List of Annual SAS Conference Papers (1989-2000)

 

The following list contains information on papers presented at the annual conferences of the Society for Animation Studies, since 1989. Different sources have been consulted to compile this list. We owe a special thanks to Jane Pilling, who published information on the first eight SAS conferences in her book A Reader in Animation Studies (John Libbey 1997). The information on the most recent conferences was compiled from different sources, and is more inconsistent and incomplete. We would therefore welcome all additions and corrections so that we can update this list in the future.


FIRST ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE, 26-29 October 1989
University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Aesthetic problems

Leskosky, Richard J. (University of Illinois, Urbana), Repetition in Animated Films
McNamara, Martin (San Francisco State University), Short Duration in Animation

Disney

Allen, Robin (InterTheatre, United Kingdom), European Influences on Disney: The Formative Years Before Snow White
Jarvik, Laurence (University of California, Los Angeles), The Photographic Ecstasy: The Three Caballeros – The Baia Sequence: A Close Analysis
Mayerson, Mark (Toronto), Right and Wrong – Morality and the Story Structure of Pinocchio
Furniss, Maureen Ruth (University of Southern California), An Analysis of live action / Animation in Disney’s The Three Caballeros and Mary Poppins
Kaufman, J.B. (Wichita), Norm Ferguson and the Latin American Films of Walt Disney
Merritt, Karen (University of California), Falling and Flying: Dopey Meets Horatio Alger in Dumbo
Merritt, Russell (Oakland, California), Analysis of Pinocchio

Towards a theory of animation

Cholodenko, Alan (University of Sydney), Framing the Framing of Animation
Mays, Peter (Second Wave Software, California), Towards a Theory of Animation: Real-time Computer Animation as a New Art Form
Yoresh, Y. (Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design), Animation-Ethics and Esthetics

Early television

DelGaudio, Sybil (Hofstra University, New York), The Cel Meets the Sell: Early Television Commercial Animation
Frierson, Michael (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), Art Clokey and the Rebirth of Clay Animation

European independents

Gizicki, Marcin (Rhode Island School Of Design / Polish Filmmakers Union), Metaphorical Meanings of Piotr Kamler’s Chronopolis and Jan Lenica’s Labyrinth
Silberman, Robert (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), The Brothers Quay, Bruno Schulz and the Middle Europe of the Mind
Weiner, Steve (Davis, California), Jan Lenica’s Landscape.

The world upside down: The poetics of the animated cartoons

Jones, Chuck (Chuck Jones Productions, California), The Joy of Animation
Kenner Hugh (Johns Hopkins University), Modernism in Animation
Aspects of independent and institutional filmmaking
Dobson, Terence (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), Confluence and Conflict in Norman McLaren’s Synchromy
Moritz, William (California Institute of the Arts), Walter Ruttmann, Viking Eggeling – Restoring the Esthetics of Early Experimental Animation
Walz, Gene (University of Manitoba), Animation at the National Film Board of Canada on the Eve of its Fiftieth Birthday

Labour-management problems

Deneroff, Harvey (Los Angeles), The Terrytoons Strike
Langer, Mark (Carleton University, Ottawa), Standarisation of Production Practices in the 1930s
Smoodin, Eric (American University), Whistling while they Work: Labour, Cartoons and Popular Journalism During the 1940s

Aspects of independent animation

McLaughlin, Dan (University of California Los Angeles), Independent Animation in the Magic Kingdom: Between a Rock and Hollywood
Pitt, Suzan (Harvard University), Animation and the Creative Process
Priestley, Joanna (Oregon Art Institute), Themes in Contemporary Women’s Animation

Narrative structure and animation: Influences

Curtis, Scott (University of Iowa), Defining the Frame of the Figural: Comic Strips and American Silent Animation
Hoxter, Julian (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom), Garbage Bags for the American Dream? Post-Modern Narratives at the End of Cinema and Animation
Lyons, Jonothan (Los Angeles), Comedy, Clowns and Cartoons
Schenkel, Talia (Baruch College), Yiddish Folklore in Animation

SECOND ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE, 5-7 October 1990
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada    

Modes of production

Attallah, Paul (Carleton University, Ottawa), Animation and Canadian Television
Furness, Maureen (University of Southern California), Life in Post-Modernism: It’s Prime Time for the Simpsons
Lorenzo, William (Brooklyn), Foreign-Toons: An Examination of Foreign Theatrical Animation on Early US Television

Canon formation

Joubert-Laurencin, Herve (Université Lumière Lyon II), La canonisation du film d’animation
Wassenaar, Michael (Madison, Wisconsin), A Canon without a Discipline?
Ehrlich, David (Vermont & New Hampshire Arts Councils), Experimental Animation as Formal Narrative and Its Proper Role Within the Traditional American Festival

