The early twentieth century bore witness not only to the emergence of the ‘standalone’ printed comic book, but also to the birth of the animated film. In many ways, comics have often been associated with their moving image counterparts, as…
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Ye Gods: Animating Gay Porn (Part 2)
by Adam de Beer • July 1, 2016 • 0 Comments
As argued previously in Shiver me Timber: Animating Gay Porn (Part 1) animated pornography, such as Pirate’s Booty (dir/Wendy Crawford, 2009) and Tales from the gods (dir/Wendy Crawford, 2010) allows a visual representation of sex that is arguably more real…
Shiver Me Timber: Animating Gay Porn (Part 1)
by Adam de Beer • June 15, 2016 • 1 Comment
Tom Hickman argues in The Sexual Century (1999) that sexuality in the 20th century has gone from “private passion [to]… public obsession”, and is what Susan Sontag refers to as “one of the demonic forces in human consciousness – pushing…
Kitne Sholay The? Animated Parodies of a Classic Bollywood Film
by Anitha Balachandran • April 15, 2016 • 0 Comments
40 years after its release, G.N Sippy’s Sholay (1975) is still arguably the most influential Hindi film ever made. Sholay’s plot is inspired by popular Hollywood westerns, and particular scenes recall famous films of this genre, such as Once Upon…
The Forgotten History of Animation in Film Studies
by Victoria Walden • November 5, 2014 • 4 Comments
“Cinema and media studies in the early twenty-first century needs a better understanding of the relationship between two of the film’s most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts: ‘animation’ and ‘film theory’. As the increasing digital nature of cinema now forces…