[Commlist] Call for Chapters: The Encyclopedia of Animation Studies - Volume 4 - Characters and Aesthetics

A brief new year reminder of the below Call for Chapters, which has a 
deadline fast approaching (January 31st). Any queries about potential 
submissions, or if you just want to float an idea, do not hesitate to 
get in touch with either David or myself.


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My colleague Dr. David McGowan (University of the Arts London) and I are 
looking for additional submissions to complete the line-up for a 
co-edited volume on Characters and Aesthetics inanimationfor/The 
Encyclopedia ofAnimationStudies/, a newly launched series that will 
provide a comprehensive collection of original writing that balances 
critical intervention and comprehensive scope, and give readers insight 
into current thinking in the field while also challenging and expanding 
key ideas inanimationstudies.


The multi-volume series will be published by Bloomsbury, and the 
Editors-in-chief Dr Eric Herhuth (Tulane University) and Dr Annabelle 
Honess Roe (University of Surrey) have put together the following four 
volumes as part of the series:

/Vol 1: Geographies and Histories/(eds. Malcolm Cook, Natália Pinazza, 
Stefanie Van de Peer & Daisy Yan Du)

/Vol 2: Techniques, Forms & Process/(eds. Franziska Bruckner & Alla 
Gadassik)

/Vol 3: Critical Approaches and Contexts/(eds. Deborah Levitt & Heather 
Warren-Crow)

*/Vol 4: Characters and Aesthetics/**(eds. Christopher Holliday & David 
McGowan*)

The aim of the fourth volume is to explore a variety of animated media 
through the lens of characters and aesthetics. Unlike other volumes, the 
chapters collected in this fourth book will each present focused case 
studies(on either individual characters or animated media texts)that 
explore how certain characters allow a critical investigation into 
specific topics related to identity and representation. The volume will 
additionally explore specific themes and qualities associated with the 
animated body and elements of character construction, and how such 
unique qualities setanimationapart from other forms of audiovisual media.


While much of the (admittedly vast!) Table of Contents is already 
completed, we are looking to plug a few gaps in terms of coverage, and 
so are looking for chapters that fit under the following broad headings:

  * *Cross-Dressing inAnimation*
  * **Queerness / LGBTQ+ Representation*
    *
  * ***Animated Characters and/in Pornography (e.g. Hentai)*
    **
  * ****Race and the Censored Eleven*
    ***
  * *****OrientalistAnimation*
    ****
  * ******The Animated Family*
    *****
  * *******Live Music and Animated Character Performance*
    ******
  * ********Characters Across Merchandise*
    *******
  * *********Transmedia Characters*
    ********
  * **********Fan Communities - Costume, Cosplay and the ‘Prosumer’*
    *********
  * ***********Posthumanist Bodies and the Cyborg*
    **********
  * ************Cartoon Bodies and Violence*
    ***********
  * *************Magic and Metaphor*
    ************
  * **************Dreams and the Psychology ofAnimation*
    *************
  * ***************Metamorphosis and ‘Trick’Animation/Effects*
    **************
  * ****************Rhythm and Character Performance (e.g. Mickey Mousing)*
    ***************
  * *****************PoliticalAnimation, Propaganda and Caricature*
    ****************
  * ******************The Counter-Cultural Animated Body (e.g.
    AdultAnimation)******************

If you’re interested in contributing a chapter for the volume under any 
of these headings, then please do send abstracts (max 300 words)and a 
short bio (150 words) to both *Dr. Christopher 
Holliday*((christopher.holliday /at/ kcl.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(christopher.holliday /at/ kcl.ac.uk)>) and*Dr. David 
McGowan*((animatedpersonalities /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(animatedpersonalities /at/ gmail.com)>) by*Monday 31st January 
2022*. Please also add in a brief note about which heading your proposal 
fits under so we can gauge the overall shape of the collection. 
Notifications of acceptance will go out soon after this deadline, with 
final chapters between 6000 and 7000 words likely due as a first draft 
around December 2022/January 2023 at the earliest (final date t.b.c.).


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