Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital
- Submitting institution
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Arts University Bournemouth, the
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- Taberham_33025 Analogue
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138702981
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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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
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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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 anthology Taberham co-edited with two colleagues, Miriam Harris and Lilly Husbands. Our motivation for creating the book was because while the field of experimental animation has been taught widely on University courses that explore the avant-garde and animation more generally, there was no definitive contemporary book that examined experimental animation in any detail. When we began development of the anthology, the best resource was Robert Russett and Cecile Starr's Experimental Animation, which was initially published in 1976 and revised in 1988. Both experimental animation and film theory have undergone substantial developments since then, and the field of animation studies and experimental film more generally was overdue for a new collection that would acquaint audiences with the history of experimental animation as well as its more recent developments. The goal of our proposed anthology was to become the primary resource for those who wanted to study and teach experimental animation.
Combining theory with practice, the collection combined original articles by scholars with new interviews with some of the most influential experimental animators working today, across a range of nationalities. Besides contributing to the book as a coeditor, Taberham also co-wrote the introduction and was the sole-author for chapter one. The introductory chapter covers the current state of experimental animation, discusses the term ‘experimental’, explores its global reach, and finally outlines the anthology as a whole. Taberham's own chapter (titled It Is Alive If You Are: Defining Experimental Animation) frames the rest of the anthology by offering a definition of experimental animation through a series of key traits.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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