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Introduction to the Special Issue: New Perspectives on Animation Historiography

Introduction to the Special Issue: New Perspectives on Animation Historiography 1085619 ANM0010.1177/17468477221085619AnimationBieberstein and Feyersinger research-article2022 Special Issue: Introduction animation: an interdisciplinary journal 2022, Vol. 17(1) 5 –9 Introduction to the Special © The Author(s) 2022 Issue: New Perspectives on Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions Animation Historiography https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477221085619 DOI: 10.1177/17468477221085619 journals.sagepub.com/home/anm Rada Bieberstein Independent Scholar Erwin Feyersinger University of Tübingen, Germany Animation is strongly metamorphic. Not only in the sense of the omnipresent audiovisual and nar- rative changes we encounter in animated images, but it is animation itself that constantly trans- forms, shifts and expands (Wells and Hardstaff, 2008: 16). Therefore, our artistic and theoretical conceptions of animation constantly morph as well. These paradigmatic changes are further fuelled by the rapid emergence of new media technologies and their cultural implications (see, for exam- ple, Leslie and McKim, 2017). To account for this metamorphic nature of the field, it is helpful to conceive animation not as one single phenomenon but rather as a multitude of phenomena that are connected, in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s sense, by Familienähnlichkeit (which is usually translated as family resemblance), i.e. by overlapping features that are not necessarily shared by all phenomena (Wittgenstein, 1999: 31–32). In relation to historiography, a recognition of animation’s heterogene- ity offers a fresh look at http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal SAGE

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1085619 ANM0010.1177/17468477221085619AnimationBieberstein and Feyersinger research-article2022 Special Issue: Introduction animation: an interdisciplinary journal 2022, Vol. 17(1) 5 –9 Introduction to the Special © The Author(s) 2022 Issue: New Perspectives on Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions Animation Historiography https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477221085619 DOI: 10.1177/17468477221085619 journals.sagepub.com/home/anm Rada Bieberstein Independent Scholar Erwin Feyersinger University of Tübingen, Germany Animation is strongly metamorphic. Not only in the sense of the omnipresent audiovisual and nar- rative changes we encounter in animated images, but it is animation itself that constantly trans- forms, shifts and expands (Wells and Hardstaff, 2008: 16). Therefore, our artistic and theoretical conceptions of animation constantly morph as well. These paradigmatic changes are further fuelled by the rapid emergence of new media technologies and their cultural implications (see, for exam- ple, Leslie and McKim, 2017). To account for this metamorphic nature of the field, it is helpful to conceive animation not as one single phenomenon but rather as a multitude of phenomena that are connected, in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s sense, by Familienähnlichkeit (which is usually translated as family resemblance), i.e. by overlapping features that are not necessarily shared by all phenomena (Wittgenstein, 1999: 31–32). In relation to historiography, a recognition of animation’s heterogene- ity offers a fresh look at

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