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Supporting the study of animation since 1987

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The Society for Animation Studies brings together theory and practice within its diverse membership.

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Welcome to the Society for Animation Studies!

The Society for Animation Studies (SAS) is an international organization dedicated to the study of animation history and theory. It was founded by Dr. Harvey Deneroff in 1987. Each year, the SAS holds an annual conference at locations throughout the world, where members present their recent research. For more information, contact SAS Co-Presidents Dr. Cristina Formenti and Dr. Mihaela Mihailova at pr*******@an**************.org.

The 2024 Annual Conference will be hosted by the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture in Sydney (Australia) from July 1st to July 4th, 2024. For more information about the Annual Conference, visit the conference website here.

The SAS also publishes two peer reviewed publications: Animation Studies, the society’s own Open Access  journal, and the Open Access blog Animation Studies 2.0. The most recent articles from these two publications, alongside the SAS’s Twitter feed, are featured below.

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Animation Studies Journal

  • 16 June 2024
    Steven Malliet, John Buckley, Guido Devadder et al. – Expanded Memories: Artistic Experiments into Hybrid Analogue-Digital Animation
  • 16 June 2024
    Sergei Glotov – Yefim Gamburg’s Passion of Spies: Parody in Soviet Animation
  • 16 June 2024
    Daniel Johnson – “The Emotions that Get Stuck in Your Throat”: Expressivity in Speech, Script, and Sound in Japanese Animation
  • 11 December 2023
    Myria Christophini – Animating in British Communities During the Lockdown
  • 5 December 2023
    Hannes Rall and Emma Harper – Re-inventing Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre for Immersive Animation: A Practice-oriented Case Study
  • 4 December 2023
    Michelle Ann Abate – Hogan’s Alley in the Enchanted Forest: R. F. Outcault’s The Yellow Kid and Walt Disney’s Dopey
  • 1 December 2023
    Li Guo – Toward a New Media Ecology: Aesthetic Experiments in Post-Socialist Chinese Animated Documentaries
  • 20 June 2023
    Anastasiia Gushchina – Towards a Materialist Theory of Animated Documentary
  • 20 June 2023
    JS Wu – Hand of Artist, Voice of Griot: A Poetics of African Animation in the Films of Jean-Michel Kibushi
  • 13 December 2022
    Elena Altheman – Adventure Time’s World-Building: Analyzing Its Opening Title Sequence and the Mobile Map

Animation Studies 2.0

  • 6 May 2025
    Is Priit Pärn a Surrealist?
  • 22 April 2025
    Surrealism, Memory, and Resistance in Soviet Animation
  • 15 April 2025
    Review of The Intersection of Animation, Video Games, and Music: Making Movement Sing
  • 8 April 2025
    Dimensions of Dialogue: The Carnivorous Appetite of Surrealist Animation
  • 26 March 2025
    Time for Bed: The Dreamlike world of Dougal and the Blue Cat (1970)
  • 11 March 2025
    Cymebelle (2024): A Surrealistic approach to Character Mysteries
  • 4 March 2025
    Wallace and Gromit and the case for Claymation in a world of AI
  • 25 February 2025
    The Outsourcing of Traditional Animation in Spain
  • 18 February 2025
    Marketing The Princess and the Goblin: Transnational Animation and Failure During the Disney Renaissance
  • 11 February 2025
    A Transnational Appropriation: Thinking about G.O.R.A.’s Visual Effects
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