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Adaptation, Early Animation

British Animation After the War: ‘Pip, Squeak and Wilfred’ and Comic Strip Adaptation

by Malcolm Cook • February 18, 2019 • 2 Comments

Among the many recent commemorations of the centenary of First World War, its implications for animation history have received scant attention. In Britain the war stimulated considerable production of animated cartoons between 1914 and 1918, as explored in my recent…

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Early Animation

Aesthetics of Pre-Rubber Hose Studio Animation

by Paul Taberham • February 11, 2019 • 2 Comments

I will begin with the observation that there is no standardized name with a widely accepted currency to describe the prevailing style which began with the inception of studio animation. The emergence of Bray Productions in 1914 marks the beginning…

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Early Animation

Three Lives of Krazy Kat (Part II)

by Nicholas Sammond • February 4, 2019 • 1 Comment

Krazy first became animated during the second age of Krazy Kat, between 1916 and 1925—initially by Hearst-Vitagraph and Hearst’s International Film Service, then by John Randolph Bray, then by Margaret Winkler and Charles Mintz. Of all of these, the Hearst…

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Early Animation

Three Lives of Krazy Kat (Part I)

by Nicholas Sammond • January 28, 2019 • 0 Comments

This is a post about the 3 Ages of Krazy Kat in Two Movements. Part I considers the underpinnings of criticism of the comic strip and its animated version, and the importance of race to that criticism. Part II will…

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Asian Animation, Book Review

The Early Work of Hayao Miyazaki

by Charles daCosta • January 21, 2019 • 0 Comments

Review of Raz Greenberg. Hayao Miyazaki: Exploring the Early Work of Japan’s Greatest Animator, New York/London: Bloomsbury, 2018. There are those who advocate history-less animation, curricula that focus on the teaching of techniques and technology. In his book, Hayao Miyazaki:…

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Animation and Stardom, Early Animation

In Defense of Bray’s Colonel Heeza Liar: The Pathway to Animated Stardom

by David McGowan • January 14, 2019 • 3 Comments

Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo (1911), How a Mosquito Operates (1912), and Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) are regularly singled out as the most significant achievements in American animation of the early 1910s, often in comparison to the apparent deficiencies of other…

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Documentary

Using Animation as a Playground for My Memories

by Tom Margett • January 7, 2019 • 0 Comments

‘Memory is a perpetually actual phenomenon, a band tying us to the eternal present […] Memory nourishes recollections that may be out of focus or telescopic, global or detached, particular or symbolic [… It] takes root in the concrete, in…

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Philosophy

The Ontology, An-Ontology, and Hauntology of Animation

by Eric Herhuth • December 31, 2018 • 4 Comments

Over the past few weeks Animation Studies 2.0 has explored the theme of animation and philosophy through posts by Deborah Levitt, Scott Birdwise, Carol MacGillivray, Robby Gilbert, and Bella Honess Roe. I had the privilege of curating this theme and,…

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Book Review

20 Years of Mononoke

by Laura Montero • December 17, 2018 • 0 Comments

Review of Rayna Denison (ed.). Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli’s Monster Princess, New York/London: Bloomsbury, 2018. In March 2000, during a visit to the cinema, I chanced upon a mysterious poster design featuring a golden medallion embossed with the image of…

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Philosophy

Animation as (Performance) Philosophy

by Bella Honess Roe • December 10, 2018 • 0 Comments

This post is going to make a speculative claim and then ask a speculative question. The claim is that we can think about animation as a type of performance. The question is that if we do so, then what can…

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