Animating Film Theory

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By Karen Beckman *99

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(Duke University Press) Animation largely has been excluded from film theory; this collection of essays considers reasons for the marginalization of animated film, while bringing attention to key historical contributions across a wide range of animation practices, geographic and linguistic terrains, and historical periods. Beckman is a professor of cinema and modern media in the department of art history at the University of Pennsylvania.

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