The 2009 SAS Conference will be held July 10-12 at the Savannah College of Art and Design's Atlanta campus (http://www.scad.edu ). (The school's main campus is in Savannah.) The conference is being put on by the school's Animation Department (located in both Atlanta and Savannah) along with its Cinema Studies Department in Savannah. I also am happy to announce that ASIFA-Atlanta has agreed to be i...
Special Programme: “Animadoc – More Than Just Reality?” in Leipzig
51. INTERNATIONAL LEIPZIG FESTIVAL FOR DOCUMENTARY AND ANIMATED FILMS 27 October – 2 November 2008 Special Programme: Animadoc – More Than Just Reality? The Best Animated Documentaries of More Than Three Decades Tuesday-Friday 5p.m. Passage Kinos Leipzig Wednesday- Saturday 14 a.m. CineStar Leipzig In the past few years, filmmakers, festivals and audiences have become more and more awa...
CFP: Popular Culture Association National Conference
Animation Area of the Popular Culture Association Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference New Orleans, Louisiana April 8-11, 2009 The Animation Area of the Popular Culture Association seeks individual-papers and panel proposals for presentation at the 2009 National Conference of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, to be held ...
Animation Studies, Vol. 3: New article
Animation Studies' third volume has been updated with María Lorenzo Hernández' article "Visions of a Future Past." This paper gives an overview of the animated series Ulysses 31 (1981), a French-Japanese co-production based on the epic poem The Odyssey, which introduced children and young audiences to Greek myths, relocating the original narratives into futuristic contexts such as the 31st centu...
