The illusion of life 2 : more essays on animation / edited by Alan Cholodenko.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Alan Cholodenko -- Japan. The long flight of manga and anime: the history of comics and animation in Japan / Kosei Ono -- When velvet gloves meet iron fists: cuteness in Japanese animation / Pauline Moore -- Hybridity and the end of innocence / Jane Goodall -- De anime / William D. Routt -- Sonic-atomic-neumonic: apocalyptic echoes in anime / Philip Brophy -- United States. Pronoun trouble II: the missing dick / Richard Thompson -- Between the legs of the mermaid / Edward Colless -- The infinite quest: Husserl, Bakshi, the rotoscope and the ring / Freida Riggs -- Japan and the United States. Simba versus Kimba: the pride of lions / Fred Patten -- The "expanded" field of animation: Live action and animation. Allegories of animation: Schindler's list, E.T., and The lion king / Rex Butler -- Video and computer games, the electronic, digitally animated mediascape, the city, flight simulation, the military and war. Animating architectures: panic styles for troubled cities / David Ellison -- Logistical space: flight simulation and virtual reality / Patrick Crogan -- Animation in the entertainment industry. Intertextual personae: character licensing in practice and theory / Ben Crawford -- More general theoretical pieces on animation. Porky's stutter: the vocal trope and lifedeath in animation / Annemarie Jonson -- Animation 1: the control-image / William Schaffer -- Speculation on the animatic automaton / Alan Cholodenko -- Appendices.-- Fred Patten's annotated chronology of pertinent works and publications relevant to The Lion King and to the controversy -- The Life of Illusion program.

"The Illusion of Life: Essays on Animation was the first significant book of scholarly essays theorizing animation. The Illusion of Life 2 continues and extends its pioneering work in the theory of animation. It provides an abundance of understandings, approaches, correctives and challenges to scholars not only in animation studies but in Film Studies, indeed to disciplines across the spectrum. It proceeds on the assumption that animation, in increasingly taking ‘centre 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." -- Publisher's website.

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