther Leslie 25
2. Animating the Instant: The Secret Symmetry between Animation and Photography / Tom Gunning 37
3. Polygraphic Photography and the Origins of 3-D Animation / Alexander G. Galloway 54
4. "A Living, Developing Egg Is Present before You": Animation, Scientific Visualization, Modeling / Oliver Gaycken 68
Part II. Cinema and Animation
5. André Martin, Inventor of Animation Cinema: Prolegomena for a History of Terms / Hervé Joubert-Laurencin; Translated by Lucy Swanson 85
6. "First Principles" of Animation / Alan Cholodenko 98
7. Animation, in Theory / Susanne Buchan 111
Part III: The Experiment
8. Film as Experiment in Animation: Are Films Experiments on Human Beings? / Gertrud Koch; Translated by Daniel Hendrickson 131
9. Frame Shot: Vertov's Ideologies of Animation / Mihaela Mihailova and John MacKay 145
10. Signatures of Motion: Len Lye's Scratch Films and the Energy of the Line / Andrew R. Johnston 167
11. Animating Copies: Japanese Graphic Design, the Xerox Machine, and Walter Benjamin / Yuriko Furuhata 181
12. Framing the Postmodern: The Rhetoric of Animated Form in Experimental Identity-Politics Documentary Video in the 1980s and 1990s / Tess Takahashi 201
Part IV: Animation and the World
13. Cartoon Film Theory: Imamura Taihei on Animation, Documentary, and Photography / Thomas LaMarre 221
14. African American Representation through the Combination of Live Action and Animation / Christopher P. Lehman 252
15. Animating Uncommon Life: U.S. Military Malaria Films (1942–1945) and the Pacific Theater / Bishnupriya Ghosh 264
16. Realism in the Animation Media Environment: Animation Theory from Japan / Marc Steinberg 287
17. Some Observations Pertaining to Cartoon Physics; or, The Cartoon Cat in the Machine / Scott Bukatman 301
Bibliography 317
Contributors 337
Index 343
