The recipient of the 2009 McLaren-Lambart Award for Best Scholarly Book on Animation is Maureen Furniss. Her beautifully illustrated book, The Animation Bible, represents an innovative new approach to an introductory text on animation, focusing not just on history, or how-to, or theory, but instead finds a multi-disciplinary thread that touches on both analytic and practical knowledge. The autho...
The Rise of the Creative Economy
CALL FOR PAPERS The Society for Animation Studies invites submissions for proposals for individual papers and panels for its 23rd Annual conference to be held in the Cultural Center of the University of Indianapolis, Athens Campus. The conference will be organized by the Academic Affair Department and the Communication Department of the University of Indianapolis. This year the conference will ...
Call for contributions – Making it (Un)real: Contemporary Theories and Practices in Documentary/Anim
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...
2010 McLAREN-LAMBART AWARD
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...
