Edited by Alan CholodenkoThe Illusion of Life: Essays on Animation was the world’s first anthology of scholarly essays theorizing animation. The Illusion of Life 2: More Essays on Animation, again edited by Alan Cholodenko, continues and extends its pioneering work in the theory of animation. It provides an abundance of understandings, approaches, correctives and challenges to scholars not only in animation studies but in Film Studies, indeed to disciplines across the spectrum. It proceeds on the assumption that animation, in increasingly taking ‘centre stage’ thanks to computer animation and anime, calls ever more insistently for focused, rigorous theoretical attention.The sixteen essays composing the collection engage with post-World War II film animation in Japan and the United States, as well as with the ‘expanded’ field of animation, including: the relation of live action and animation; video and computer games, the electronic, digitally animated mediascape, the city, flight simulation, the military and war; and animation in the entertainment industry.About the AuthorAlan Cholodenko was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art History and Theory at The University of Sydney before he retired in 2001. He not only edited these two anthologies, he organised the conferences that animated them: THE ILLUSION OF LIFE, the world's first international conference on animation, in Sydney in 1988, and THE LIFE OF ILLUSION in Sydney in 1995.576 pages, paperback, blacka and white images, 14.8 (h) x 21 (w) cm.
