Animating Truth

Nea Ehrlich is Lecturer in The Department of the Arts at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.

• IntroductionSection I: Starting Points: The Evidentiary Status of Animation as Documentary Imagery1. Why Now?2. Defining Animation and Animated Documents in Mixed RealitiesSection II: Animation and Technoculture: The Virtualization of Culture and Virtual Documentaries3. Screens, Virtuality and Materiality 4. Documenting Game Realities 5. In-Game Documentaries of Non-Game Realities6. Interactive Animated Documentaries: Documentary Games and VRSection III: The Power of Animation: Disputing the Aesthetics of ‘the Real’7. Encounters, Ethics and Empathy8. Conflicting Realisms: Animated Documentaries and Post-Truth EpilogueFilmographyBibliography

All in all, the book is recommended reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students who are looking for an updated overview of the status of animation and documentary (and the space in between) in contemporary Visual Culture. What is more, because of the strong interdisciplinary approach adopted, the book will be attractive to Media and Film scholars, as well as scholars within Game and Screen Studies, but also Computer Science.