All these mythological figures that we consider, at most, as allegorical material, at some level
are figurative resumes of a way of perceiving the world… The Bororo, for instance, claim that …

This essay (originally published in THE SEMIOTIC REVIEW OF BOOKS VOLUME 18.2
2008, republished here with permission) seeks to resurrect the name, work and …

What do we mean by the term" animation" when we are discussing film? Is it a technique? A
style? A way of seeing or experiencing" a world" that has little relation to our own lived …

One of the elements that separates live-action, photoreal cinema from animation is the line,
a conceptual meta-object that has no existence other than as an idea or a graphic …

The Art of Czech Animation is the first comprehensive English language account of Czech
animation from the 1920s to the present, covering both 2D animation forms and CGI, with a …

This book brings together a vibrant interdisciplinary mix of scholars–from anthropology,
architecture, art history, film studies, fine art, history, literature, linguistics and urban studies …

Soul, the traveling substance described above by Edward Tylor, is then movement
disincarnate. Three-dimensional bodies are mere containers of this mobile entity that is …

Abstract Amy Lawrence:“Counterfeit Motion: The Animated Films of Eadweard Muybridge.”
Since the 1970s, filmmakers have transformed Eadweard Muybridge's “motion study” …

In animation the issue of movement is central to any discussion of its nature, irrespective of
its form, style or process of creation. As an animator, Norman McLaren believed “the most …

In the 1870s, Leland Stanford allegedly wagered $25,000 to prove the theory that all four of
a horse's hooves leave the ground when it travels at a gallop. While the anecdote is largely …