Aardman Animations

Annabelle Honess Roe is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Surrey, UK. She is the author of Animated Documentary (2013) which won the 2015 Society for Animation Studies McLaren-Lambart Award for Best Book. She is co-editor of Vocal Projections: Voices in Documentary (Bloomsbury, 2018) and The Animation Studies Reader (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Introduction: Understanding Aardman
Annabelle Honess Roe

Identity and Brand
1. ‘All you do is call me, I’ll be anything you need’ Aardman Animations, Music Videos and Commercials
Malcolm Cook
2. Music, Sound and Northernness in the Wallace and Gromit Films
Joseph Darlington
3. Lord and Master: Eccentricity, Nostalgia and Authority in the Work of Peter Lord
Paul Wells
4. From Europe to Hollywood and Back Again: Aardman and its Studio Partners
Christopher Meir

Cultural Contexts
5. Aardman’s Early Shorts and the British Social Realist Tradition
Fatemeh Hosseini-Shakib
6. A Darker Heartland: Otherness, Dysfunction and the Uncanny in Aardman’s Short films
Jane Batkin
7. Washed Up: Animating Literary Corpses in The Pearce Sisters
Nicholas Andrew Miller
8. Wallace and Gromit and the British Fantasy Tradition
Alexander Sergeant

Process and Production
9. Animation Storyboarding as Part of the Pre-Production Process: An Aardman Case Study
Paul Ward
10. Life’s a Treat: Shaun, Timmy, Aardman and Children’s Television
Linda Simensky
11. Shaun the Sheep – Buster Keaton Reborn?
Richard Haynes

Surface and Performance
12. Aardman’s Neo-Baroque: The Dual Nature of Special Effects in Aardman’s Feature Film Production
Thomas Walsh
13. Performing Authenticity through Clay in the Wallace and Gromit Films
Laura Ivins
14. Between Plasticine and Pixel: Aardman’s Digital Handprint
Christopher Holliday
15. Aardman! In an Entanglement with CGI!
Aylish Wood