{"product_id":"politically-animated-9781487544423","title":"Politically Animated","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePolitically Animated\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNagtegaal illuminates the creative union of animated documentary and the comics medium curren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739693658455,"sku":"9781487544423","price":50.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487544423.jpg?v=1720052920","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/politically-animated-9781487544423","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}