Experimental and expanded animation: New perspectives and practices
- Submitting institution
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Royal College of Art(The)
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Hamlyn1
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-319-73873-4
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- ISBN
- 9783319738727
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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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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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This output comprises a co-edited book with a co-authored introduction and an authored book chapter published in the same volume. The book, the first wholly devoted to this topic since Robert Russett and Cecile Starr’s Experimental Animation: An Anthology (1977), contains a collection of newly commissioned essays by filmmakers and theorists on the subject of expanded forms of experimental animation. This includes work that is non-generic, non-narrative and which comprises elements of performance, multi-screen projection and other forms typically associated with ‘expanded cinema’. The writings propose the critical re-evaluation of genres, forms and concepts of animation as hitherto understood. These works, in some of which the image all but disappears, question the necessary and sufficient conditions for a film to count as animation, in relation to its technological support. The book fills a gap in animation literature: there is plenty of critical academic writing on mainstream animated films but little on experimental work. Essays range from studies of individual filmmakers to the question of flicker. To this end, co-editors Smith and Hamlyn approached authors who work mostly outside the community of animation scholars, in order to solicit approaches that would both widen and question what animation is and can be. Hamlyn also co-wrote the introduction and contributed an original essay on the film performances of Bruce McClure. The book is the recipient of the 2018–2019 McLaren/Lambert Prize for academic animation books, awarded by the Society for Animation Studies, whose judges praised the way the book ‘tackles a much-neglected subject’. They said the book is ‘international in perspective [and] is sure to be a key point of reference’. It provides a critical survey of the variety of activities taking place under the rubric of experimental animation today, from an international perspective. The book is in use in several animation courses.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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