Studies of filmmakers

Gizycki, Marcin (Rhode Island School of Design), Stefan and Franciszka Themerson: Unknown masters of Experimental Animation
Mayerson, Mark (Toronto), Jim Tyer: The Animator Who Broke the Rules
Walz, Gene (University of Manitoba), The Animated Richard Condie
Moritz, William (California Institute of the Arts), Norman McLaren in Context

Modes of production: Flipbook, multiplane and puppet

Leskosky, Richard (University of Illinois, Urbana), Flip-books: History and Use
Hayes, Ruth (California Institute of Arts), Flip-books: Animation in the Free Zone
McNamara, Martin (San Francisco State University), The Quest for Depth: Classic and Contemporary Multiplane Animation
Azerad, Michael (National Film Board of Canada), The Brain – a Multi-Axis, Location / Studio Camera / Subject, Robotic Motion Control System

Ethnicity and gender

Page, Judy (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Feminine Gender as Animated Reality in an Irrational World: Why Inspector Clouseau’s Panther is Pink
Lawling, John (Regent University), Hollywood Shuffle: Images of African-Americans in the Animated Film
Wallace, Donald (Carleton University, Ottawa), Fleischer Animation and Representations of Black Music

Fleischer Studio’s Inc.

Deneroff, Harvey (Los Angeles), The Fleisher Studio’s go to Miami
Frierson, Michael (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), Analysis of Modeling
Langer, Mark (Carleton University, Ottawa), From Fleischer to Famous: A Study in Institutional Failure and Reorganisation

Modes of production: The computer

McLaughlin, Dan (University of California, Los Angeles), The Retooling of Animation: Is the Tool Now the Message?
Dutrisac, Julie (National Film Board of Canada), Animaster
Tafler, David (Philidelphia College of Art & Design), Moving Backward into the Future: The Legacy of Computer Animation
Manovich, Lev (University of Rochester), Grids, Stars and Glows: Toward an Analysis of Style of Computer Animation in Television

Theories and aesthetic questions

Prochorov, Anatoly (Pilot Animation Studio, Moscow), On Animation Technologies Metaphysics
Macmillan, Robert (Ottowa), Eisenstein, Levy-Bruhl and Disney: Totemism in the Disney Cartoon
Sifianos, George (Paris), Le Représentation due Mouvement aux Peintures des Grottes Prehistoriques et les Origines du Cinéma d’Animation
Herbert, Pierre (National Film Board of Canada), Présence et Représentation du Corps en Cinéma d’Animation

National cinemas

Carriére, Louis (CEGEP Vieux Montréal), L’animation à l’Office national du film du Canada et.al. Protestation (1941-89)
Gercheva, Krassimira, (Bulgarian Institute of Cinema, Theatre and Television), Bulgarian Animation Before and After Glasnost
Mackássy, Kati (Pannonia Film), Animation and Politics in Hungary
Marinchevska, Nadezha (Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), The Bulgarian Way of Animation and the Alternative Destination of Henri Koulev’s Tale of the Road

Narrative strategies and mechanisms

Bouse, Derek (University of Pensylvania), True-Life Fantasies: Animated Features and the Development of Live Action Wildlife Films
Lindvall, Terry (Regent University), Lively and Animated Discours: Self-Reflexivity and the Mere Cartoon
Straw, William (Carleton University, Ottawa), Decorative Entrances: The Animated Credit Sequence in American live action Comedies of the Early 1960s
George, Russell (University of Kent), Narrative Repetition in the Classical Cartoon: Poe, Lacan and Rabbit Seasoning

Modes of production: Advertising films

Strøm, Gunnar (Møre og Romsdal College, Norway), Norwegian Animated Cinema Commercials From the 1920s and 1930s.
Cohen, Karl (San Francisco), Development of the Animated TV Commercial, 1944-49
DelGaudio, Sybil (Hofstra University, New York), Marketing Marky: The Maypo Campaign and Other Storyboard Stories

THIRD ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE, 4-6 October 1991
Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA    

