The Illusion of Life II: More Essays on Animation

ISBN 10: 0909952345 / ISBN 13: 9780909952341

Published by Power Publications, Sydney, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Illusion of Life II: More Essays on Animation
• Publisher: Power Publications, Sydney
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0909952345
• ISBN 13: 9780909952341
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Illusion of Life II 2 continues and extends the pioneering work in the theory of animation begun in The Illusion of Life: Essays on Animation. It provides an abundance of understandings, approaches, correctives, and challenges to scholars not only in animation studies and film studies, but in disciplines across the spectrum. It proceeds on the assumption that animation, in increasingly taking center stage thanks to computer animation and anime, calls ever more insistently for focused, rigorous theoretical attention.

The sixteen essays composing the collection engage with post-World War II film animation in Japan and the United States, as well as with the expanded field of animation, including: the relation of live action and animation; video and computer games, the electronic, digitally animated mediascape, the city, flight simulation, the military and war; and animation in the entertainment industry. In addition, it contains essays of a more general theoretical nature on animation, as well as a substantial introduction addressing developments in animation and its theorizing.

About the Author

Alan Cholodenko is honorary associate of the Department of Art History and Theory, the University of Sydney. Other contributors include Philip Brophy, Rex Butler, Edward Colless, Ben Crawford, Patrick Crogan, David Ellison, Jane Goodall, Annemarie Jonson, Pauline Moore, Kosei Ono, Fred Patten, Freida Riggs, William D. Routt, William Schaffer, and Richard Thompson.