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The Illusion of Life II
More Essays on Animation
Edited by Alan Cholodenko
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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.
Press Reviews:
"An extremely valuable collection ... the volume's essays contribute greatly to the interdisciplinary discipline of Animation Studies and should be added to the bookshelf of anyone seriously interested in thinking through animation both philosophically and theoretically."--Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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