Food represents the culture and identity of a society, region or country and its depiction within an audio-visual work allows creating a connection with the audiences of those regions, as well as those who love to try these cuisines. Today,…
Food
A Smorgasbord of Substitutions: Food in/as Stop-Motion Animation
by Andrea Comiskey • May 19, 2023 • 1 Comment
One could enjoy quite a feast from the buffet of stop-motion history. You can find eggs in Charley Bowers’s Believe It or Don’t (1935), an array of fresh fruits and vegetables in Disney’s A Symposium on Popular Songs (1962), beans…
Food
A Moving Feast: “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”
by Peter Piatkowski • May 18, 2023 • 2 Comments
Until recently, the narrative of the American Thanksgiving meal has been about togetherness. Inspired perhaps by the Norman Rockwell painting Freedom from Want (1943), which depicts the archetypical American family sharing the archetypical American Thanksgiving feast. The traditional Thanksgiving meal is classic…
Theology
Representations of Muslim Trauma in The Breadwinner (2017)
by Safiyya Hosein • March 7, 2023 • 2 Comments
The Breadwinner is a 2D animated film about an Afghan Muslim girl’s desperate attempt to support her family. The film follows an 11-year-old girl, Parvana, who cuts her hair and dresses up as a boy to work for the family…
Theology
Mythology of Repetition, Memitology in Animated Gifs
by Wayner Tristão Gonçalve • February 28, 2023 • 1 Comment
Mythology, as a reference to looping, serves as a new narrative origin, since it enables the narration of the story behind eternal punishments. These Greek heroes betray the trust of some god and are therefore punished with repetition. Duration is…
Theology
The Animator-as-Creator “Theology” in Still Alive (2018)
by Dennis Tupicoff • February 21, 2023 • 0 Comments
itscarlyjane nude The animator is often seen as a God controlling all time and space in the animated film. Yet, in our shared world of human life, the animator is as helpless as everyone else, and must die. After a…
Theology
Revelation of the Author and Incarnation in the Animated Film
by Terry Lindvall • February 14, 2023 • 1 Comment
The giant journalist G. K. Chesterton observed that “as God made a pigmy-image of Himself and called it Man, so man made a pigmy-image of creation and called it art” (Chesterton, 264). J. R. R. Tolkien argued that all artists…
Theology
Theology and Animated Parables
by Terry Lindvall • February 7, 2023 • 0 Comments
A discussion of theology, from the writings of St. Paul through the ironies of Soren Kierkegaard, delves into questions of God, of human nature, of theodicy and the problem of evil, and of incarnation, sacrifice, grace, and salvation. The heavy…
Theology
Animation as Sacred Text: Thoughts on Community Formation
by Erin Jones and Tim Jones • January 31, 2023 • 0 Comments
One of the gifts of most faith-based communities is that they are among the few places in society where people of multiple generations gather together for meaning-making purposes. The task of pastors, rabbis, imams, or other leaders is to offer…
Sound and Music
Animated Intergenerational Interviews
by Ruth Hayes • January 9, 2023 • 0 Comments
In winter, 2021, I and my co-faculty, Laurie Meeker, assigned our students to produce Animated Intergenerational Interviews about individuals’ relationships with their environment. The interviews were to be 30 to 60 seconds long, include at least 30 seconds of animation…