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Editorial 708971 ANM0010.1177/1746847717720207 research-article2017 animation: an interdisciplinary journal 2017, Vol. 12(2) 107 –109 © The Author(s) 2017 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav https://doi.org/10.1177/1746847717720207 DOI: 10.1177/1746847717720207 journals.sagepub.com/home/anm Articles published in this journal over the years demonstrate how animation film can be approached through a number of disciplinary frameworks – from art history, cultural studies, and design to qualitative analysis or Asian philosophy or anthropology. This issue expands these and other approaches with some new ones. Film theory, in my view, is still underused as yet, and, as anima- tion is a moving image form of media, there is much to be gained by investigating animation through principles and theories of cinema. This is what Olga Blackledge undertakes in her article “Lev Kuleshov on Animation: Montaging the Image” in which she analyses articles and four lec- tures Kuleshov gave to Soviet animators in the 1930s, in a climate where animation was not highly regarded as a significant moving image form. She poses important questions about how and why this Soviet director’s theories of live-action cinema – specifically montage and acting – are rele- vant to our understanding of animation then and now. Blackledge explains the source materials’ origins and goes into great detail http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal SAGE

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Buchan, Suzanne
Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal , Volume 12 (2): 3 – Jul 1, 2017
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708971 ANM0010.1177/1746847717720207 research-article2017 animation: an interdisciplinary journal 2017, Vol. 12(2) 107 –109 © The Author(s) 2017 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav https://doi.org/10.1177/1746847717720207 DOI: 10.1177/1746847717720207 journals.sagepub.com/home/anm Articles published in this journal over the years demonstrate how animation film can be approached through a number of disciplinary frameworks – from art history, cultural studies, and design to qualitative analysis or Asian philosophy or anthropology. This issue expands these and other approaches with some new ones. Film theory, in my view, is still underused as yet, and, as anima- tion is a moving image form of media, there is much to be gained by investigating animation through principles and theories of cinema. This is what Olga Blackledge undertakes in her article “Lev Kuleshov on Animation: Montaging the Image” in which she analyses articles and four lec- tures Kuleshov gave to Soviet animators in the 1930s, in a climate where animation was not highly regarded as a significant moving image form. She poses important questions about how and why this Soviet director’s theories of live-action cinema – specifically montage and acting – are rele- vant to our understanding of animation then and now. Blackledge explains the source materials’ origins and goes into great detail

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