Allen, Robin (InterTheatre, Stockport, United Kingdom), Fantasia revisited
Bishko, Leslie (Ohio State University), The Use of Labian Analysis for the Discussion of Computer Animation
Carr, Steve (University of Texas at Austin), Coon or Cohen? Animation and the Transmutable Ethnic Stereotype
Cartwright, Lisa (University of Rochester / Brown University), ‘The Ultimate Force Multiplier’: Army Aviation Training Flight Simulation Missions and the Decline of the Referential in Mass Media
Chisholm, Brad (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Stooping The Simpsons (and Looking at them Again)
Cholodenko, Alan (University of Sydney), Speculations on the Animatic Automation
Clancy, Keith W. (University of Sydney), In the Blink of an Eye: Animation and the Division of the Present
Cohen, Karl (San Francisco), The Investigation of Alleged Communists in the Animation Industry
Couzin, Sharon (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), The Woman’s Voice in Contemporary American Animation
De Cordova, Richard (DePaul University), The Mickey in Macy’s Window: Childhood, Consumerism and Disney Animation
DelGaudio, Sybil (Hofstra University, New York), Acts of Faith: The Works of Faith Hubley
Deneroff, Harvey (Los Angeles), Are We Mice or Men? The 1941 Disney Strike
Frierson, Michael (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), Will Vinton and Clay Animation
Furniss, Maureen (University of Southern California), American Independent Animation, 1945-1965
Gentile, Phillip (University of Southern Mississippi), Line, Metamorphosis and the Modernist Impulse in the Films of Eggeling, McLaren and Breer
George, Russell (University of Kent at Canterbury), Primitivity in the Cartoon Text: The Language of Puns
Heil, R. Douglas (University of Winsconsin, Oshkosh), Visualising Subversion: Shaping Form to Content at the Walter Lantz Studio
Kennedy, Gary (Carleton University, Ottawa), Cartoon All Stars To The Rescue: The New Recruits in the Drug War and the Animated World of Consumerism
Langer, Mark (Carleton University, Ottawa), Innovation and Industrial Competition: The Stereotypikcal and Multiplane Processes
Leskosky, Richard J. (University of Illinois, Urbana), Two-State Animation: The Thaumatrope and its Spin-Offs
McLaughlin, Dan (University of California, Los Angeles), The Visual in Disney’s Peter Pan
McLaughlin, Mary Serbia (California State University, Los Angeles), Two Worlds Reviewed: A Phenomenological Reading of Pat O’Neil’s Water and Power
McMillan, Robert (Ottowa), Transformations and Totemism: BugsBunny, Levi Strauss and Bateson.
Manovich, Lev (University of Rochester), Effects of the Real in Computer Animation
Ohmer, Susan (New York University), Plenty of Action and Just Enough Romance’: Debates around Disney’s Adaptation of Peter Pan
Prokhorov, Anatoly (Pilot Animation Studio, Moscow), Structure of Emile Cohl’s Films: Variational Forms on Screens
Roger, Andrew (National Archives of Canada, Ottowa), John Grierson Meets Donald Duck: The National Film Board of Canada and the Disney Studios
Rubin, Martin (Dallas), Rise and Fall of the Spot-Gag Cartoon
Smoodin, Eric (American University), A Night at the Movies: Ideology, The Film Bill and Audience Construction
Staven, Karl (Ithaca College), Collaborative Animated Films: Less Than the Sum of Their Parts?
Vartanian, Carolyn Reed (University of Southern California), Animated Characters and Commercials
Wallace, Anne D. (University of Southern California), Legibility, Literacy and Authority: Bakshi’s Reality Codes in The Lord of the Rings
Walz, Gene (University of Manitoba), Character Design in Animation: The Case of Charlie Thorson
Williams, J.P. (Georgia Southern University), Lois Lane and the War Effort: Narrative and Gender Construction in Superman

FOURTH ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE, 23-25 October 1992
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA    

Teach animation

Grush, Byron, Digital Technology and Teaching Animation
Mones-Hattal, Barbara, Figure to Field – Computer Animation
Schwartz, Gary, Teaching Animation to Prisoners

Animation Theory

Denslow, Phil (Atlanta, Georgia), What is Animation and Who Needs to Know?
Wright, Prescott, The ASIFA Definition of Animation
Van Baerle, Susan, An Expanded Definition for Animation for the Virtual Reality Era.
Williams, Suzanne, Towards Establishing Assumptions and Theoretical Framework for Value Analysis of Animated Texts
Klein, Norman, Animation in Real Space

Applied methodology

Ohmer, Susan, Towards an Industrial History of American Animation: 1940s Economic and Structural Changes
McNamara, Marty (USA), Script Evolution and Story Adaptation
Kennedy, Gary, Young Sherlock Holmes: Popular Hero and the Technological Imagination
Langer, Mark (Carleton University, Ottawa), Ren & Stimpy, Animatophilia and the Trash Aesthetic
Deneroff, Harvey (Los Angeles), John Matthews’ Children’s Animation
Gurevich, Michael, Animopolis or Urbanimation?

