15th SAS Conference 2004

15th Society for Animation Studies Conference, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
September 30 – October 3, 2004

Marking its 17th anniversary, the Society For Animation Studies held its 15th international conference on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, hosted in part by the Unit for Cinema Studies.

Drawing historians and scholars from around the globe, the conference will focused on a wide range of topics, including: Anime; Computers and Animation; Animation Around the World (Australia, Canada, Germany, Iran, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, and the USA); Animation and Politics; Animation and Animal Issues; Computer-Generated Humans; Avant-Garde and Experimental Animation. The conference also feature dscreenings of animated films and a keynote address by Prof. Mark Langer of Carleton University.

Programme

Plenary Talk

Mark Langer, “Birth of the Boop: Thoughts on Animation and Live-Action Stardom”

Plenary Session

Netherlands Animation, introduction by Ton Crone

Anime

Vicki Callahan, “Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river: Anime Aesthetics in the Digital Domain”
Jonathan Frome, “Wicked Cities”
Qi Wang, “Fantasy about the Past and the Future in Anime”

International Animation

Fatemeh Hosseini-Shakib, “Iranian Animation Today: New Horizons”
Dongil Oh, “The Aesthetical Characteristic of Recent Korean Feature Animation: Focus on Character Movement”
Seungmin Song, “Korean Independent Animation: Its History and Meaning”

International Animation

Roger Palmer, “How Soon Will People Be Asking ‘Harvie Who?'”
Lynne Perra, “A Patchwork of Differing Voices: Canadian Animation”
Lienors Torre & Dan Torre, “Australian Experimental Animation”

International Animation

Hee Holmen, “‘Life in Norway,’ an Interactive Animated Documentary”
Gunnar Strom, “Nordic Feature-Length Animated Film”

Animated Animal Issues

Shana Heinricy, “Absorbent and Yellow and Porous Is He: The Use of Animal Representations in SpongeBob Squarepants”
Nina K. Martin, “So Cute It Hurts: Violence and Affect with the ‘Happy Tree Friends'”
Paul Wells, “What Do Animated Animals Mean?: Bestial Ambivalences and the Cultural Turn”

Digital Humans

Mark Menga, “Philosophical Views of Reality: Digital Humans in Film”
Bob Rehak, “Double Duty: Stunt Bodies in Movies, Videogames, and TV”
Ozge Samanci, “The Blurry Borders in Spielberg’s Minority Report: Computers and Human Body, Digital and Analog Media, Live Action and Animation”

Animation, Computers, and Reality

Susan Buchan & Jane G. Korvink, “From Macro to Nano: Visualising ‘Worlds’ in Animation and Science”
Alan Cholodenko, “The Nutty World of Animation, Part 2”
David Surman, “From Realism to Reality Effect and Affect: Epistemological Issues in Realist Theories of Animation”

Animation and Politics

Joanna Bouldin, “War Games: Virtual Maps, video Games, and the Animation of Enemy Space”
Martin McNamara, “‘The East Is Red; the Barnyard Is Ready’: Communist Ideology in the CIA’s Animal Farm”
Byungho Park, “Cultivating the Youth: Propaganda Against the Nazis at the Subliminal Level Using Animated Features”

U.S. Animation

Ethan de Seife, “Re-evaluating Frank Tashlin’s Animation”
Richard Leskosky, “Solitary Invaders: A Sub-Genre of Studio Cartoons”
Kirsty Stevenson, “A Star Is Drawn: The Animorphic Identities of Betty Boop”

Avant-garde and Experimental Animation

Jeanpaul Goergen, “Walter Ruttmann: From Painting to Film”
(Gigi) Hu Tze Yue, “Japanese Independent Animation — Fuyu no hi: An Exclusive Club Animation Film? Some Interpretations and Readings”
Timothy Decker, “The State of 2D Animation: The Flash Revolution”