Ewan Kirkland is an active member of SAS. Recently his new book Children’s Media and Modernity: Film, Television and Digital Games was published by Peter Lang AG. This book explores how products for children navigate contradictions by investigating the history and textuality of three major forms of modern media: cinema, television and digital games. Case studies – including Wallace and Grom...
The S.A.S. welcomes applications for Event funding at one of two levels: Conference seed support – up to a total of $500 to help run a symposium or conference Event Sponsorship – up to a total of $250 to sponsor the symposium or conference. Events must be held prior to November 2017 and promote Animation Studies. The funding is intended to support symposia or academic gatherings that ...
“… And yet it moves!”, was the response of Galileo Galilei, a former professor at the University of Padova, after he was forced to reject the idea of an Earth spinning around an unmoving Sun. In 2017, more than 380 years later, those words will come back to title the 29th Annual Conference of the SAS-Society for Animation Studies, held at the same institution where Galileo taught: one of th...
The Society for Animation Studies, has the pleasure to announce that Vassilis Kroustallis’ article, “Failure to Think, Failure to Move: Handicapped Reasoning in Waltz with Bashir,” has received the 2016 Norman McLaren - Evelyn Lambart Award for the Best Scholarly Article in Animation published 2014-2015. Kroustallis’ is a Doctoral Candidate at Ionian University, Department of Audio and ...