Historical Perspectives

McLaughlin, Dan, Animation before Film
Leskosky, Richard, Phenakistoscopes
Frierson, Michael (University of North Carolina), Early Pioneers in Clay Animation
Ferriter, Christine, Joie de Vivre, Art Historical Context
Dill, Jane, Jules Engel: Film Artist
Furniss, Maureen, Abstraction in Film: Techniques and Relationships
Gene Walz (University of Manitoba), Frédéric Back
DelGaudio, Sybil (Hofstra University, New York), Blues, Breaks, Lines and Shapes: Jazz and Animation at the Hubley Studio

Animation propaganda

Carr, Steve, Stereotypes in 1930s Cartoons
Mastronardi, Michael, Bugs Bunny and FDR Go To War
Penkoff, Diane, Slipping ’em a Mickey? The Enchantment of Alcohol in Disney Animated Films
Knapp, Trischa, Popular Political Culture: Rocky & Bullwinkle and the Cold War
Cohen, Karl, Methods of Censorship for Animated Features and TV

Women and animation

Beams, Mary, Subverting Time: A Woman’s Perspective
Moritz, William (California Institute of the Arts), The Genius of Lotte Reiniger
Allen, Robin (InterTheatre, Stockport, United Kingdom), Sylvia Holland, Disney Artist
Vartanian, Carolyn, We’re Not Bad, We’re Just Drawn That Way – Animated Women: Cool World and Roger Rabbit
Priestley, Joanna, Faith Hubley: Creating a Healing Mythology

FIFTH ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE, 26-28 November 1993
Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Surrey, United Kingdom    

History and culture

Bendazzi, Giannalberto (Italy), La Rosa Di Bagdad: The first full length Italian animated feature film

Orientalism

Sharman, Leslie (United Kingdom), The Thief of Buena Vista: Disney’s Aladdin and the Orientalism Debate
White, Timothy, & Winn, Emmett (Singapore), Allah versus Disney in the South China Sea

The body

McLaughlin, Dan (USA), Beauty and Beastiality Pummell, Simon (United Kingdom), Francis Bacon and Walt Disney Revisited Wells, Paul (De Montfort Uiversity), Body Conciousness in the Films of Jan Svankmajer

Technology

Carels, Edwin (Belgium), Old Techniques in New Technologies
Guldin, Jere (USA), Processed by Cinecolor: The Use of the Color Process in Animation
Leskosky, Richard, (USA), Zoetrope: History and Uses

History

Williams, Susanne H. (USA), The Many Incarnations of Two American Superheroes
O’Brien, Kevin (USA), Chuck Jones / MGM
Russ, Paul (USA), Felix the Cat as Chaplin’s Cartoon Persona
Wagner, Hart (USA), Tom Death and Jerry Saviour: Chuck Jones Haunted Mouse and the Harrowing of Hell.
Williams, David (United Kingdom), Sniffles – The Mouse that Chuck Built

Technology and computers

Darley, Andy (Surrey Institute of Art & Design), Computer Animation: Second Order Realism & Post-Modern Aesthetics
Wright, Richard (United Kingdom), Visual Technology and the Poetics of Knowlegde

Aesthetics

Kirkham, Pat (United Kingdom), Science, Technology, History and Philosophy Made Easy and Accessible
Noake, Roger (United Kingdom),The End in Sight: Historical Narrative in Animation and Posthistoire
O’Connell, Kenneth (USA), The Missing UPA Films: Cartoons and Modern Art
O’Pray, Mike (University East London), Eisenstein, Stokes and Disney: Animation and the Omnipotence of Thought

Culture and identity

Allan, Robin, (InterTheatre, United Kingdom), Gustav Tenggren and European influences on Early Disney Feature Animation
Egbert Barten & Mette Peters (The Netherlands), Animating for the Enemy: Animation Films in Holland 1940-45
Knapp, Trischa (USA), The New Spirit Income Taxes: Donald Duck, Persuasion and World War II
Moritz, William (California Institute of the Arts), The Idea: Bartosch & Masereel

SIXTH ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE, 6-9 October 1994
San Francisco State University, USA

International abstracts

Noake, Roger (Surrey Institute of Art & Design), The Witchetty Grub – Len Lye’s Model of Communication
Darley, Andrew (Surrey Institute of Art & Design), The British Documentary Tradition and New-Animated Non-Fiction
Bendazzi, Giannalberto (Italy), Osvaldo Cavandoli: A Life on the Line
Langer, Mark (Carleton University, Ottawa), Why the Atom is Our Friend: Disney and State Interests
Hu, Gigi (Singapore), Adaption of Traditional Ethnic Narratives into Half-English
Williams, David (United Kingdom), The Fantasia That Wasn’t Quite
Law, Sandra (University of Calgary), Putting Themselves in the Picture – Female Images in the Work of Selected Women Animators in the UK
Walz, Gene (University of Manitoba), Charlie Thorson and the Fleischer Brothers Studio at Twilight
Knight, Laura (Jackdaw Media, Liverpool, United Kingdom), New British Documentary: Zoetrope Artists
Pilling, Jayne (British Film Institute), Genre Redefinition: Redocumenting the Real
Palmer, Roger (LaTrobe University, Australia), Cultural Difference in Reading American Animation Down Under
Gurevich, Mikhail (Russia / USA), Literary Poetics and Animation Stylistics

