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The Camera and “Structuring Reality”

by Sheila Sofian • April 8, 2013 • 14 Comments

Last night I attended a panel discussion on “Infotainment” in which New York Times Hollywood correspondent Michael Cieply discussed documentary filmmaking as compared to traditional journalism. He made the following statement: “The camera is a tool to structure reality, not…

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Animated Memories

by Bella Honess Roe • April 1, 2013 • 4 Comments

Theorists of film and photography, from Barthes to Benjamin, have often drawn our attention to photographic media as a way of accessing history. However, animated documentaries such as Places Other People Have Lived (Yilmaz, 2011), Learned by Heart (Rimminen and…

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Animation Studies / Animation Stories If Complementary, Animation Studies are not Consensual: Good for Them!

by Pierre Floquet • March 25, 2013 • 4 Comments

Stories, histories, History: never will I pretend not to need them, rely on them, nor require them. Who would dare deny and ignore the vital value of History, or the sense of History? So obviously, this never will be the…

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Documenting History

by Maureen Furniss • March 18, 2013 • 9 Comments

One of the challenges of teaching an introductory animation history is finding an adequate book. There are plenty of examples of well-researched histories, but most of them have some sort of limitation—for example, being too narrow in scope (maybe focusing…

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‘Sorry, I can’t make the class; I’m having my hair cut.’

by Barry Purves • March 11, 2013 • 1 Comment

The student who spoke those lines to me recently did not appear to accompany Tim Reckhart down the red carpet at last month’s Oscar ceremony. I wonder why. Seeing Tim there was an impressive sight, even more so as his…

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Writing Animation History

by Harvey Deneroff • March 4, 2013 • 4 Comments

I have two definitions of history which I keep coming back to in my mind. 1. History is what was known once but has been forgotten. 2. History is the present’s interpretation of the past. — Luke McKernan, “Media and…

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