Animating Film Theory
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 t...
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| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Animating Film Theory: An Introduction - Karen Beckman; I. Time and Space; 1. Animation and History - Esther Leslie; 2. Animating the Instant: The Secret Symmetry between Animation and Photography - Tom Gunning; 3. Polygraphic Photography and the Origins of 3-D Animation - Alexander R. Galloway; 4. "A Living, Developing Egg Is Present before You": Animation, Scientific Visualization, Modeling - Oliver Gaycken; II. Cinema and Animation
- 5. André Martin, Inventor of Animation Cinema: Prolegomena for a History of Terms - Hervé Joubert-Laurencin (Translated by Lucy Swanson)6. "First Principles" of Animation - Alan Cholodenko; 7. Animation, in Theory - Suzanne Buchan; III. The Experiment; 8. Film as Experiment in Animation: Are Films Experiments on Human Beings - Gertrud Koch, (Translated by Daniel Hendrickson); 9. Frame Shot: Vertov's Ideologies of Animation - Mihaela Mihailova and John MacKay; 10. Signatures of Motion: Len Lye's Scratch Films and the Energy of the Line - Andrew R. Johnston
- 11. Animating Copies: Japanese Graphic Design, the Xerox Machine, and Walter Benjamin - Yuriko Furuhata12. Framing the Postmodern: The Rhetoric of Animated Form in Experimental Identity-Politics Documentary Video in the 1980s and 1990s - Tess Takahashi; IV. Animation and the World; 13. Cartoon Film Theory: Imamura Taihei on Animation, Documentary, and Photography - Thomas LaMarre; 14. African American Representation through the Combination of Live Action and Animation - Christopher P. Lehman
- 15. Animating Uncommon Life: U.S. Military Malaria Films (1942-1945) and the Pacific Theater - Bishnupriya Ghosh16. Realism in the Animation Media Environment: Animation Theory from Japan - Marc Steinberg; 17. Some Observations Pertaining to Cartoon Physics; or, The Cartoon Cat in the Machine - Scott Bukatman; Bibliography; Contributors; Index