Held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on the evening of March 24, 2002, the 74th Academy Awards heralded an important moment in the visibility of Hollywood animation. On the one hand, the ceremony marked the inaugural appearance of…
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In Defense of Bray’s Colonel Heeza Liar: The Pathway to Animated Stardom
by David McGowan • January 14, 2019 • 5 Comments
Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo (1911), How a Mosquito Operates (1912), and Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) are regularly singled out as the most significant achievements in American animation of the early 1910s, often in comparison to the apparent deficiencies of other…
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…
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…