Animating film theory / Karen Beckman, editor.
"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 contributor...
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2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Animating film theory: an introduction / Karen Beckham
- Part I. Time and space : 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
- Part II. Cinema and animation : André Martin, inventor of animation cinema: prolegomena for a history of terms / Hervé Joubert-Laurencin; translated by Lucy Swanson
- "First principles" of animation / Alan Cholodenko
- Animation, in theory / Suzanne Buchan
- Part III. The experiment : 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
- Part IV. Animation and the world : 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.