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Editorial Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 5(3) 275 –278 © The Author(s) 2010 Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1746847710390080 anm.sagepub.com Dealing with a historical range of animation films spanning over a century, from Winsor McCay through early and mid-Disney to contemporary independent UK animation and comics-based works, on closer inspection this issue’s articles reveal a shared interest in narrative aesthetics of animation, convergence, hybridity and in drawing. Erwin Feyersinger’s ‘Diegetic Short Circuits: Metalepsis in Animation’ draws on literary theory, specifically narratology and metalepsis, that he suggests is ‘a highly striking phenomenon…that has not been theorized in animation studies so far.’ Fersinger provides a number of convincing arguments for why this term allows paradoxical transgressions of separate representational and mimetic diegetic worlds. Locating his discussion in writings of a number of key theorists from a range of disciplines, he suggests a transmedial approach can be suited to a wide band of media including those that use animation. Feyersinger then explores this in a number of specific animation films, highlighting convergence of otherwise distinct diegetic worlds. These include the ‘real world’ animator author’s intrusion into the ani- mated realm (Emile Cohl, Fleischer Brothers), metalepsis within framed worlds (Felix the Cat) and embedded worlds http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal SAGE

Editorial

Buchan, Suzanne
Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal , Volume 5 (3): 4 – Nov 1, 2010
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Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 5(3) 275 –278 © The Author(s) 2010 Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1746847710390080 anm.sagepub.com Dealing with a historical range of animation films spanning over a century, from Winsor McCay through early and mid-Disney to contemporary independent UK animation and comics-based works, on closer inspection this issue’s articles reveal a shared interest in narrative aesthetics of animation, convergence, hybridity and in drawing. Erwin Feyersinger’s ‘Diegetic Short Circuits: Metalepsis in Animation’ draws on literary theory, specifically narratology and metalepsis, that he suggests is ‘a highly striking phenomenon…that has not been theorized in animation studies so far.’ Fersinger provides a number of convincing arguments for why this term allows paradoxical transgressions of separate representational and mimetic diegetic worlds. Locating his discussion in writings of a number of key theorists from a range of disciplines, he suggests a transmedial approach can be suited to a wide band of media including those that use animation. Feyersinger then explores this in a number of specific animation films, highlighting convergence of otherwise distinct diegetic worlds. These include the ‘real world’ animator author’s intrusion into the ani- mated realm (Emile Cohl, Fleischer Brothers), metalepsis within framed worlds (Felix the Cat) and embedded worlds

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