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Drawn from Life, a multidisciplinary anthology, introduces readers to a diverse range of filmmakers past and present who use the animated image as a documentary tool. In doing so, it explores a range of questions that preoccupy twenty-first-century film artists and audiences alike: Why use animation to document? How do such images reflect and influence our understanding and experience of'reality'? From early cinema to present-day scientific research, military uses, digital art and gaming, Drawn from Life casts new light on the capacity of the moving image to act as a record of the world around us.
Drawn from Life, a multidisciplinary anthology, introduces readers to a diverse range of filmmakers past and present who use the animated image as a documentary tool. In doing so, it explores a range of questions that preoccupy twenty-first-century film artists and audiences alike: Why use animation to document? How do such images reflect and influence our understanding and experience of'reality'? From early cinema to present-day scientific research, military uses, digital art and gaming, Drawn from Life casts new light on the capacity of the moving image to act as a record of the world around us.
The first book to explore the field of animated documentaries from a diverse range of scholarly and practice-based perspectives. Defines the central characteristics of the animated documentary film. Challenges and extends orthodox definitions of documentary cinema as well as animation. Surveys a diverse range of film works, genres, production techniques, historical eras, and cultural contexts.
Jonathan Murray is Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at Edinburgh College of Art. Nea Ehrlich recently completed her PhD in Art History at the University of Edinburgh.
Animation has become a vital documentary tool. How and why did this
happen? Find the answer in this brilliant assembly of
ground-breaking essays.--Bill Nichols, author of Introduction to
Documentary 3rd edition (2017)
The work of the editors and chapter authors provides a valuable
collection of information, philosophical thought and production
considerations that every animation teacher, researcher and
practitioner need to read and have handy. It will serve as a
reference and provide guidance for their own investigation as well
as for that of their students.--Robert Musburger "Animationstudies
2.0"
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