American abstracts

Engel, Jules (California Institute of the Arts), Experimental Animation: Art in Motion
Mikulak, William (University of Pensylvania), Bugs and Oscar: A History of Animation Exhibition Practices at the Museum of Modern Art, NY
DelGaudio, Sybil (Hofstra University, New York), Journey to the Mystery Place: Indigenous Forms in Faith Hubley’s Cloudland and Tall-Times Tales
Cohen, Karl (San Francisco), Importance of FBI’s Walt Disney File to Animation Scholars
Rubin, Jon (Brooklyn), Preview of ‘Cartoon Chronicles’ CD-ROM
McLaughlin, Dan (University of California, Los Angeles), Animating Interactive Multimedia
Gorringe, Carrie (Seattle), Blues in the Night(club): The Characterisation of Female Sexuality and Wartime Tensions in Coal Black an de Seven Dwarfs and Red Hot Riding Hood
Griffin, Sean (Los Angeles), I’ll Give You Such a Pinch: The ‘Queerness’ of Animation
Sandler, Kevin (New York University), Gendered Envasion: Bugs Bunny in Drag
Blonder, Roger (University of California, Los Angeles), Mosquitoes, Dinosaurs and the Image-ination
Frierson, Michael (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), A Close Reading of A Nightmare Before Christmas
Leskosky, Richard (University of Illinois, Urbana), Animation by the Side of the Road: Fixed Art / Moving Spectators
Williams, Suzanne (Trinity University), Business, Regulatory and Social Structures Leading to Narrative Forms in Contemporary American Animation
Moritz, William (California Institute of the Arts), Narrative Strategies in Borowczyk, Lenica’s Home, Priit Pärn’s Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe and Yori Norstein’s Tale of Tales
Staven, Karl (New York), Anijamming: Thematic Devices of a Burgeoning Sub-genre
Morse, Deanne (Grand Valley State University), Evolution in Computer Animation Art and Design in Siggraph 1994
McNamara, Martin (San Francisco), Animated John Henry: Race and Gender Subtexts in Heroic Legend
Deneroff, Harvey (Los Angeles), Structural Changes in American Animation Relating to Employment Patterns, 1937-1994
Ohmer, Susan (CUNY / College of Staten Island), Myth and Marketing: Disney Production Documentaries

SEVENTH ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE, 29 September to 1 October 1995
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA

Disney

Sweeney, Gael (Syracuse University), ‘What Do You Want Me to Do, Dress in Drag and Do the Hula?’: Pumbea and Timon’s Alternative Life Style Dilemma in Disney’s The Lion King
Griffin, Sean (University of California, Los Angeles), I’ll Give You Such a Pinch: ‘Queering’ Animation
Muwzea, Adwoa X. (Wayne State), Discourse on Disney and the Legend of Sundiata
O’Brien, Pamela C. (Indiana University), Everybody’s Busy Bringing You a Disney Afternoon: The Creation of a Consumption Community
Ohmer, Suzan (CUNY), On the Edge: Economic and Industrial Restraints on Animation in the 1940s
Williams, David (United Kingdom), The Dope on Dopey: The Development of Character Personality in Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

International Movements

Darley, Andrew (Surrey Institute of Art & Design), Recent Experimental, Nonfiction Animation in the UK
Lent, John A. The Status of Animation in Asia Based on Interviews with Animators in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand and India
Herron, Alastair (University of Ulster), Practical Animation Yield in a Time of Restraint: An Irish Experience
McNamara, Martin, Manipulation of Line in East European Animation: Jankovics and Drajic

Authorship

Springfield, Susan (SMU), Animation and German Expressionist Film: The Silhouette Films of Lotte Reiniger
Frierson, Michael, (University of North Carolina), Tim Burton’s Early Works: Vincent and Frankenweenie
Noake, Roger (Surrey Institute of Art and Design), A World Enough and Time: George Dunning

Technology and animation

Crafton, Donald (UWM), Mickey Mouse on Broadway
Furniss, Maureen (Chapman University), The Effects of New Technologies on Made-for-Television Animation
Langer, Mark (Carleton University, Ottawa), Ko-Ko in Context: A Study in Early Technology and Organisation
Leskosky, Richard (University of Illinois, Urbana), The Animation Inventions of Willis O’Brien
Bosworth, Leah M. (RIT), An Analysis of Four Direct-On-Film Animators
Lindvall, terry (Regent University), Darker Shades of Animation History: Cartoon Images of African Americans
Cohen, Karl (San Francisco), How Criticism Helped Bring About the End of Black Stereotypes in Animation

