Karen Redrobe (formerly Beckman) is the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Cinema and Modern Media in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis and Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism and coeditor (with Jean Ma) of Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography, all also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments ixAnimating Film Theory: An Introduction / Karen Beckman 1Part I: Time and Space 1. Animation and History / Esther Leslie 252. Animating the Instant: The Secret Symmetry between Animation and Photography / Tom Gunning 373. Polygraphic Photography and the Origins of 3-D Animation / Alexander G. Galloway 544. "A Living, Developing Egg Is Present before You": Animation, Scientific Visualization, Modeling / Oliver Gaycken 68Part II. Cinema and Animation 5. André Martin, Inventor of Animation Cinema: Prolegomena for a History of Terms / Hervé Joubert-Laurencin; Translated by Lucy Swanson 856. "First Principles" of Animation / Alan Cholodenko 987. Animation, in Theory / Susanne Buchan 111Part III: The Experiment 8. Film as Experiment in Animation: Are Films Experiments on Human Beings? / Gertrud Koch; Translated by Daniel Hendrickson 1319. Frame Shot: Vertov's Ideologies of Animation / Mihaela Mihailova and John MacKay 14510. Signatures of Motion: Len Lye's Scratch Films and the Energy of the Line / Andrew R. Johnston 16711. Animating Copies: Japanese Graphic Design, the Xerox Machine, and Walter Benjamin / Yuriko Furuhata 18112. Framing the Postmodern: The Rhetoric of Animated Form in Experimental Identity-Politics Documentary Video in the 1980s and 1990s / Tess Takahashi 201Part IV: Animation and the World 13. Cartoon Film Theory: Imamura Taihei on Animation, Documentary, and Photography / Thomas LaMarre 22114. African American Representation through the Combination of Live Action and Animation / Christopher P. Lehman 25215. Animating Uncommon Life: U.S. Military Malaria Films (1942–1945) and the Pacific Theater / Bishnupriya Ghosh 26416. Realism in the Animation Media Environment: Animation Theory from Japan / Marc Steinberg 28717. Some Observations Pertaining to Cartoon Physics; or, The Cartoon Cat in the Machine / Scott Bukatman 301Bibliography 317Contributors 337Index 343

"This fecund, vivacious collection will be a vital resource for those interested in film animation."   - T. Lindvall (Choice) “Animating Film Theory encompasses a wide concern for moving images and underexplored theoretical and aesthetic issues that thinking through and about animation opens up for readers.” - Amanda Egbe (Leonardo Reviews)

Karen Redrobe (formerly Beckman) is the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Cinema and Modern Media in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis and Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism and coeditor (with Jean Ma) of Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography, all also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments ixAnimating Film Theory: An Introduction / Karen Beckman 1Part I: Time and Space 1. Animation and History / Esther Leslie 252. Animating the Instant: The Secret Symmetry between Animation and Photography / Tom Gunning 373. Polygraphic Photography and the Origins of 3-D Animation / Alexander G. Galloway 544. "A Living, Developing Egg Is Present before You": Animation, Scientific Visualization, Modeling / Oliver Gaycken 68Part II. Cinema and Animation 5. André Martin, Inventor of Animation Cinema: Prolegomena for a History of Terms / Hervé Joubert-Laurencin; Translated by Lucy Swanson 856. "First Principles" of Animation / Alan Cholodenko 987. Animation, in Theory / Susanne Buchan 111Part III: The Experiment 8. Film as Experiment in Animation: Are Films Experiments on Human Beings? / Gertrud Koch; Translated by Daniel Hendrickson 1319. Frame Shot: Vertov's Ideologies of Animation / Mihaela Mihailova and John MacKay 14510. Signatures of Motion: Len Lye's Scratch Films and the Energy of the Line / Andrew R. Johnston 16711. Animating Copies: Japanese Graphic Design, the Xerox Machine, and Walter Benjamin / Yuriko Furuhata 18112. Framing the Postmodern: The Rhetoric of Animated Form in Experimental Identity-Politics Documentary Video in the 1980s and 1990s / Tess Takahashi 201Part IV: Animation and the World 13. Cartoon Film Theory: Imamura Taihei on Animation, Documentary, and Photography / Thomas LaMarre 22114. African American Representation through the Combination of Live Action and Animation / Christopher P. Lehman 25215. Animating Uncommon Life: U.S. Military Malaria Films (1942–1945) and the Pacific Theater / Bishnupriya Ghosh 26416. Realism in the Animation Media Environment: Animation Theory from Japan / Marc Steinberg 28717. Some Observations Pertaining to Cartoon Physics; or, The Cartoon Cat in the Machine / Scott Bukatman 301Bibliography 317Contributors 337Index 343

"This fecund, vivacious collection will be a vital resource for those interested in film animation."   - T. Lindvall (Choice) “Animating Film Theory encompasses a wide concern for moving images and underexplored theoretical and aesthetic issues that thinking through and about animation opens up for readers.” - Amanda Egbe (Leonardo Reviews)

Karen Redrobe (formerly Beckman) is the Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Cinema and Modern Media in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis and Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism and coeditor (with Jean Ma) of Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography, all also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments ixAnimating Film Theory: An Introduction / Karen Beckman 1Part I: Time and Space 1. Animation and History / Esther Leslie 252. Animating the Instant: The Secret Symmetry between Animation and Photography / Tom Gunning 373. Polygraphic Photography and the Origins of 3-D Animation / Alexander G. Galloway 544. "A Living, Developing Egg Is Present before You": Animation, Scientific Visualization, Modeling / Oliver Gaycken 68Part II. Cinema and Animation 5. André Martin, Inventor of Animation Cinema: Prolegomena for a History of Terms / Hervé Joubert-Laurencin; Translated by Lucy Swanson 856. "First Principles" of Animation / Alan Cholodenko 987. Animation, in Theory / Susanne Buchan 111Part III: The Experiment 8. Film as Experiment in Animation: Are Films Experiments on Human Beings? / Gertrud Koch; Translated by Daniel Hendrickson 1319. Frame Shot: Vertov's Ideologies of Animation / Mihaela Mihailova and John MacKay 14510. Signatures of Motion: Len Lye's Scratch Films and the Energy of the Line / Andrew R. Johnston 16711. Animating Copies: Japanese Graphic Design, the Xerox Machine, and Walter Benjamin / Yuriko Furuhata 18112. Framing the Postmodern: The Rhetoric of Animated Form in Experimental Identity-Politics Documentary Video in the 1980s and 1990s / Tess Takahashi 201Part IV: Animation and the World 13. Cartoon Film Theory: Imamura Taihei on Animation, Documentary, and Photography / Thomas LaMarre 22114. African American Representation through the Combination of Live Action and Animation / Christopher P. Lehman 25215. Animating Uncommon Life: U.S. Military Malaria Films (1942–1945) and the Pacific Theater / Bishnupriya Ghosh 26416. Realism in the Animation Media Environment: Animation Theory from Japan / Marc Steinberg 28717. Some Observations Pertaining to Cartoon Physics; or, The Cartoon Cat in the Machine / Scott Bukatman 301Bibliography 317Contributors 337Index 343

"This fecund, vivacious collection will be a vital resource for those interested in film animation."   - T. Lindvall (Choice) “Animating Film Theory encompasses a wide concern for moving images and underexplored theoretical and aesthetic issues that thinking through and about animation opens up for readers.” - Amanda Egbe (Leonardo Reviews)