Animating film theory

Animation and history / Esther Leslie

Animating the instant: the secret symmetry between animation and photography / Tom Gunning

Polygraphic photography and the origins of 3-D animation / Alexander R. Galloway

"A living, developing egg is present before you": animation, scientific visualization, modeling / Oliver Gaycken

André Martin, inventor of animation cinema: prolegomena for a history of terms / Hervé Joubert-Laurencin; translated by Lucy Swanson

"First principles" of animation / Alan Cholodenko

Animation, in theory / Suzanne Buchan

Film as experiment in animation: are films experiments on human beings? / Gertrud Koch; translated by Daniel Hendrickson

Frame shot: Vertov's ideologies of animation / Mihaela Mihailova and John MacKay

Signatures of motion: Len Lye's scratch films and the energy of the line / Andrew R. Johnston

Animating copies: Japanese graphic design, the Xerox machine, and Walter Benjamin / Yuriko Furuhata

Framing the postmodern: the rhetoric of animated form in experimental identity-politics documentary video in the 1980s and 1990s / Tess Takahashi

Cartoon film theory : Imamura Taihei on animation, documentary, and photography / Thomas LaMarre

African American representation through the combination of live action and animation / Christopher P. Lehman

Animating uncommon life : U.S. Military malaria films (1942-1945) and the Pacific theater / Bishnupriya Ghosh

Realism in the animation media environment: animation theory from Japan / Marc Steinberg

Some observations pertaining to cartoon physics; or, The cartoon cat in the machine / Scott Bukatman.