Animated Documentary [electronic resource] /
Honess Roe, Annabelle.author.
Animated Documentary, the first book to be published on this fascinating topic, considers how animation is used as a representational strategy in nonfiction film and television and explores the ways animation expands the range and depth of what documentary can show us about the world. On behalf of the Society for Animation Studies(SAS), the Chair of the Jury announced the book as the winner of the delayed 2015 SAS McLaren-Lambart Award with the following words: 'Animated Documentary is a vital addition to both animation scholarship and film studies scholarship more broadly, expertly achieving the tricky challenge of synthesising these two scholarly traditions to provide a compelling and brilliantly coherent account of the animated documentary form. At the heart of Roe's book is the conviction that animated documentary "has the capacity to represent temporally, geographically, and psychologically distal aspects of life beyond the reach of live action" (p. 22). As a representational strategy, Roe details how animated documentary can be seen to adopt techniques of "mimetic substitution, non-mimetic substitution and evocation" in response to the limitations of live action material (p. 26). Animated Documentary will without doubt become an essential resource for many years to come for anyone interested in the intersection of animation and documentary.'.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Half-Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures                      ""; ""Acknowledgements                       ""; ""Introduction                   ""; ""Animation and documentaryâ€?s shared history                                                 ""; ""Scope and organisation                             ""; ""1 Representational Strategies                                    ""; ""How animation is used in animated documentary                                                    ""
""The ontology of animated documentary                                           """"2 Digital Realities                          ""; ""Dino-docs and strategies of visual and aural authentication                                                                  ""; ""Tracing the sights and sounds of reality in Rotoshop and Chicago 10                                                                          ""; ""Paratextual authentication                                 ""; ""The excess of animated realism                                     ""
""3 Animated Interviews                            """"Uncanny bodies                     ""; ""Absence as representational strategy                                           ""; ""The expressive power of the disembodied voice                                                    ""; ""4 The World in Here                          ""; ""More than the interview seen: Sheila Sofianâ€?s illustrated interviews                                                                           ""; ""Inside out: animating subjective experience                                                  ""
""Hybrids of reality                         """"Animated awareness                         ""; ""5 Animated Memories                          ""; ""(Dis)continuities: the self in history                                             ""; ""The unspoken and the forgotten: the trauma in/of history in Silence and Waltz with Bashir                                                                                                ""; ""Afterword                ""; ""Notes            ""; ""Bibliography                   ""; ""Index            ""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Animated Documentary, the first book to be published on this fascinating topic, considers how animation is used as a representational strategy in nonfiction film and television and explores the ways animation expands the range and depth of what documentary can show us about the world. On behalf of the Society for Animation Studies(SAS), the Chair of the Jury announced the book as the winner of the delayed 2015 SAS McLaren-Lambart Award with the following words: 'Animated Documentary is a vital addition to both animation scholarship and film studies scholarship more broadly, expertly achieving the tricky challenge of synthesising these two scholarly traditions to provide a compelling and brilliantly coherent account of the animated documentary form. At the heart of Roe's book is the conviction that animated documentary "has the capacity to represent temporally, geographically, and psychologically distal aspects of life beyond the reach of live action" (p. 22). As a representational strategy, Roe details how animated documentary can be seen to adopt techniques of "mimetic substitution, non-mimetic substitution and evocation" in response to the limitations of live action material (p. 26). Animated Documentary will without doubt become an essential resource for many years to come for anyone interested in the intersection of animation and documentary.'.
Motion pictures and television.
Documentary films.
Animated films.
Film genres.
Social sciences.
Communication.
Screen Studies.
Documentary.
Animation.
Genre.
Social Sciences, general.
Media Studies.