This book discusses developments and continuities in experimental animation that, since Robert Russet and Cecile Starr’s Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art (1976), has proliferated in the context of expanded cinema, performance and live ‘making’ and is today exhibited in galleries, public sites and online. With reference to historical, critical, phenomenological and inter-disciplinary approaches, international researchers offer new and diverse methodologies for thinking through these myriad animation practices. This volume addresses fundamental questions of form, such as drawing and the line, but also broadens out to encompass topics such as the inter-medial, post-humanism, the real, fakeness and fabrication, causation, new forms of synthetic space, ecology, critical re-workings of cartoons, and process as narrative. This book will appeal to cross and inter-disciplinary researchers, animation practitioners, scholars, teachers and students from Fine Art, Film andMedia Studies, Philosophy and Aesthetics.
Winner of the 2018-2019 Norman McLaren/Evelyn Lambart Award for Best Scholarly Book in Animation Offers arguments and insights from both practical and theoretical perspectives Engages the novel methodology of crossing experimental animation with expanded cinema Includes B&W and full colour images of all works discussed Is the only collection dedicated exclusively to the topic since 1976
Vicky Smith
cartoons expanded cinema performance body process the frame aesthetics post 1976