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Book review: Animating Film Theory

Book review: Animating Film Theory 710736 ANM0010.1177/1746847717710736AnimationBook review research-article2017 Book review animation: an interdisciplinary journal 2017, Vol. 12(2) 198 –202 Book review © The Author(s) 2017 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav https://doi.org/10.1177/1746847717710736 DOI: 10.1177/1746847717710736 journals.sagepub.com/home/anm Paul Wells Animation Academy, School of Arts, English and Drama, Loughborough University, UK Karen Beckman, ed., Animating Film Theory, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014: 359 pp.: ISBN 978 0 8223 5652 3. $99.95 (hbk), $27.95 (pbk) Karen Beckman’s exemplary collection of essays, Animating Film Theory, does sterling work of freshening theoretical assumptions in the extant literature in Animation Studies and challenging the canonical stasis of much Film Studies writing. The stasis is no surprise, of course, since Animation scholars have been much more beholden to address and note work in Film Studies, than scholars in Film Studies have been to look and see if anything of interest might be going on in the musings of the cartoon crowd. Indeed, it is probably only a crisis in Film Studies – i.e. the study of film itself – with the onset and consolidation of the digital era, that has brought more attention to ‘animation’, since the construction of contemporary film is now much closer to the conditions of making animation than http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal SAGE

Book review: Animating Film Theory

Wells, Paul
Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal , Volume 12 (2): 5 – Jul 1, 2017
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710736 ANM0010.1177/1746847717710736AnimationBook review research-article2017 Book review animation: an interdisciplinary journal 2017, Vol. 12(2) 198 –202 Book review © The Author(s) 2017 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav https://doi.org/10.1177/1746847717710736 DOI: 10.1177/1746847717710736 journals.sagepub.com/home/anm Paul Wells Animation Academy, School of Arts, English and Drama, Loughborough University, UK Karen Beckman, ed., Animating Film Theory, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014: 359 pp.: ISBN 978 0 8223 5652 3. $99.95 (hbk), $27.95 (pbk) Karen Beckman’s exemplary collection of essays, Animating Film Theory, does sterling work of freshening theoretical assumptions in the extant literature in Animation Studies and challenging the canonical stasis of much Film Studies writing. The stasis is no surprise, of course, since Animation scholars have been much more beholden to address and note work in Film Studies, than scholars in Film Studies have been to look and see if anything of interest might be going on in the musings of the cartoon crowd. Indeed, it is probably only a crisis in Film Studies – i.e. the study of film itself – with the onset and consolidation of the digital era, that has brought more attention to ‘animation’, since the construction of contemporary film is now much closer to the conditions of making animation than

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