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Introduction to the Special Issue Making It (Un)real: Contemporary Theories and Practices in Documentary Animation

Introduction to the Special Issue Making It (Un)real: Contemporary Theories and Practices in... 422496 ANMXXX10.1177/1746847711422496SkollerAnimation: An Interdisciplinary Journal Guest Editor’s Introduction Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6(3) 207 –214 Introduction to the Special Issue © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav Making It (Un)real: DOI: 10.1177/1746847711422496 anm.sagepub.com Contemporary Theories and Practices in Documentary Animation Jeffrey Skoller It is always a cause for celebration when the boundary lines that define genre and formal catego- ries begin to appear anachronistic and even useless for understanding contemporary film prac- tices. Once seen as structuring philosophical and aesthetic antinomies of film history, documentary and animation genres defined the lines between fact and fiction, indexical traces of the real and hand-made imaginings, truth and fancy, naturalism and expressionism. Such binaries no longer hold the same ontological power they once did for defining cinematic form or lines between the intellectually driven high art of the cinema and the anarchic lowbrow art of mass entertainment. As epistemological, technological and aesthetic transformations occur throughout our society, the binaries between the truth claims of documentary cinemas and the impressionisms of animated filmmaking seem increasingly irrelevant. The popular acceptance of recent hybrid forms that integrate animated – whether hand-drawn or digitally generated – imagery into documentary contexts signals a deepening awareness that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal SAGE

Introduction to the Special Issue Making It (Un)real: Contemporary Theories and Practices in Documentary Animation

Skoller, Jeffrey
Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal , Volume 6 (3): 8 – Nov 1, 2011
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422496 ANMXXX10.1177/1746847711422496SkollerAnimation: An Interdisciplinary Journal Guest Editor’s Introduction Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6(3) 207 –214 Introduction to the Special Issue © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav Making It (Un)real: DOI: 10.1177/1746847711422496 anm.sagepub.com Contemporary Theories and Practices in Documentary Animation Jeffrey Skoller It is always a cause for celebration when the boundary lines that define genre and formal catego- ries begin to appear anachronistic and even useless for understanding contemporary film prac- tices. Once seen as structuring philosophical and aesthetic antinomies of film history, documentary and animation genres defined the lines between fact and fiction, indexical traces of the real and hand-made imaginings, truth and fancy, naturalism and expressionism. Such binaries no longer hold the same ontological power they once did for defining cinematic form or lines between the intellectually driven high art of the cinema and the anarchic lowbrow art of mass entertainment. As epistemological, technological and aesthetic transformations occur throughout our society, the binaries between the truth claims of documentary cinemas and the impressionisms of animated filmmaking seem increasingly irrelevant. The popular acceptance of recent hybrid forms that integrate animated – whether hand-drawn or digitally generated – imagery into documentary contexts signals a deepening awareness that

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