Animation and culture

DelGaudio, Sybil, (Hofstra University, New York), If ‘Truth’ Be Told, Can ‘Toons’ Tell It?: Animation and Documentary
Sandler, Kevin (New York University), Gender-Mania: Anthropomorphization in Animaniacs
Raffaelli, Luca (Italy), Conflicts Between Generations in the Animated Series

Animation and sponsorship

Saks, Ron (Columbus College), The Making of Ted D. Bear: The Pitfalls of Client / Student / Classroom Relationship
Rapf, Maurice (Dartmouth College), Animation in the Sponsored Film

EIGHT ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE, 25-29 September 1996
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA    

Animation technology

Leskosky, Richard (University of Illinois, Urbana), The History and Technical Development of the Mutoscope
Shaffer, Carolyn (University of Wisconsin, Madison), The Technology of Stop-Motion Animation
McLaughlin, Dan (University of California, Los Angeles), The Role of Animation in the New Digital Media
Rubin, Jon (Cooper Union), Animation and New Technology

Animation and other forms

Gurevich, Mikhail (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Literary Animation: Problem/Image of the Text
Bishko, Leslie (Simon Fraser University), Laban Analysis of Squash and Stretch
Furniss, Maureen & Beal, Anthony (Chapman University, Orange), The Adaptation of Japanese Animation Series for Use on American Television

Japanese animation

Desser, David (University of Illinois, Urbana), Why Anime?
Bordwell, David (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Stylistic Transformations Between Live-Action and Animation in Japanese Cinema

Animation and ‘live’ cinema

Becker, Christine (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Cross-Over Aesthetics: Frank Tashlin’s Cartoons and Live Action Films
Sartin, Hank (NotreDame University), Anything For My Public: Bugs Bunny and the Problems of Cartoon Stardom

Representing the ‘Other’

Mittell, Jason (University of Wisconsin, Madison), I’m Not Black, I’m Just Drawn That Way
Frierson, Michael (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), The Image of the Hillbilly in Warner Bros. Cartoons of the 1930s
Sieving, Christopher (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Mouse Trouble: A Social Analysis of MGM’s Tom and Jerry Cartoons

Animation in World War II

Okamoto, Rei (Temple University, USA), Ideological Representations and Cultural Myths in a Japanese Wartime Animated Film, Momotaro – Divine Troops of the Ocean
DelGaudio, Sybil (Hofstra University, New York), What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? Animation and WWII Training Films

Social constructions of cartoon stardom

Desilets, Michael, International Migration of Cartoon Stars
Sartin, Hank, Anything For My Public: Bugs Bunny and the Problem of cartoon Stardom

International Media

Lent, John A. (Temple University, USA), Korean Animation: The Boom Years
Camp, Brian (NUY/CUNY-TV), The Evolution of Street Fighter: From Video Game to Spiritual Quest

Historical observations

Moritz, William (California Institute of the Arts), Abstract Dreams
Williams, David (United Kingdom), Animating the Inanimate

Codes of realism

Kreul, James (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Why Composite Roger Rabbit?
Fay, Jennifer (University of Wisconsin, Madison), The Cameraman’s Revenge: The Reality Status of the Image

Textual evolutions

Langer, Mark (Carleton University, Ottawa), Northern Silhouettes: The Works of Bryant Fryer
Allan, Robin (InterTheatre, United Kingdom), Alice in Disneyland: The Gestation and Creation of the Animated Feature Film

NINTH ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE, 8-12 October 1997
University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands    

Thalmann, Nadia (Switzerland), Overview of the State of the Art in Human Figure Modeling Animation

Animation and History: Europe & USA

Peters, Mette (The Netherlands), De Moord van Raamsdonk: Dutch Shadow Show becomes Silhouette Film
Pavlov, Boris (Filmmuseum, Russia), Animation in the ‘Russian Hollywood’ of the 1920-1930’s
Strøm, Gunnar (Møre og Romsdal College, Norway), Desider Gross and Gasparcolor: European Producers, Norwegian Product: On Animated Cinema Commercials from the 1930’s
DelGaudio, Sybil (Hofstra University, USA), Anonimity vs. Identity: The Uncredited Work of John and Faith Hubley
Allan, Robin (InterTheatre, United Kingdom), Europe through American Eyes at the Disney Coal Face: The Contribution of Bob Jones, Engineer and Puppeteer, to Pinocchio and Fantasia
Furniss, Maureen (Chapman University, USA), Stars and Stripes: Animation in American Advertising
Langer, Mark (Carleton University, Canada), Disney, Nixon and Cold War Animation
Sandler, Kevin (USA), Looney Tunes and Merry Metonyms: Disneyfication, Identity Politics, and the Corporatizing of Bugs Bunny
Goergen, Jean Paul (Germany), Discovering Paul Peroff
Moritz, William (California Institute of the Arts), Absolute Film: The Next Generation
Floquet, Pierre (Bordeaux University, France), Tex Avery’s Comic Language: 10 Years of Creation at MGM, 1942-1951
McNamara, Martin (USA), Patterns of Social Metaphor in New German Animation

