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SAS Conference papers Pagina 1 NIAf - Available papers and transcripts from the Society for Animation Studies (SAS) annual conferences 1st SAS conference 1989, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Author (Origin) Title Forum Pages Copies Summary Notes Allan, Robin (InterTheatre, European Influences on Disney: The Formative Disney 20 N.A. See: Allan, 1991. Published as part of A Reader in Animation United Kingdom) Years Before Snow White Studies (1997), edited by Jayne Pilling, titled: "European Influences on Early Disney Feature Films". Kaufman, J.B. (Wichita) Norm Ferguson and the Latin American Films of Disney 8 N.A. In the years 1941-43, Walt Disney and his animation team made three Published as part of A Reader in Animation Walt Disney trips through South America, to get inspiration for their next films. Studies (1997), edited by Jayne Pilling. Norm Ferguson, the unit producer for the films, made hundreds of photo's and several people made home video's, thanks to which Kaufman can reconstruct the journey and its complications. The feature films that were made as a result of the trip are Saludos Amigos (1942) and The Three Caballero's (1944). Moritz, William (California Walter Ruttmann, Viking Eggeling: Restoring the Aspects of 7 N.A. Hans Richter always claimed he was the first to make absolute Published as part of A Reader in Animation Institute of the Arts) Esthetics of Early Experimental Animation independent and animations, but he neglected Walther Ruttmann's Opus no. 1 (1921). Studies (1997), edited by Jayne Pilling, titled institutional filmmaking Viking Eggeling had made some attempts as well, that culminated in "Restoring the Aesthetics of Early Abstract the crude Diagonal Symphony in 1923 . Both films have their strong Films". points as experimental animation however, and neither should be dismissed as 'primitive'. 2nd SAS conference 1990, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Author (Origin) Title Forum Pages Copies Summary Notes Frierson, Michael Analysis of Modeling Fleischer Studio's Inc. 11 N.A. In the 1921 Out of the Inkwell film Modeling used clay animation, a Published in Animation Journal, vol. 2, issue 1, (University of North medium that is hardly used in the rest of the twenties. Although the Fall 1993, titled "Clay Animation Comes Out of Carolina, Greensboro) format does not change substantially by this feature, Ko-Ko, the films' the Inkwell: the Fleischer Brothers and Clay main character, becomes somewhat of an amphibian, merging the Animation". Also published as part of A animated space with the 'real' space. Reader in Animation Studies (1997), edited by Jayne Pilling. 3rd SAS conference 1991, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA Author (Origin) Title Forum Pages Copies Summary Notes Allan, Robin (InterTheatre, Fantasia Revisited N.A. 20 N.A. European folklore and fairytales had much inlfuence on th early Disney Published as part of A Reader in Animation Stockport, United films. Since most of Disney's early staff consisted of sons of émigré's, Studies (1997), edited by Jayne Pilling, titled: Kingdom) we can find various elements pointing to mostly German graphic art, "European Influences on Early Disney Feature storytelling and other sources. Most prominent of these is Wilhelm Films", aslo containing "European Influences Busch, creator of Max und Moritz . Allan looks for more sources in a on Disney: The Formative Years Before Snow fragment of Disney's Fantasia , "Beethoven's Sixth Symphony - The White" (SAS 1989). Pastoral Symphony". Couzin, Sharon (School of The Woman's Voice in Contemporary American N.A. 11 N.A. What is important is to recognize in animation is the significance of Published as part of A Reader in Animation the Art Institute of Animation women who take risks in form and content. Susan Pitt and Joanna Studies (1997), edited by Jayne Pilling, titled Chicago) Priestly are artists that show very personal interests in their films. "An Analysis of Susan Pitt's Asparagus and Examined here are Asparagus and All My Relations . Joanna Priestly's All My Relations ". Manovich, Lev (University Effects of the Real in Computer Animation N.A. 11 N.A. Manovich is investigates computer graphics and digital animation as a Published as part of A Reader in Animation of Rochester) new way of constructing animated worlds. His main concern is in the Studies (1997), edited by Jayne Pilling, titled way we represent our world in in which ways we can create it in our "'Reality' Effects in Computer Animation". own way, both technologically and creatively. Pagina 1 van 13 SAS Conference papers Pagina 2 4th SAS conference 1992, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA Author (Origin) Title Forum Pages Copies Summary Notes Denslow, Philip Kelly What is Animation and Who Needs to Know? Animation Theory 4 2 Denslow's essay can well be interpreted as the basis for questions Published as part of A Reader in Animation (Atlanta, Georgia) about technology in animation today. He carefully dissects some of the Studies (1997), edited by Jayne Pilling. most