Animating film theory / / Karen Beckman, editor.

• TeilnehmendeR: Beckman, Karen Redrobe, 1971-
• Place / Publishing House: Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (370 pages) :; illustrations

Table of Contents

Animation and history / Esther Leslie -- Animating the instant : the secret symmetry between animation and photography / Tom Gunning -- Polygraphic photography and the origins of 3-D animation / Alexander R. Galloway -- "A living, developing egg is present before you" : animation, scientific visualization, modeling / Oliver Gaycken -- Andre Martin, inventor of animation cinema : prolegomena for a history of terms / Herve Joubert-Laurencin; translated by Lucy Swanson -- "First principles" of animation / Alan Cholodenko -- Animation, in theory / Suzanne Buchan -- Film as experiment in animation : are films experiments on human beings? / Gertrud Koch; translated by Daniel Hendrickson -- Frame shot : Vertov's ideologies of animation / Mihaela Mihailova and John MacKay -- Signatures of motion : Len Lye's scratch films and the energy of the line / Andrew R. Johnston -- Animating copies : Japanese graphic design, the Xerox machine, and Walter Benjamin / Yuriko Furuhata -- Framing the postmodern : the rhetoric of animated form in experimental identity-politics documentary video in the 1980s and 1990s / Tess Takahashi -- Cartoon film theory : Imamura Taihei on animation, documentary, and photography / Thomas LaMarre -- African American representation through the combination of live action and animation / Christopher P. Lehman -- Animating uncommon life : U.S. Military malaria films (1942-1945) and the Pacific theater / Bishnupriya Ghosh -- Realism in the animation media environment : animation theory from Japan / Marc Steinberg -- Some observations pertaining to cartoon physics; or, The cartoon cat in the machine / Scott Bukatman.