Archives and Auteurs Filmmakers and their archives University of Stirling 2nd - 4th September 2009 Call for papers A conference bringing archivists, academics, curators and researchers together to discuss the ways in which study of the archives of filmmakers and the film industry can provide new perspectives and insights into the history of cinema. We look forward to receiving proposals fo...
Call for Papers: Animation Journal
CALL FOR PAPERS Guest Edited Issue of Animation Journal Editor: Rebecca Coyle Working Title: Thwack! Hearing the motion in animation Sound plays a crucial role in screen animation, assisting and extending expressive tools. Sound and music operate with motion, storytelling and space, enabling animation to leap out of the screen and into the viewer¹s imagination. Analysing why and how this occu...
Andrew Darley to Give Persistence of Animation Conference Keynote Address
Andrew Darley, the acclaimed author of Visual Digital Culture: Surface Play and Spectacle in New Media Genres (Routledge, 2000), a book which has helped shape contemporary cultural theory, will deliver the keynote address at the Persistence of Animation Conference. As to the theme of his address, he writes to say that the "topic I have in mind is that of the conference title itself, i.e., `The per...
Animation Studies, Vol. 3: New articles
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://j...
