“… 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 ...
The Society for Animation Studies has the pleasure to announce that Animated Documentary (Palgrave, 2013) by Annabelle Honess Roe has won the delayed 2015 SAS McLaren-Lambart Award for Best Book on Animation. Animated Documentary is a vital addition to both animation scholarship and film studies scholarship more broadly, expertly achieving the tricky challenge of synthesising these two scholar...
Image via JungleKey ANNOUNCEMENT OF CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS SOCIETY FOR ANIMATION STUDIES 2016 NORMAN McLAREN - EVELYN LAMBART AWARD "Best Scholarly Article on Animation" From the period of December 15, 2015 until February 28, 2016, the Society for Animation Studies is accepting for consideration critical articles dedicated to the study of animation history and/o...
