Dear MeCCSA,
Please see the call below – responses should be directed to Dr Romana Turina: [log in to unmask]
CALL FOR PAPERS
Non-Fiction Animation: Narrative Imagination and the Translation of Reality
University of York – The Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies
Thursday 19th to Friday 20th April 2018
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: March 20, 2018
From The Sinking of the Lusitania (McCay, 1918) to Tower (Maitland,
2016), non-fiction animation continues to be instrumental to the mediation of reality in cinema and television. Animation offers a range of structural and narrative possibilities grounded in the flexibility of technique and stylistic choice that is the legacy
of this creative form’s evolution. Today the convergence of animation and documentary is receiving much attention in academia, as several recent publications testify; for example, Animated Documentary (Roe,
2013), and Animating Film Theory (Beckman, ed. 2014).
This symposium invites proposals for papers investigating the way we work animation into non-fiction narratives; the way animation supports the translation of the real
world into moving images, and the power of animation in evoking, challenging, questioning our society in the documentary form.
Possible topics include:
· Animation
on the written page
· Narrative
and layers of signification
· Narrative
impossibilities translated through animation
· Animation’s
function in narrating reality
· Animation
and the news
· Animation
and the biopic
· Animation
and the sciences
· Little
known historical precedents of value
· International
examples of animation screenplays
· Animation
and information industries
Application formats (Deadline: March 20th, 2018)
Please send a 20-minute paper abstract (350 words) and a 100-word bio to [log in to unmask]
- notification of acceptance within one week.
Webpage: https://rt7485.wixsite.com/non-fiction
All the best wishes,
Romana
Romana Turina
Department of Theatre, Film, and Television
University of York
UK