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With a philosopher’s eye: A ‘naive’ view on animation
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Malpas, J, With a philosopher's eye: A naive' view on animation, Animation: an interdisciplinary journal, 9, (1) pp. 65-79. ISSN 1746-8477 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1177/1746847713520521
Abstract
Animation has never been a subject that has attracted much interest from philosophers. Indeed,
one is hard-pressed to find any examples of philosophers working centrally within the discipline
who have directly addressed the topic of animation. Someone like Thomas Lamarre, who
must surely be counted one of the leading theorists of animation, comes from outside philosophy
even though he also draws heavily on philosophical ideas and sources. Often when animation
is directly addressed by philosophers, it is from within discussions of film or visual
aesthetics (and frequently only as part of some larger discussion – e.g. Cavell, 1979, or Deleuze,
1986), or else, more commonly, in terms of the philosophical content for which particular animated
works are taken as the vehicle (this seems especially true of the volumes in the Philosophy
and Popular Culture series that address animation, e.g. Irwin et al., 2001, and Steiff and
Tamplin, 2010). Often animation itself appears as a field onto which already existing philosophical
approaches and concerns can be projected and inscribed – and to some extent this is
true, notwithstanding its groundbreaking position in the field, of Alan Cholodenko’s seminal
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | anima, Hugo, image, life, movement, philosophy, place, time, topography |
Research Division: | Philosophy and Religious Studies |
Research Group: | Philosophy |
Research Field: | Philosophy not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies |
UTAS Author: | Malpas, J (Professor Jeff Malpas) |
ID Code: | 91804 |
Year Published: | 2014 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 2 |
Deposited By: | School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2014-05-30 |
Last Modified: | 2015-04-13 |
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