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Genesis of New Animated Works

Life: The Universe and Everything

by Eagle Gamma • June 28, 2017 • 2 Comments

Life is a new series of science fiction animations that, by means of 3D images and psytrance electronic music, creates a new world of technology and imagination. Incorporating ideas from the hard and social sciences – such as astrophysics, constructal physics,…

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Adaptation

Disney, Nostalgia and Adaptation: Who’s Watching Watson’s Belle

by Lisa Hill • June 19, 2017 • 1 Comment

While discussing the movie poster for Disney’s latest (live-action) rendition of Beauty and the Beast (2017, by Bill Condon) as an introduction to semiotics in a first-year university screen studies course, I was struck by the number of young adults…

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Adaptation

Speak of the Devil! The Keys to Cruella’s Success

by Rebecca Rose Stanton • June 12, 2017 • 1 Comment

In 1961 Disney released their classic animation One Hundred and One Dalmatians, a film so successful that it was re-released in cinemas four times over the coming decades. Due to the film’s overwhelming popularity, it has inspired many adaptations. These…

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Adaptation

Animation, Adaptation and Superheroes

by Kyle Meikle • June 5, 2017 • 0 Comments

In late 2007, the autumn before Iron Man hit theaters—before audiences’ first foray into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)—DC Comics released Superman: Doomsday, a direct-to-DVD, 78-minute animated feature inspired by the popular Death of Superman storyline. The film, starring Adam…

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Genre and Animation

Embodying the Future: Akira and the Technological Science Fiction

by Jacqueline Ristola • May 22, 2017 • 3 Comments

Few films have made as deep an impact on international popular cultures as Akira (1988) by Katsuhiro Ötomo. This animated feature is a sci-fi apocalyptic opus, deeply political and incisive in how it captures the Japan of the bubble-economy era.…

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Genre and Animation

The Intrusion of Live Action in The End of Evangelion

by George Crosthwait • May 15, 2017 • 2 Comments

The original series of Hideaki Anno’s hugely popular anime Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-1996) was set in the aftermath of an apocalyptic event called ‘the second impact’. The show was structured around teenage protagonists piloting gargantuan mecha-organic bipeds (EVAs) in order…

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Genre and Animation

When Disney Met Sci-Fi: The Marketing of Lilo & Stitch (2002)

by Eve Benhamou • May 8, 2017 • 2 Comments

With its mischievous smile, big expressive eyes, and red collar, the creature featuring on the promotional poster for Lilo & Stitch (2002, by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders) might recall the numerous pets of the Disney canon. Yet, his blue…

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Animation and Stardom, Documentary

Animated Stars and Their Employment in Walt Disney Studios’ Classical Animated Documentaries

by Cristina Formenti • April 25, 2017 • 0 Comments

On the Hollywood Walk of Fame, along with the many stars immortalizing real-life celebrities, there are also some honoring famous animated figures, such as Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck. Indeed, although they are made of lines and colors and not…

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Animation and Stardom, Queer/ing Animation

Stronger Than You: Garnet as Queer Icon

by Jake Pitre • April 17, 2017 • 1 Comment

But I am even more than the two of them. Everything they care about is what I am. I am their fury. I am their patience. I am a conversation. “Stronger Than You”, Garnet (Estelle)   I have a Garnet…

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Documentary, Politics in and of Animation

Colombian Animation and New Perspectives of Sociopolitical Reality

by Lina Aguirre • April 10, 2017 • 0 Comments

Political upheaval is not something new in Colombia. For more than five decades, Colombians have experienced high levels of corruption in the government, the infiltration of drug trafficking into political life, continuous violations of human rights, and an armed conflict…

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