[Commlist] Call for Chapters: Performing Animation, Animating Performance

We are seeking proposals for additional chapter contributions for an 
edited collection on the intersection of animation and performance.

From the early animators who appeared in whole or in part in their 
films (think of J. Stuart Blackton, Emile Cohl, or Winsor McCay) to the 
more recent debates about the creative ownership of motion capture 
characters, performance is a spectre that is present in all forms of 
animation. ‘Acting’ and performance are often considered integral to the 
practice of animation, particularly the process of animating characters. 
In his 2013 book Shadow of a Mouse, Donald Crafton considers animated 
characters as performers. At the same time, notions of ‘animation’ and 
coming to life underpin conceptions of performance, coming to bear on 
how we might understand and theorise performance across multiple 
disciplines. This book aims to put ‘animation’ and ‘performance’ in a 
productive dialogue in a way that will enhance our understanding of 
animation and performance, both separately and together.

Potential chapter topics include, but are not limited to:

  *
    Early animation and the presence of the performing animator
  *
    Motion and performance capture technologies
  *
    Animation and performance beyond film (e.g. tv, games, interactive
    media…)
  *
    Animation as a form of acting
  *
    The use of performance methodologies in animation production and
    practice
  *
    Rotoscoping
  *
    Live performance reference
  *
    Animation and puppetry
  *
    Philosophical approaches to performance as animation/ animation as
    performance
  *
    Performance philosophy and animation
  *
    Animation, performance and geographical and cultural specificity
  *
    Issues of representation, diversity and identity politics at the
    intersection of animation and performance
  *
    (Star) voice artists and vocal performance
  *
    The performance of live animation (e.g. sand animation)
  *
    Intermedial screen performances (e.g. live-action/animation hybrids)
  *
    Industrial elements of performance (storyboarding, software)


Please submit 300-word proposals, along with a short bibliography (max 5 
entries) and bio (100 words) as one Word document to 
(christopher.holliday /at/ kcl.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(christopher.holliday /at/ kcl.ac.uk)>and (a.honessroe /at/ surrey.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(a.honessroe /at/ surrey.ac.uk)>by 17th August 2021.

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