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Book review: The Animation Studies Reader

Book review: The Animation Studies Reader 937444 ANM0010.1177/1746847720937444AnimationBook reviews book-review2020 Book reviews animation: an interdisciplinary journal 2020, Vol. 15(2) 193 –201 Book reviews © The Author(s) 2020 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/1746847720937444 DOI: 10.1177/1746847720937444 journals.sagepub.com/home/anm Nichola Dobson, Annabelle Honess Roe, Amy Ratelle and Caroline Ruddell (eds), The Animation Studies Reader. London: Bloomsbury, 2019: 336 pp.; 9781501332609, £23.99 (pbk) Eddie Falvey Plymouth College of Art, UK As co-editors Nichola Dobson, Annabelle Honess Roe, Amy Ratelle and Caroline Ruddell estab- lish in their concise introduction, the legitimation of animation has already taken place, so it is not this volume’s charge to perform any function of that kind. Rather, what the volume offers is a dynamic collection of insights from an impressive roster of specialists into the ways in which debates have developed across the field. Historical panoramas of animation are plentiful (see key works by Gianalberto Bendazzi, 2015–2016, and Maureen Furniss, 2017), but less available is an up-to-date survey of the ‘key lines of enquiry’ (p. 1) that this volume seeks to provide. Part one, ‘Theory, Philosophy and Concepts’, opens with Lilly Husbands’ and Caroline Ruddell’s co-written chapter on approaches to the medium. The authors identify the prevailing ontological and phenomenological themes that undercut much of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Animation SAGE

Book review: The Animation Studies Reader

Falvey, Eddie
Animation , Volume 15 (2): 4 – Jul 1, 2020
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937444 ANM0010.1177/1746847720937444AnimationBook reviews book-review2020 Book reviews animation: an interdisciplinary journal 2020, Vol. 15(2) 193 –201 Book reviews © The Author(s) 2020 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/1746847720937444 DOI: 10.1177/1746847720937444 journals.sagepub.com/home/anm Nichola Dobson, Annabelle Honess Roe, Amy Ratelle and Caroline Ruddell (eds), The Animation Studies Reader. London: Bloomsbury, 2019: 336 pp.; 9781501332609, £23.99 (pbk) Eddie Falvey Plymouth College of Art, UK As co-editors Nichola Dobson, Annabelle Honess Roe, Amy Ratelle and Caroline Ruddell estab- lish in their concise introduction, the legitimation of animation has already taken place, so it is not this volume’s charge to perform any function of that kind. Rather, what the volume offers is a dynamic collection of insights from an impressive roster of specialists into the ways in which debates have developed across the field. Historical panoramas of animation are plentiful (see key works by Gianalberto Bendazzi, 2015–2016, and Maureen Furniss, 2017), but less available is an up-to-date survey of the ‘key lines of enquiry’ (p. 1) that this volume seeks to provide. Part one, ‘Theory, Philosophy and Concepts’, opens with Lilly Husbands’ and Caroline Ruddell’s co-written chapter on approaches to the medium. The authors identify the prevailing ontological and phenomenological themes that undercut much of the

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