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Asian Animation

Princess Iron Fan: Asia’s First Full-Length Animated Feature

by Pamela O'Brien • April 16, 2018 • 1 Comment

Created during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Tiě shàn gōngzhǔ (Princess Iron Fan, 1941, by Wan Guchan and Wan Laiming) was the first full-length animated feature film made in China, as well as the first in Asia. Princess Iron…

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Asian Animation, Genre and Animation

Anime, or the Issue of Genre Classification with Transnational Audiences

by Louise Milsom • April 9, 2018 • 0 Comments

The purpose – but at the same time the problem – of genre classification is to instill ‘purity’ and order through categorization. Genre categories have defied easy definition as the borders intended to separate them are always shifting and expanding,…

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Asian Animation

Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch – Why Would Studio Ghibli Betray Miyazaki?

by Georgina Brown • April 2, 2018 • 1 Comment

‘I don’t like games. You’re robbing the precious time of children to be children.’ – Hayao Miyazaki   In 2008, whilst studio founder Hayao Miyazaki was otherwise occupied screenwriting Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi), other members of staff from Studio Ghibli – despite…

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Acting and Performance, Animation and Invisibility

Acting as an Invisible Force in Animation

by Jesús Alejandro Guzmán Ramírez and Jose Angel Cabuya Velandia • March 26, 2018 • 0 Comments

The “immobile engine” behind each animated piece is the animator, which appropriates acting as an invisible force over its creation. In this sense, this process of interpretation can be understood as the manifestation of the animator’s internal intentions on an…

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Animation and Invisibility

Animation, the Visible Language of E-motion-S and the Invisible Soul

by Inma Carpe • March 19, 2018 • 0 Comments

We love movies because they allow us to escape from our reality, to project ourselves into impossible worlds and parallel universes.  We long for adventure, love, excitement and answers to personal quests. The magic of cinema, and especially of animation,…

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Animation and Invisibility, Movement

Beyond the Visible: Blinkity Blank and the Anti-Persistence Statement

by Matias Poggini • March 12, 2018 • 8 Comments

‘Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.’ (Norman McLaren)   This quote can be recited by heart by most people in the animation field, usually in the pursuit of the…

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Alternative/Forgotten Histories, Animation and Invisibility, Animation Archives

After Decades of Obscurity an Animation Legend Receives His Due

by J.J. Sedelmaier • March 5, 2018 • 0 Comments

Several years ago, I wrote an article for Print Magazine’s online blog Imprint about a book written by artist/cartoonist Edwin George “E.G.” Lutz – a 1920 manual titled Animated Cartoons – How They Are Made Their Origin and Development. According…

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Animation and Invisibility, Documentary

Making the Invisible Visible: Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir

by Carlo Avventi • February 26, 2018 • 0 Comments

‘With animation you can do everything’. This is what director Ari Folman says in the extras of his award-winning animated film Vals Im Bashir (Waltz with Bashir, 2008)[1]. And, indeed, it seems that there is nothing animated films are not capable…

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Animation and Invisibility, Documentary

Invisible Animation: Animated Non-fiction and Invisibility in an Era of Post-Truth

by Nea Ehrlich • February 19, 2018 • 1 Comment

Interestingly, today’s hyper-visual and screen-based “era of information” is also defined as a time of “post-truth” (Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 “word of the year”). The tension between knowing and not knowing, between being informed and being misinformed is therefore timelier than…

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Animation and Invisibility

The Invisible Memories of Animated Puppets’ Materiality: An Interdisciplinary Overview

by Vincenzo Maselli • February 12, 2018 • 1 Comment

I want to compare the path of interpretation of stop-motion films, which takes into account invisible meanings conveyed by visible and indirectly tangible material features of puppets, with the set of tools theorized in the field of product design in…

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