Animation and Technology

Leskosky, Richard (USA), The Quest of Depth: Mechanics and Aesthetics of the American Animated Cartoon
Izvolov, Nicolai (Russia), The History of Drawn Sound in Soviet Russia
McLaughlin, Dan (University of California, USA), It’s About Time

Animation and Other Media

Moins, Philippe (Belgium), Animation in Belgium: The Longstanding Relationship between the World of Publishing and the Cinema in Belgium
Williams, David (United Kingdom), Sons of the Drawing Board: Laurel and Hardy as Cartoon Characters
Rijken, Arnoud & Bas Brinkman (The Netherlands), Strangers in a Strange Land: on the Dramaturgy of Animation
Carels, Edwin (Belgium), 1895: Animation, History and the Metafilm
Buchan, Suzanne (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Vision Animated to the Bursting Point: Stylistics of Metamorphosis in Text and Film
Muhr, Gunilla (Stockholm University, Sweden), High, Low or In-between: Disney’s 1930’s Cartoon Symphonies
Kester, Bernadette (Erasmus University, The Netherlands), Emancipating from Realism?: Historical Representations in Animation Films

Animation and Perception

Mukerji, Chandra & Tarleton Gillespie (University of California, USA), Recognizable Ambiguity: Cartoon Imagery and American Childhood in Animaniacs
Yokota, Masao (Nihon University, Japan), Face Preference of Animation Characters by Japanese University Students
Prokhorov, Anatoly (Pilot Animation Studio, Moscow), Space as a Screen, Perception as an Illusion, Culture as Sorcery

Animation in Different Cultures

Lent, John & Asli Tunc (Temple University, USA), Animation in Turkey: Historical and Contemporary Problem Analyses
Gamarra, Edward (Emory University, USA), Animus, Anima, Anime: A Jungian Approach to Japanese Animation
Trymbach, Sergij (Ukraine), Ukrainian Animated Movie in the Space of the National Cinema Culture

TENTH ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE, 6-16 August 1998
Chapman University, Anaheim, USA

Guldin, Jere, Puppetoons Screening and Panel on the Future of Stop-Motion Animation
Bryman, Alan, Theorizing the Early Technologies of Animation
Leskosky, Richard J. (USA), Animation on the Outer Curve
Fleischer Zucker, Barabara, Anna Curtis Chandler: A Storyteller Who Could Keep Them from the Movies
Padilla, Chris, The Development of American Animation Festivals
Gillespie, Tarleton, Toy Story and Consumer Culture
Muhr, Gunilla, Aesthetic Strategies of the Disney Studio in the 1930’s
Walz, Gene, Charlie Thorson and the Twilight of Fleischer Studios
Floquet, Pierre (France), From Tex Avery’s Debut to the Beginning of His End: Recurring Theme and Evolving Style
Yokota, Masao and Koji Nomura (Japan), The Impact of Miyazaki Hyao’s Feature Animations on Japanese Audiences
Frierson, Michael, Clay Animation in Interactive Games
Ohmer, Susan, Competitive Strategies at the Blue Sky Studios and Curious Pictures
Kaufman, J.B., Variations on a Mouse
Klein, Tom, Tex Avery on Trial!
Langer, Mark (Canada), The Freak Show Cultural Tradition in American Animation
Callahan, Vicki, Animating the Body in the Virtual Landscape
Raffaelli, Luca (Italy), Death and Animation
Cholodenko, Alan (Australia), The Illusion of the Beginning, or, In the Beginning Will Have Been the End
DelGaudio, Sybil, The Hubleys and Human Growth
Bond, Rose and Ruth Hayes, Northwest Animation: The Roots of Creative Variance
Tomlinson, Lynn, Launching (From) The Quays
Ehrlich, David (USA), The Beginning of the ‘ASIFA Presents’ Collaboration Films: Aesthetic and Political Problem Solving
Kreutz, Rune, Absolute films and the Consequences of Abstraction
Haller, Robert A., Jim Davis: The First Eight Years
Crone, Ton (The Netherlands), The beginning of the Netherlands Institute for Animation Film
Goethals, Johann (Belgium), The Academy of Ghent: The First Animation Department in Europe?
Goergen, Jean Paul (Germany), Puppet Animation Film in Germany from 1915-1945
Jackson, Wendy, Czechoslovakian Animation under Soviet Occupation
Lent, John A. and Asli Tunc, Women and Animation in Turkey
Bradbury, Keith (Australia), Australian Animation before Disney in Australia-Harry Julius
Phillips, Nick, SIIARA and Bob Godfrey
Williams, David (United Kingdom), From Cat to Mouse: Sheila Graber, UK Animator
Allan, Robin (InterTheatre, United Kingdom), Disney’s Make Mine Music: An End and a Beginning

