Michael S. Daubs – Subversive or Submissive?

User-Produced Flash Cartoons and Television Animation Introduction A number of prominent media scholars including Peter Lunenfeld (2000, p. 71) and Lev Manovich (2002, p. 4) have shown that advances in the technical capabilities of personal computers, combined with the increasing ubiquity of Internet access, have allowed the computer to become a single site for the […]

María Lorenzo Hernández – Through the Looking Glass

The Self-Portrait of the Artist and the Re-Start of Animation   Introduction Originally, the self-portrait was a pictorial subgenre of portrayal, in which the artists became the model for their own paintings. However, it is also present in mediums such as cinema, when directors appear in their films, from ephemeral manifestations, like the Hitchcockian cameo […]

Meg Rickards – Uncanny breaches, flimsy borders

Jan Švankmajer’s conscious and unconscious worlds Introduction The portrayal of a character’s subjective, ‘inner’ experience onscreen is an enduring challenge for the filmmaker. Many techniques for conveying fantasies or dreams, such as blurring the frame’s edges, cross-dissolves and bleached colour, have been used – from soap operas to advertising – to such an extent that […]

Alison Loader – We’re Asian, More Expected of Us

Representation, The Model Minority & Whiteness on King of the Hill During its thirteen-season run from 1997-2009, King of the Hill was the second longest running animated series in U.S. television history (after The Simpsons). Co-created by Mike Judge of MTV’s Beavis and Butthead and Simpson’s writer Greg Daniels, the now-syndicated Emmy Award-winning show features […]

Van Norris – “Touching Cloth…”: Considering Satire and the Clergy in Popular Contemporary British Animation

Assessing the failings of mechanisms of power through comedy has remained a constant throughout animation. Within the specific arena of ‘the popular’, always a potent area for consideration, adult British network television animation in the early part of the 21st century has maintained a unique relationship with modes of Satire that has enabled writers and […]

Volume 5, 2010

Contents “Touching Cloth…”: Considering Satire and the Clergy in Popular Contemporary British Animation by Van Norris Download this article as PDF. View this article in HTML. We’re Asian, More Expected of Us: Representation, The Model Minority & Whiteness on King of the Hill by Alison Loader Download this article as PDF. View this article in […]