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Book review: Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation

Book review: Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation 1114368 ANM0010.1177/17468477221114368animation: an interdisciplinary journalBook review book-review2022 Book review animation: an interdisciplinary journal 2022, Vol. 17(3) 347 –349 Book review © The Author(s) 2022 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477221114368 DOI: 10.1177/17468477221114368 journals.sagepub.com/home/anm Andrew R Johnston, Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 280 pp.; ISBN 978 0 8166 8529 5; $30 (pbk). Eric Herhuth Tulane University, New Orleans, USA Andrew R Johnston’s Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation makes a much-needed intervention in the study of cinema and animation. Claims that cinema is a subset of animation or subsumed by animation in the digital era tend to overlook the vicissitudes and variations that make up the history of animation. The ‘episodes’ that Johnston examines correct such overgeneralizations. These episodes center around artists working in the US during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s and problematize conventional categorizations of their work: that it belongs to either the mechanical arts or the new media of information processing, or, likewise, that it belongs to either political modernism or formal experimentation. By locating this work in a his- tory of animation, rather than experimental film, for instance, Johnston offers new descriptions of how http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Animation SAGE

Book review: Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation

Herhuth, Eric
Animation , Volume 17 (3): 3 – Nov 1, 2022
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1114368 ANM0010.1177/17468477221114368animation: an interdisciplinary journalBook review book-review2022 Book review animation: an interdisciplinary journal 2022, Vol. 17(3) 347 –349 Book review © The Author(s) 2022 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477221114368 DOI: 10.1177/17468477221114368 journals.sagepub.com/home/anm Andrew R Johnston, Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 280 pp.; ISBN 978 0 8166 8529 5; $30 (pbk). Eric Herhuth Tulane University, New Orleans, USA Andrew R Johnston’s Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation makes a much-needed intervention in the study of cinema and animation. Claims that cinema is a subset of animation or subsumed by animation in the digital era tend to overlook the vicissitudes and variations that make up the history of animation. The ‘episodes’ that Johnston examines correct such overgeneralizations. These episodes center around artists working in the US during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s and problematize conventional categorizations of their work: that it belongs to either the mechanical arts or the new media of information processing, or, likewise, that it belongs to either political modernism or formal experimentation. By locating this work in a his- tory of animation, rather than experimental film, for instance, Johnston offers new descriptions of how

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