The Animation Studies Reader

Nichola Dobson is a teaching fellow in design and screen cultures at Edinburgh College of Art, UK. Founding editor of Animation Studies (2006 - 2011) and Animation Studies 2.0 (2012- present). Bella Honess Roe is a lecturer at the University of Surrey, UK, where she is the programme director for Film Studies. Her scholarship and teaching focuses on animation, documentary and popular culture more broadly. Amy Ratelle is the Research Coordinator for the Semaphore Research Cluster on Mobile and Pervasive Computing, at the University of Toronto, Canada. Caroline Ruddell is Lecturer in Film and TV Studies at Brunel University, London, UK. She is Reviews Editor for the animation: an interdisciplinary journal and sits on various Editorial Boards.

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List of Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Nichola Dobson, Annabelle Honess Roe, Amy Ratelle and Caroline Ruddell

Section One: Theory, Philosophy, Concepts

1. Approaching Animation and Animation Studies
Caroline Ruddell (Brunel University London, UK) and Lilly Husbands (University of Arts London, UK and Middlesex University, UK)

2. The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde
Tom Gunning (University of Chicago, USA)

3. Re-Animating Space
Aylish Wood (University of Kent, UK)

4. Realism and Animation
Mihaela Mihailova (Michigan State University, USA)

5. The Uncanny Valley
Lisa Bode (University of Queensland, Australia)

6. Animation and Performance
Annabelle Honess Roe (University of Surrey, UK)

7. Animation and Memory
Victoria Grace Walden (University of Sussex, UK)

8. Some Thoughts on Theory-Practice Relationships in Animation Studies
Paul Ward (Arts University Bournemouth, UK)


Section Two: Forms and Genres

9. Absence, Excess and Epistemological Expansion: Towards a Framework for the Study of Animated Documentary
Annabelle Honess Roe (University of Surrey, UK)

10. Experimental Animation
Paul Taberham (Arts University Bournemouth, UK)

11. Features and Shorts
Christopher Holliday (King's College London, UK)

12. Advertising and Public Service Films
Malcolm Cook (University of Southampton, UK)

13. Political Animation and Propaganda
Eric Herhuth (Tulane University, USA)

14. TV Animation
Nichola Dobson (Edinburgh College of Art, UK)

15. Animation and/as Children’s Entertainment
Amy Ratelle (editor of Animation Studies)

16. Video Games and Animation
Chris Pallant (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK)

Section Three: Representation: Frames and Contexts

17. Race, Resistance and Violence in Cartoons
Nicholas Sammond (University of Toronto, Canada)

18. We’re Asian. More Expected of Us: The Model Minority and Whiteness in King of the Hill
Alison Reiko Loader (Concordia University, Canada)

19. Transformers Rescue Bots: Representation in Disguise
Nichola Dobson (Edinburgh College of Art, UK)

20. Anime’s Bodies
Rayna Denison (University of East Anglia, UK)

21. Disney Films 1989-2005: The “Eisner” Era
Amy M. Davis (University of Hull, UK)

22. Taking an Appropriate Line: Exploring Representations of Disability within British Mainstream Animation
Van Norris (University of Portsmouth, UK)

Index