Animation is a powerful medium for cultural critique, utilizing caricature, fantasy, and exaggeration to address sensitive issues without causing significant offense. The animated adult series Masameer County (2021) exemplifies this by transgressing societal boundaries and exposing taboo topics. This blog…
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Ye Gods: Animating Gay Porn (Part 2)
by Adam de Beer • July 1, 2016 • 0 Comments
As argued previously in Shiver me Timber: Animating Gay Porn (Part 1) animated pornography, such as Pirate’s Booty (dir/Wendy Crawford, 2009) and Tales from the gods (dir/Wendy Crawford, 2010) allows a visual representation of sex that is arguably more real…
Shiver Me Timber: Animating Gay Porn (Part 1)
by Adam de Beer • June 15, 2016 • 1 Comment
Tom Hickman argues in The Sexual Century (1999) that sexuality in the 20th century has gone from “private passion [to]… public obsession”, and is what Susan Sontag refers to as “one of the demonic forces in human consciousness – pushing…
Maturing Animation on Cartoon Network
by Jacqueline Ristola • November 27, 2015 • 4 Comments
In writing about Cartoon Network and its successful television blocks [adult swim]* and Toonami, I find three intertwining ideas that help elucidates the network’s distinctive style and success in its adult animation, and will briefly explore them here. “Just for…
The Tedium is the Message: How Adult Animation Visualizes Monotony
by Evelyn Hielkema • November 20, 2015 • 1 Comment
Escapist animation aimed at both children and adults tends to bracket out “dull moments” for the sake of narrative efficiency. Sometimes, escaping from monotony becomes the subject of lengthy animated sequences, especially in works like the Wallace and Gromit shorts,…
Articulating Interiors of longing and Desire: “Asparagus” (1979) by Suzan Pitt.
by Chloe Feinberg • November 11, 2015 • 2 Comments
In Suzan Pitt’s 1979 animated film Asparagus, we follow a faceless doll-like figure as she moves through sensuous domestic interiors; as she defecates asparagus stalks into a toilet bowl, as she watches a forest of tangled exotic plants and flowers…