Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation - Becoming-Animated

List of contents

Table of Contents

Introduction: Becoming-Animated

Chapter 1 - The Limits of Human Perception

Chapter 2 - Cyborg Viewers

Chapter 3 - Metamorphic Creatures

Chapter 4 - Muscular Augmentations

Chapter 5 - A Trek Across the Uncanny Valley

Chapter 6 - Algorithmic Couplings in Video Games

Chapter 7 - Becoming Avatar

Coda

About the author

Sylvie Bissonnette guest edited the special issue "Animating Space and Scalar Travels" for the journal Animation. Her writing on animation and cinema has appeared in Animation, the Contemporary Theatre Review, the New Review of Film and Television Studies, and Screen. She has published book chapters in From Camera Lens to Critical Lens and Stages of Reality, and a chapter on the Québécois filmmaker Denis Villeneuve in Regards Croisés sur Incendies.

Summary

Combining insights from disciplines in the humanities and the cognitive sciences, this book explores the contribution of affect and embodiment on meaning-making in case studies taken from animation, video games, and online synthetic worlds.

Product details

• Authors: Sylvie Bissonnette
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367660376
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66037-6
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Graphical & digital media applications, Graphical and digital media applications, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Graphics Tools