Animation and Memory

Maarten van Gageldonk is a lecturer in Cultural Studies and Cultural History at the ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem, the Netherlands, as well as a lecturer at the HAN University of Applied Sciences in Nijmegen. He is also the lead programmer for the Kaboom Animation Festival in Amsterdam. Ali Shobeiri is Assistant Professor of Photography at Leiden University in the Netherlands. His upcoming monograph is titled: Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography. László Munteán is Assistant Professor with a double appointment in Cultural Studies and American Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is co-editor of Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture (2017).

• INTRODUCTION.- László Munteán, Ali Shobeiri, Maarten van Gageldonk.- PART I MEMORY AND MATERIALITY.- 1.Memoria Rerum: Animated Materiality, Memory and Amnesia.- Suzanne Buchan.- 2.Collaging Cultural Memory: Appropriation, Memory and Gender in the Films of Stacey Steers.- Maarten van Gageldonk.- 3.Animating Amnesia: The Materiality of Forgetting in Izabela Plucinska’s Liebling.- László Munteán.- PART II ANIMATION TECHNIQUES AND MEMORY.- 4.A Printing Machine for the Memory’: Stillness, Metamorphosis, and the Poiesis of Memory in Death and the Mother.- Nicholas Andrew Miller.- 5.Drawing on Memory: Layers of Association in Robert Breer’s Animated Films.- Mirriam Harris.- 6.Beyond the Unrepresentable: Animation, Bodies and Holocaust Memory.- Victoria Grace Walden.- PART III TRAUMA AND THE BODY.- 7.Antumbral Memory: A Psychosomatic Phenomenon in the Phantom Limb.- Ali Shobeiri.- 8.Metamorphosis, Memory, and Trauma in Michèle Cournoyer’s The Hat.- Ruth Richards.- 9.Apocalypse, Amnesia, and Acknowledgement: Trauma and Memory in Animated Movies.- Oliver Scheid.- PART IV ANIMATING URBAN PASTS.- 10.Stan Douglas and the Animation of Vancouver’s Urban Past.- Joel McKim.- 11.Cinema Emek, Cinema Labour, Cinema Travail: Revitalization of Istanbul’s Urban Past and the Cultural Memory of Protest.- Cansu Soyupak.- PART V DOCUMENTARY AND ANIMATION.- 12. ’However it affects you, it does not have to hold you back’: Animated Personal Accounts in My Autism and Me and the Genealogy of the Neurobiological Subject.- Hannah Ebben.- 13.Animated Memories.- Annabelle Honess Roe.