ELEVENTH ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE, 3-6 August 1999
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia    

Bouldin, Joanna (USA), Wabbit Twouble: Bugs Bunny, Drag and the Gender-Bendable Body
Knight, Laura (United Kingdom), Mixing it: Image manipulation trends in UK contemporary short form animation
Burgess, Colin, The Shell Film Unit: Beginnings
Strøm, Gunnar (Norway), Desider Gross and Gasparcolor – two years after
Goergen, Jean Paul (Germany), The History of Hand Drawn Sound in Germany (1932)
Crogan, Patrick (Australia), Perspectives in 3D animation in Australia
Leskosky, Richard (USA), Animating between the Lines: Grid Animation
Vasseleu, Cathryn, The Moving Image and Spectacular Animation
Langer, Mark (Canada), Cyborgs before Computers: The Rotoscope as Prosthesis
Farley, Rebecca, Play and Transformation: The Animated Aesthetic
Oancea, Sorin, Jan Svankmajer: Alchemist or Social Critic?
Dawson, Jonathan (Australia), A Regional Life – Images of Queensland and the animation of Max Bannah
Begg, Jane (Australia), Silicon Pulp
Palmer, Roger (Australia), The National Style: a case of ‘Footrot Flats’
Cholodenko, Alan (Australia), Apocalyptic Anime: In the Wake of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Godzilla
Schaeffer, William, Struggling with an Invisible Hand: Exploring the Specificity of Animation, From Cohl to Kricfalusi
Furniss, Maureen (USA), Real Time Aesthetics

Asia-Pacific Focus

Dobson, Terence (New Zealand), The Filmmaker as Overseas Aid: Norman McLaren in Asia
Yokota, Masao (Japan), Isao Takahata; The Animation Director who worries about the Mental Health of the Young Generation
Routt, William (Australia), Stillness and (e) motion in Neon Genesis Evangelion
Floquet, Pierre (France), Avery’s World in Asterix Land
Williams-Rautiola, Suzanne (USA), The Aesthetics of 3D Computer Animation in Television Programming
Wulf, Junia (Australia), Voice Actors: Are they being heard in the Animation Industry
McLaughlin, Dan (USA), Z Axis Animation and the Free Lancing of Bill Littlejohn

TWELFTH ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE, 5-9 August 2000
University of Trondheim, Norway    

Digital topics

Knight, Laura (Staffordshire University, United Kingdom), From Flip to Zip: Patterns of Delivering Animation Education to Pre Degree Students as Part of a School Curriculum
Palmer, Roger (Australia), The Animated Image: Tradition versus Technology Down-Under
Childs, Lucy (University of Luton, United Kingdom), The Ghost of Happy Accident
Southall, John (United Kingdom), Expanding Boundaries – Setting Boundaries: The Role of Theory and Paradigms in Understanding Developments in Animation
Bradbury, Keith (Griffith University, Australia), Towards a Spiritualist Aesthetic: Boundaries in Cyberspace?
Estela Graca, Marina (Universidade do Algarve, Portugal), Physiology: towards Animation Poetics
Watson, Paul (United Kingdom), The World Well Lost

Other topics

Strøm, Gunnar (Volda University Highschool, Norway), The Animated Documentary: a Performative Tradition
Floquet, Pierre (Ecole Nationale Supèrieure d’Electronique et de Radioèlectricitè de Bordeaux, France), Animated Characters: Actioned, or Actors?
Leskosky, Richard J. (University of Illinois, USA), J. R. Bray’s 1916 Animation Patent
Allan, Robin (InterTheatre, United Kingdom), Fantasia Now and Then: an Exploration of the New Fantasia 2000 compared with its 1940 Forerunner
Williams, David (United Kingdom), A Line in Your Lap
Goergen, Jean Paul (Germany), Animated Propaganda in Germany
Peters, Mette & Egbert Barten (The Netherlands), Mostly Hidden Away: Animation Film in the Netherlands 1940-1945

Asia Panel

Lent, John, A., Animation in South and Southeast Asia
Ying, Xu, Animation in Bejing
Holmen, K. Hee OH (California Institute of the Arts, USA), Cross Cultural References in Japanese Animation: A Survey on Kiki’s Delivery Service with Scandinavian Audience
Yokota, Masao, Masashi Koide, and Koji Nomura (Nihon University, Japan), Psychological Dependence in Japanese Animation films: A Case of Rin Taro