Author Description

"This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from traditional animated film shorts to animation installation. The collection aims to foreground new critical perspectives on animation, and connect them to both historical and current production practice. Throughout, contributors from a range of disciplines offer a roadmap of new directions in Animation Studies, discussing animation in relationship to aesthetics, ideology, visualization, representation, digital technology, and material culture"--