Description
Book SynopsisPolitically Animated studies the convergence of animation and actuality within films, television series, and digital shorts from across the Spanish-speaking world. It interrogates the many ways in which animation as a stylistic tool and storytelling device participates in political projects underpinning an array of non-fiction works.
The case studies in the book cover a diverse geographical scope, including Spain, Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico. They critically analyse different works such as feature-length animated documentary films, a work of animated journalism, a short animated essay, and micro-short episodes from a televised animated documentary series. Jennifer Nagtegaal employs the term politically animated in reference to the ideological implications of choosing specific techniques and styles of animation within certain socio-historical and cultural contexts.
Nagtegaal illuminates the creative union of animated documentary and the comics medium curren
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Towards Expansion and Liberation in the Field of Animated Documentary 1. Animating Agency: Children’s Articulated and Embodied Politics in Jairo Carrillo and Oscar Andrade’s Pequeñas voces / Little Voices (2010) 2. What’s in a(n) “Cómic Animado” (Animated Comic)? Poetics, Politics, and Personal Myths of Peronism in María Seoane’s Eva de la Argentina / Eva from Argentina (2011) 3. Animating Autobiography: Historical Memory and Catharsis in Manuel H. Martín’s Graphic Novel Documentary 30 años de oscuridad / 30 Years of Darkness (2012) 4. Simply A-musing: Aleix Saló’s Españistan / Spainistan (2011) as Animated Journalism in Spain’s Comic Public Sphere 5. Tracing Cultural Continuities: Rotoscope, Archons, and Archive 2.0 in Victor Orozco’s Essayistic Reality 2.0 (2012) 6. In Uncharted Waters and Totally Unmoored: The Transmedial Documentary Project Cuentos de viejos / Old Folks’ Tales (2013) Notes Bibliography Index
