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ABOUT THE BOOK

Winner of the 2017 McLaren-Lambart Award for Best Book on the Subject of Animation

Studying landscape in cinema isn't quite new; it'd be hard to imagine Woody Allen without New York, or the French New Wave without Paris. But the focus on live-action cinema leaves a significant gap in studying animated films. With the almost total pervasiveness of animation today, this collection provides the reader with a greater sense of how the animated landscapes of the present relate to those of the past. Including essays from international perspectives, Animated Landscapes introduces an idea that has seemed, literally, to be in the background of animation studies. 
The collection provides a timely counterpoint to the dominance of character (be that either animated characters such as Mickey Mouse or real world personalities such as Walt Disney) that exists within animation scholarship (and film studies more generally). Chapters address a wide range of topics including history, case studies in national contexts (including Australia, Japan, China and Latvia), the traversal of animated landscape, the animation of fantastical landscapes, and the animation of interactive landscapes. Animated Landscapes promises to be an invaluable addition to the existing literature, for the most overlooked aspect of animation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I – History: Formal Traditions

1. Seeing in Dreams - The Shifting Landscapes of Drawn Animation
Bryan Hawkins, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

2. The Stop Motion Landscape
Chris Pallant, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

3. Pixar, 'The Road to Point Reyes', and the long history of landscapes in new visual technologies
Malcolm Cook, Birkbeck, University of London, UK


II – History: National Perspectives

4. Australian Animation – Landscape, Isolation and Connections
Steven Allen, Winchester University, UK

5. Environmentalism and The Animated Landscape in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) and Princess Mononoke (1997)
Melanie Chan, York St John University, UK

6. Animating Shanshui: Chinese Landscapes in Animated Film, Art and Performance
Kiu-wai Chu, The University of Hong Kong

7. Latvian Animation: Landscapes of Resistance
Mihaela Mihailova, Yale University, USA


III – Form: Journeys Through Animated Space

8. The Landscape in the Memory: Animated Travel Diaries
María Lorenzo Hernández, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

9. Off the Rails: Animating Train Journeys
Birgitta Hosea, University of the Arts, London, UK

10. Between Setting and Character: A Taxonomy of Sentient Spaces in Fantasy Film
Fran Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton, UK


IV – Form: Peripheral Perspectives

11. The Metamorphosis of Place: Projection-Mapped Animation
Dan Torre, RMIT, Australia

12. Plasmatic Pitches, Temporal Tracks and Conceptual Courts: The Landscapes of Animated Sport
Paul Wells, Loughborough University, UK

13. The Zombiefied Landscape: World War Z (2013), ParaNorman (2012), and the Politics of the Animated Corpse
James Newton, University of Kent, UK


V – Function: Interactivity

14. Evoking the Oracle: Visual Logic of Screen Worlds
Tom Klein, Loyola Marymount University, USA

15. Beyond the Animated Landscape: Videogame Glitches and the Sublime
Alan Meades, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

List of Contributors

Bibliography

Animation/Filmography/Other Media