The Illusion of Life II: More Essays on Animation

About this book

The Illusion of Life II 2 continues and extends the pioneering work in the theory of animation begun in The Illusion of Life: Essays on Animation. It provides an abundance of understandings approaches correctives and challenges to scholars not only in animation studies and film studies but in disciplines across the spectrum. It proceeds on the assumption that animation in increasingly taking center stage thanks to computer animation and anime calls ever more insistently for focused rigorous theoretical attention. The sixteen essays composing the collection engage with post-World War II film animation in Japan and the United States as well as with the expanded field of animation including: the relation of live action and animation; video and computer games the electronic digitally animated mediascape the city flight simulation the military and war; and animation in the entertainment industry. In addition it contains essays of a more general theoretical nature on animation as well as a substantial introduction addressing developments in animation and its theorizing.