The Routledge Companion to Animation Studies

Part I
Eras and Forms

1. Early Studios
Todd Herzog

2. Golden Age and Television
Nichola Dobson

3. Pixar and Post-Digital Studios
Christopher Holliday

4. Children’s Animation
Amy Ratelle

5. Adult Animation
Caroline Ruddell

6. Animated Documentary
Nea Ehrlich

7. War and Propaganda
Donna Kornhaber

8. Experimental Animation
Umme Maria

Part II
Representation

9. Race
Jennifer Gómez Menjívar

10. Gender
Amy M. Davis

11. Queer
Jacqueline Ristola

12. Mental Illness
Melanie Kreitler

13. Disability
Elizabeth Leigh Scherman

Part III
Themes

14. Medium Specificity
Farzaneh Yazdandoost

15. The Disney Princess
Eve Benhamou

16. Cartoon Violence
Ren Garden

17. Children’s Animation and Audience Studies
Signe Kjaer Jensen

18. Education
Calum Main

19. Nature
Virág Vécsey

20. Environmentalism
Christina Formenti

21. Science
Marco Bellano

22. Artificial Intelligence
Damian Gascoigne and Petr Joura

Part IV
Aesthetics

23. Colour
Kirsten Moana Thompson

24. Space
J.P. Telotte

25. Character Design
Paul Taberham

26. Visual Effects
Matt Nicholls

27. Visual Modernism
Cinzia Bottini

28. Disney Aesthetics
Sam Summers

29. 3D Computer Animation
Paul Taberham

30. Games Engines for Animation
Tom Livingstone

31. Stop-Motion
Andrea Comiskey

32. Fluid Frames
Corrie Francis Parks

33. Puppetry
Rolf Giesen

34. Screenwriting
Romana Turina

Part V
Sound

35. Classical Music
Matt Lawson

36. Animated Musicals
Tomer Nechushtan

37. Beat-Based Synchronisation
Mark Mason

38. Movement and Rhythm
María Lorenzo Hernández

Part VI
National Animation and Anime

39. African
Mohamed Ghazala

40. Chinese
Xue Han

41. Czech and Slovak
Peter Hames

42. Irish
Yvonne Hennessy

43. Anime Origins
Maria Roberta Novielli

44. Anime Auteurs: Makoto Shinkai and Hayao Miyazaki
Erica Ka-yan Poon

45. Shōjo
Maria Chiara Oltolini

46. Anime and Media Mix
Rayna Denison

Biography

Nichola Dobson is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Director in Animation at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Founding editor of Animation Studies (2006 - 2011) and Animation Studies 2.0 (2012-2020), she has published on animation, television genre and fan fiction, including Norman McLaren: Between the Frames (2018) and Historical Dictionary of Animation and Cartoons, Volume 2 (2020). She was President of the Society for Animation Studies between 2015 and 2019. She is currently the Director of the Animation Research Network Scotland. 

Paul Taberham is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Arts University Bournemouth. He is the author of Lessons in Perception: The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist, and Poetics of Animation: Medium, Context, and Aesthetics. He is also co-editor of Cognitive Media Theory, Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital, and Introduction to Screen Narrative: Perspectives on Story Production and Comprehension. A Fellow of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image and an editorial board member for animation: an interdisciplinary journal, his research approaches film and animation through the analytic tradition, with particular attention to poetics, narratology, and cognition.