Experimental animation: from analogue to digital
- Submitting institution
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Middlesex University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 1645
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315203430
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138702981
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/25350/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital is an edited book that focuses on experimental animation’s deep roots in the twentieth century as well as its current position in the twenty-first century media landscape. The book provides an up-to-date survey that considers not only experimental analogue approaches and their accompanying theoretical implications, but also the significant developments and conceptual issues associated with digital and interactive technology. The book’s chapters incorporate a variety of theoretical lenses, including historical, materialist, phenomenological and scientific perspectives, and they mostly examine artists and works that have not previously been analysed in a scholarly context. Acknowledging that process is a fundamental operation underlining experimental animation practice, the book includes not only chapters by international academics but also original interviews with significant practitioners from around the world, including William Kentridge, Jodie Mack, Larry Cuba, Martha Colburn and Max Hattler. As the first collection of academic texts exclusively devoted to experimental animation in more than 30 years, this work, co-edited by the author, is positioned to be of considerable influence and to act as a very important point of reference for the study of animation, experimental cinema and moving image art. Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital is particularly significant in being a key textbook for this material internationally. In addition to co-writing the book’s introduction, Husbands contributed a chapter, ‘A Hermeneutic of Polyvalence: Deciphering Narrative in Lewis Klahr’s The Pettifogger (2011)’, which closely analyses poetic expression and narrative structures and modes of engagement in works by Klahr, one of the most well-known yet under examined contemporary American collage filmmakers. It offers a distinctive and conceptually rigorous approach to understanding experimental animation beyond assumptions about modernist abstraction, offering new insights into narratology in this field.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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