Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
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: Jourbaneys 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 Jourbaneys
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
Index