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Bones of Contention: Thoughts on the Study of Animation

University College for the Creative Arts, Farnham, adarley{at}ucreative.ac.uk

Within the academy, animation is still a relatively under-studied subject field - though, clearly, this is beginning to change. This article is a polemical response to the nascent field of animation studies. It explores some implications of the marginalization of animation and confronts what it views as significant obstacles (and cul-de-sacs) with respect to the progress and consolidation of the subject as a legitimate field of scholarship. An overall approach is suggested which - in certain respects - is at odds with what has been undertaken in the field in the past and with what is professed as legitimate and epistemologically productive in the present.

Key Words: Animation Studies • digital film • essentialism • film studies debate • film theory

Animation, Vol. 2, No. 1, 63-76 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1746847706068902


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