stringent questions about what to define as animation and how to look at new media in terms of animated aspects. Langer, Mark (Carleton Ren & Stimpy , Animatophilia and the Trash Applied Methodology 20 N.A. Langer tracks popular animation in its way to cultural acceptance. Published as part of A Reader in Animation University, Ottawa) Aesthetic From animatophilics' admiration, it has been transferred into the Studies (1997), edited by Jayne Pilling, titled mainstream. John Kricfalusi's Ren & Stimpy was essentially a show by "Animatophilia, Cultural Production and and for animatophilics, but programmed on a children's channel, Corporate Interests: The Case of Ren & Nickelodeon. Consequently, it was probably inevitable that Kricfalusi Stimpy". got fired from his controversial cartoon show. 5th SAS conference 1993, Surrey Institute of Art and Design Author (Origin) Title Forum Pages Copies Summary Notes Darley, Andy (Surrey Computer Animation: Second Order Realism & Technology and 9 N.A. An analysis of Disney and Pixar's Red's Dream is used to point us to Published as part of A Reader in Animation Institute of Art & Design) Post-Modern Aesthetics Computers the significance of computer animation and its relationship with reality. Studies (1997), edited by Jayne Pilling, titled: Darley calls this kind of reality 'second-order', because it tries to "Second-order Realism and Post-Modern imitate old ways of seeing, porduced with new means. Aesthetics in Computer Animation". Knapp, Trischa Goodnow The New Spirit of Income Taxes: Donald Duck, Culture and Identity 27 2 Knapp uses both a narrative and a rethorical analysis to look at the (USA) Persuasion and World War II function of Donald Duck in The New Spirit , a government funded propaganda movie. Donald Duck takes the position of the spectator, as he shows the 1940's audience that paying taxes and paying them promptly is both easy and a privilege. Moritz, William (California The Idea: Bartosch & Masereel Culture and Identity 11 N.A. Bartosch created the 25-minute film The Idea (1932) as a derivative Published as part of A Reader in Animation Institute of the Arts) work of his cooperation with Masereel. Masereel had created many Studies (1997), edited by Jayne Pilling, titled: novels consisting of woodcut images, inspiring Bartosch to make a "Bartosch's The Idea ". film about enlightenment, truth and oppression. O'Pray, Mike (University Eisenstein, Stokes and Disney: Animation and Aesthetics 8 N.A. Both film artist Eisenstein and ballet artist Stokes have admired Published as part of A Reader in Animation East London) the Omnipotence of Thought Disney's Silly Symphonies and adjusted their cultural theories as a Studies (1997), edited by Jayne Pilling, titled: result. The thing they both marvelled at was the "omnipotence" of the "Eisenstein and Stokes on Disney: Film cartoons. This simultaneously means the power to move in a Animation and Omnipotence". controlled way and the expert use of the animated body to the soundtrack. Pummell, Simon (United Francis Bacon and Walt Disney Revisited The Body 14 N.A. John Berger wrote Francis Bacon and Walt Disney in 1972 and in Published as part of A Reader in Animation Kingdom) making this comparison, somewhat dismissed Bacon's movement- Studies (1997), edited by Jayne Pilling. oriented paintings. There are more important similarities between the work of both, however. Where Disney starts with exaggerated movement which is later covered up and reduced, Bacon tries to find violent movement in still images. Sharman, Leslie (United The Thief of Buena Vista: Disney's Aladdin and Orientalism 6 N.A. Disney's Aladdin was promoted as deeply influenced by eastern or Published as part of A Reader in Animation Kingdom) the Orientalism Debate arabic cultures. In fact, it fails to do so most of the time, because it Studies (1997), edited by Jayne Pilling, titled: mainly represents the superiority of the West - read America - in the "The Thief of Buena Vista: Disney's Aladdin ability to view the East. Aladdin therefore is a mixture of western and Orientalism". representations of the East, stereotypes and little Eastern influences: it confirms existing discourses. Pagina 2 van 13 SAS Conference papers Pagina 3 Wells, Paul (De Montfort Body Conciousness in the Films of Jan The Body 18 N.A. The films of Jan Svankmajer, the famous surrealist puppet animator, Published as part of A Reader in Animation Uiversity) Svankmajer are mainly concerned with aspects of the body. This essay examines Studies (1997), edited by Jayne Pilling. three main areas of Svankmajer's work: the body in transition, the body as a mechanism and the body under threat. The human body, to Svankmajer, is a source of frustration, change, uncertainty and destruction. 6th SAS conference 1994, San Francisco State University Author (Origin) Title Forum Pages Copies Summary Notes Langer, Mark (Carleton Why the Atom is Our Friend: Disney and State International Abstracts 17 2 The film Our Friend the Atom is a strange case of American University, Ottawa) Interests enthousiasm for nuclear energy.
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