Richard Brody has an interesting, if somewhat discursive blog posting at The New Yorker on “The Problem with Processed Storytelling,” which begins with a discussion of Pixar’s “22 Rules of Storytelling.” Brady says, “Pixar films make me feel as if I were watching the cinematic equivalent of irresistibly processed food, with a ramped-up and carefully [...]
Entries from March 14th, 2013
Processed Storytelling
March 14th, 2013 · No Comments · Directing, Screenwriting
Tags: Pixar·Richard Brody
My Cinema Studies 101 Search Engine
March 9th, 2013 · No Comments · Animation history and criticism, Film history and criticism, History and criticism, Television history and criticism
As some visitors to this blog may have noticed over the past few days, I have put up a custom search engine designed to search English-language websites for material suitable for students doing research in the moving image arts — specifically film, TV, animation and visual effects. My Cinema Studies 101 Search Engine had its [...]
Charles daCosta on Racial Stereotyping in Media
March 6th, 2013 · No Comments · Animation history and criticism, History and criticism, Media theory, Politics
Racial Stereotypes in Media from Ogre on Vimeo. My friend and former Savannah College of Art and Design colleague, Charles daCosta, who now teaches at Swinburne University of Technology, in Melbourne, recently made an appearance on Africa Amara, a TV show broadcast on C31, where he talked about racial stereotyping in media. Along the way, [...]
Tags: Charles daCosta·Framing Invisibility: Racial Stereotyping and Selective Positioning in Contemporary British Animation
Jerry Beck’s Cartoon Research Blog
March 5th, 2013 · No Comments · History and criticism
Last month, ace animation historian Jerry Beck left the popular Cartoon Brew blog he created and co-edited with Amid Amidi. However, he didn’t stop blogging, but rather revived his semi-dormant Cartoon Research blog with a vengeance. Right now, it seems devoted to (mainly) American animation history, and also includes some occasional guest postings (e.g., Keith [...]
Animationstudies 2.0
March 4th, 2013 · 1 Comment · History and criticism
Today, the Society for Animation Studies has inaugurated a new blog, animationstudies 2.01, which is being edited by Nichola Dobson, and devoted to issues in animation scholarship. As Dobson points out, The pace of published research has often lagged behind the vast technological developments in the animation industry and as such there is often seen [...]
Tags: Animationstudies 2.0·Harvey Deneroff·Society for Animation Studies
SAS 2013 — Redefining Animation
March 4th, 2013 · No Comments · Animation conferences
This year’s Society for Animation Studies conference will be held at the University of Southern California (one of my alma maters), June 23-27, under the theme of “Redefining Animation.” It is being held under the auspices of The John C Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts of USC’s School of Cinematic Art. There is [...]
Tags: Society for Animation Studies·University of Southern California