Flow (Zilbalodis, 2024)is striking for its lack of spoken dialogue; the filmmakers respected the lived reality of the nonhuman creatures by not imposing on them anthropocentric ideas of spoken narrative. Nonetheless, the story is communicated beautifully, evocatively, and intelligibly to…
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Ducking the Issues: Anthropomorphism of Donald Duck
by Daryl Boman • November 16, 2020 • 0 Comments
Animals with human traits have populated the fables of Aesop and the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm to entertain and educate children and adults for hundreds of years. Therefore, is no great surprise that this aspect of the genre of…
The Reigning Rooster: A Critique on the Characterization of Cartoon Chickens
by Rebecca Rose Stanton • October 12, 2020 • 3 Comments
Whilst researching how animals have been depicted by Walt Disney Animation Studios (WADAS)[1], I found that chickens were featured in nineteen WDAS films (34%) (Stanton, 2019). This makes chickens the most commonly depicted species of bird in WDAS films. This…
Homo Ridens and Animate Viverra
by Terry Lindvall • April 29, 2019 • 0 Comments
Felix the Cat silently chortled his “Ha Ha!” Mickey Mouse laughs (figure 1). Bugs Bunny snickers. Snoopy guffaws. In A Bug’s Life (1998, by John Lasseter), numerous insects laugh at their own jokes: “there’s a waiter in my soup.” When…
Planes, trains and automobiles; anthropomorphized vehicles in children’s animation (but mum it’s educational!)
by Nichola Dobson • September 4, 2015 • 3 Comments
This is a big topic to put into a short blog post and I have no intention on covering the complexities of the creepiness of the CG Thomas the Tank Engine with his juvenile voice versus the original stop motion…