Animation Studies’ third volume has been updated with the HTML versions of its two final articles.
Laura Ivins-Hulley’s “The Ontology of Performance in Stop Animation: Kawamoto’s ‘House of Flame’ and Švankmajer’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher'” examines how we locate performance in stop puppet animation, suggesting that it lies primarily in the realm of appearance.
Available at: http://journal.animationstudies.org/category/volume-3/laura-ivins-hulley-the-ontology-of-performance-in-stop-animation/
Van Norris has contributed a paper entitled “Taking an Appropriate Line: Exploring Representations of Disability within British Mainstream Animation.” This paper addresses the issue of representations of disability within animation. Through uses of comic incongruity, Aardman’s ‘Creature Discomforts’ series of short films (2007-8) creates an extension away from previous modes and argues that through a collusion of comedy and documentary forms in service to many of the familiar formal tropes encountered within the stop-motion animation meduim, it is possible to present a fresh depiction that refutes moribund, exclusionary and reductive narratives.
Available at: http://journal.animationstudies.org/category/volume-3/van-norris-taking-an-appropriate-line/
The PDF versions of these articles will become available early next year, together with the full volume in PDF format.
