A couple of weeks ago, I responded to an excellent post by Caroline Ruddell in which she asks ‘what of animation theory?’ I suggested that animation studies hasn’t cohered around any central questions of enquiry in the way Film Studies…
New Theoretical Approaches
The Crisis in Animation Studies
by Lauren Carr • February 17, 2014 • 4 Comments
Dig deep into the past and try remembering when family households were able to function without the Internet. Society had more patience before affordable technology was possible. Remember sending a letter to grandma and waiting weeks for a response? Or…
James Ensor, Willem de Kooning, and “Visual Karaoke.”
by Jean Detheux • February 12, 2014 • 2 Comments
More and more often, I see digital images appear in various forums focusing on digital art, images that, to me, are to Art what karaoke is to Music. Simple as that Why? Because, in the Art that I “know” and…
What of animation and (T)theory
by Caroline Ruddell • February 3, 2014 • 5 Comments
In 1996 Bordwell and Carroll introduced their book entitled Post Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies in the following way: ‘Our title risks misleading you. Is this a book about the end of film theory? No. It’s about the end of Theory,…