Animation, in theory
Book chapter
Buchan, S. 2014. Animation, in theory. in: Beckman, K. (ed.) Animating Film Theory Durham and London Duke University Press. pp. 111-127
Chapter title | Animation, in theory |
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Authors | Buchan, S. |
Abstract | Most of us today are aware of the many ways animation has infiltrated our visual culture. Exposure and access to animation for scholars and the public – broadcast TV, creative computer programmes, online archives, new media platforms – have dramatically increased. While animation studies has been active for over 50 years, film studies is only beginning to deeply engage with a cinematic form that has more to do with sculpture, algorithms or painting than with the genres of narrative cinema. For over 25 years, Buchan has examined film theory for gaps and queries that seemed to address animation – or not. These trawled fragments formed the basis for animation: an interdisciplinary journal, published since 2006. The essay traces the origins and intellectual genesis of the journal, locating this in a historical and theoretical framework that, with some exceptions, spans the 1950s to mid 2000s. In doing so, Buchan takes the 'long view' – without Plato no Gilles Deleuze, without Emile Cohl no Wall-E, and in her view without Jean Mitry, Heinrich von Kleist, Noël Carroll and Stanley Cavell, no animation ‘theory’. |
Keywords | animation theory, animation aesthetics, film theory, animation: an interdisciplinary journal; animation studies |
Research Group | Electronic and Digital Arts cluster |
Page range | 111-127 |
Book title | Animating Film Theory |
Editors | Beckman, K. |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Place of publication | Durham and London |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9780822356400 |
Electronic | 9780822376811 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 07 Mar 2014 |
21 Mar 2014 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 19 Dec 2014 |
Output status | Published |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822376811-008 |
Language | English |
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