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 AardmanAnnabelle Honess RoeIdentity and Brand1. ‘All you do is call me, I’ll be anything you need’ Aardman Animations, Music Videos and CommercialsMalcolm Cook2. Music, Sound and Northernness in the Wallace and Gromit FilmsJoseph Darlington3. Lord and Master: Eccentricity, Nostalgia and Authority in the Work of Peter LordPaul Wells4. From Europe to Hollywood and Back Again: Aardman and its Studio Partners Christopher MeirCultural Contexts5. Aardman’s Early Shorts and the British Social Realist TraditionFatemeh Hosseini-Shakib6. A Darker Heartland: Otherness, Dysfunction and the Uncanny in Aardman’s Short filmsJane Batkin7. Washed Up: Animating Literary Corpses in The Pearce SistersNicholas Andrew Miller8. Wallace and Gromit and the British Fantasy Tradition Alexander SergeantProcess and Production9. Animation Storyboarding as Part of the Pre-Production Process: An Aardman Case StudyPaul Ward10. Life’s a Treat: Shaun, Timmy, Aardman and Children’s Television Linda Simensky11. Shaun the Sheep – Buster Keaton Reborn?Richard HaynesSurface and Performance12. Aardman’s Neo-Baroque: The Dual Nature of Special Effects in Aardman’s Feature Film ProductionThomas Walsh13. Performing Authenticity through Clay in the Wallace and Gromit FilmsLaura Ivins14. Between Plasticine and Pixel: Aardman’s Digital HandprintChristopher Holliday15. Aardman! In an Entanglement with CGI!Aylish Wood

In this book, the authors engage with all things Aardman through scholarly, diverse, accessible and ultimately intriguing approaches. It is essential reading for scholars, students and practitioners of stop motion animation and beyond.