| The Society for Animation Studies: A brief history | |
| Introduction | |
| 1 | What is animation and who needs to know? An essay on definitions | 1 |
| 2 | 'Reality' effects in computer animation | 5 |
| 3 | Second-order realism and post-modern aesthetics in computer animation | 16 |
| 4 | The Quay brothers' The Epic of Gilgamesh and the 'metaphysics of obscenity' | 25 |
| 5 | Narrative strategies for resistance and protest in Eastern European animation | 38 |
| 6 | Putting themselves in the pictures: Images of women in the work of Joanna Quinn, Candy Guard and Alison de Vere | 48 |
| 7 | An analysis of Susan Pitt's Asparagus and Joanna Priestley's All My Relations | 71 |
| 8 | Clay animation comes out of the inkwell: The Fleischer brothers and clay animation | 82 |
| 9 | Bartosch's The Idea | 93 |
| 10 | Norman McLaren and Jules Engel: Post-modernists | 104 |
| 11 | Disney, Warner Bros. and Japanese animation | 112 |
| 12 | The thief of Buena Vista: Disney's Aladdin and Orientalism | 137 |
| 13 | Animatophilia, cultural production and corporate interests: The case of Ren & Stimpy | 143 |
| 14 | Francis Bacon and Walt Disney revisited | 163 |
| 15 | Body consciousness in the films of Jan Svankmajer | 177 |
| 16 | Eisenstein and Stokes on Disney: Film animation and omnipotence | 195 |
| 17 | Towards a post-modern animated discourse: Bakhtin, intertextuality and the cartoon carnival | 203 |
| 18 | Restoring the aesthetics of early abstract films | 221 |
| 19 | Resistance and subversion in animated films of the Nazi era: The case of Hans Fischerkoesen | 228 |
| 20 | European influences on early Disney feature films | 241 |
| 21 | Norm Ferguson and the Latin American films of Walt Disney | 261 |
| Notes on the contributors | 269 |
| List of SAS Conference papers - 1989 to 1996 | 271 |
Format: Paperback, 11998 pages
