Ask an American “who invented animation” and the most likely response will be “Walt Disney.” Students of animation history know better, of course — but while Disney contributed significantly to the development of the form, his most permanent legacy may…
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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…
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…
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…