Animation Studies Reader

Nichola Dobson is a teaching fellow in design and screen cultures at Edinburgh College of Art, UK. Founding editor of Animation Studies (2006 - 2011) and Animation Studies 2.0 (2012- present). Bella Honess Roe is a lecturer at the University of Surrey, UK, where she is the programme director for Film Studies. Her scholarship and teaching focuses on animation, documentary and popular culture more broadly. Amy Ratelle is the Research Coordinator for the Semaphore Research Cluster on Mobile and Pervasive Computing, at the University of Toronto, Canada. Caroline Ruddell is Lecturer in Film and TV Studies at Brunel University, London, UK. She is Reviews Editor for the animation: an interdisciplinary journal and sits on various Editorial Boards.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionNichola Dobson, Annabelle Honess Roe, Amy Ratelle and Caroline RuddellSection One: Theory, Philosophy, Concepts1. Approaching Animation and Animation Studies Caroline Ruddell (Brunel University London, UK) and Lilly Husbands (University of Arts London, UK and Middlesex University, UK)2. The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-GardeTom Gunning (University of Chicago, USA)3. Re-Animating Space Aylish Wood (University of Kent, UK)4. Realism and Animation Mihaela Mihailova (Michigan State University, USA)5. The Uncanny Valley Lisa Bode (University of Queensland, Australia)6. Animation and Performance Annabelle Honess Roe (University of Surrey, UK)7. Animation and Memory Victoria Grace Walden (University of Sussex, UK)8. Some Thoughts on Theory-Practice Relationships in Animation StudiesPaul Ward (Arts University Bournemouth, UK)Section Two: Forms and Genres9. Absence, Excess and Epistemological Expansion: Towards a Framework for the Study of Animated DocumentaryAnnabelle Honess Roe (University of Surrey, UK)10. Experimental Animation Paul Taberham (Arts University Bournemouth, UK)11. Features and Shorts Christopher Holliday (King's College London, UK)12. Advertising and Public Service Films Malcolm Cook (University of Southampton, UK)13. Political Animation and Propaganda Eric Herhuth (Tulane University, USA)14. TV Animation Nichola Dobson (Edinburgh College of Art, UK)15. Animation and/as Children’s Entertainment Amy Ratelle (editor of Animation Studies)16. Video Games and Animation Chris Pallant (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK)Section Three: Representation: Frames and Contexts17. Race, Resistance and Violence in Cartoons Nicholas Sammond (University of Toronto, Canada)18. We’re Asian. More Expected of Us: The Model Minority and Whiteness in King of the HillAlison Reiko Loader (Concordia University, Canada)19. Transformers Rescue Bots: Representation in DisguiseNichola Dobson (Edinburgh College of Art, UK)20. Anime’s Bodies Rayna Denison (University of East Anglia, UK)21. Disney Films 1989-2005: The “Eisner” EraAmy M. Davis (University of Hull, UK)22. Taking an Appropriate Line: Exploring Representations of Disability within British Mainstream AnimationVan Norris (University of Portsmouth, UK)Index

[A] very good resource for a comprehensive understanding of the field … The Animation Studies Reader’s editors certainly succeeded in demonstrating the richness and diversity of animation and animation studies.