Acknowledgements
Foreword. The First Times
Carmen Lloret
Introduction. Contemporary Research in Animation Studies from Spain: The MESA Objectives and Achievements
Maria Pagès
Part 1: Theory and History of Animation
1. The Untold History of the Disney Studio in Paris
Ángela Iturriza
2. About Fathers (and Mothers?) of Animation
Maitane Junguitu Dronda
3. Building an Academic Field: Animation in Spain through Books and Dissertations
Mercedes Álvarez San Román and Sara Mai Ortiz de Manuel
4. Perished Utopias and Announced Dystopias: A Scenographic Dissection of Spanish Cli-fi Animation through its History
Raúl Jambrina Rojo
5. Talking About Animation: Posthumanist Allegory in Robot Dreams
Nea Ehrlich and Maria Pagès
Part 2: Theorizing the Animation Practice
6. From Theory to Practice (and From Practice to Theory)
Elisa Martínez
7. Creative Freedom in Animation: An Experimental Revolution
Marta Lafuente Cuenca
8. Stop-motion Animation and Synesthesia
Iria Cabrera Balbuena
9. The Handmade and the Analogue in Animated Autobiographies: More Than an Aesthetic Question
Agathe Pias and Sara Álvarez Sarrat
Part 3: Women and Animation
10. Research in Animation: Methodology and Future of the MIA Report
Maitane Junguitu Dronda, Nerea Cuenca-Orellana, Sara Álvarez Sarrat, Susana García Rams, and Begoña Vicario Calvo
11. The Woman's Gaze as an Animated Aesthetic Function in Jíbaro
Pilar Yébenes
12. Directing and Supervising in Spanish Animated Feature Films (2024)
Marta Gil Soriano and Sandra Jiménez Duarte
Part 4: Technical Developments and Processes in Digital Animation
13. Tradition and Innovation: The Transformation of Animation in Spain (1980–Present)
J. Ignacio Meneu Oset
14. Technical Processes of Pre-Digital Animation on the Game's Screen
Mario-Paul Martínez
15. The Glow of Flow and the Shadows of Gris: Fluidity and Ubiquity in the Digital Image
Maria Pagès
Appendix
List of Contributors
Biography
Maria Pagès specializes in Spanish animation and holds a PhD in Animation from Universitat de Vic-UCC. She is a Senior Lecturer in 2D Animation at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. She is a member of the research group Dicode at the Centre de la Imatge i la Tecnologia Multimèdia and a founding member of MESA (Women in Animation Studies).
