Emotion in Animated Films

Meike Uhrig is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Media Studies at Tuebingen University, Germany. She worked as Visiting Researcher at the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, USA. In her dissertation project she studied the "Representation, reception and effects of emotions in film" (2014).

• Foreword (Chris Landreth) Part I: Introduction 1. AnimOtion: Animating Emotions in the Digital Age (Meike Uhrig) Part II: Emotion Theory & Animated Film 2. ‘Perfect Bridge Over the Crocodiles’: Tacit Contracts, Listen Thieves, and Emotional Labour in the Animated FAGO (Paul Wells) Part III: Genres 3. Audiovisual Metaphors and Metonymies of Emotions in Animated Moving Images (Kathrin Fahlenbrach & Maike Sarah Reinerth) 4. The Butterfly Lovers: Sex, Gender, and Emotion-Based Story Prototypes (Patrick Colm Hogan) 5. Animated Documentary: Viewer Engagement, Emotion, and Performativity (Paul Ward) Part IV: Diegesis & Formal Features 6. Aesthetics and Psychology of Animated Films (Torben Grodal) 7. Creating (Artificial) Emotion in Animation Through Sound and Story (Nichola Dobson) 8. Light, Color and (E)Motion: Animated Materiality and Surfaces in Moana (Kirsten Moana Thompson) 9. Shot Scale and Viewers’ Responses to Characters in Animated Films (Katalin E. Bálint & Brendan Rooney) Part V: Young Audiences 10. How Infants Perceive Animated Films(Sermin Ildirar Kirbas & Tim J. Smith) Part VI: Excurse 11. "Portraying emotions is fundamental to animated film": An Interview with Felix Gönnert (Meike Uhrig) Part VII: Annex