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Guest Editor: Jeffrey Skoller, University of California, Berkeley Traditionally, documentary and animation have been the two genres placed at opposite poles of the cinematic spectrum for representing reality and the imagination. The aura of high purpose surrounding the social documentary with its indexically inscribed worlds, and the frivolity of the phantasmagorical ones of hand-made cartoons, we...

The Society for Animation Studies is now accepting essays pertaining  to animation that were published in 2008 or 2009.  Submitted work must  be entered by the author himself/herself, and the author must have  membership in the S.A.S. for this current year, 2010.  An author  should limit submitted work to a single published essay that best  represents his/her scholarship during this pe...

Alan Cholodenko is the recipient of the 2010 McLaren-Lambart Award for Best Scholarly Article on animation, for his essay, "The Animation of Cinema," which appeared in The Semiotic Review of Books.  This article revisits the idea of animation as a precursor to the cinematic form, drawing on research into the works of one of its historical progenitors, Emile Reynaud.  This is a deconstructionist ...

The Society for Animation Studies announces a call for entries for the 2011 McLaren-Lambart Award for the Best Scholarly Book on Animation.  Entries must be a book published in 2009 or 2010 that contributes to the field of animation studies.  An author must be a current member of the S.A.S, and authors must nominate themselves by submitting their book either as a digital file or by having the bo...