[Commlist] call for chapters: Global Animated Horror

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While there has been an abundance of new and innovative scholarship on 
horror cinema and scholarship on animation in the 21^st century, there 
has been little attempt to synthesise these two approaches. Work on 
animated horror broadly is lacking, covered only partially in books on 
horror films for children (Lester, 2020; Antunes, 2020) and Tim Burton’s 
animations (McMahon, 2014; Hockenhull, 2021), as well as journal 
articles on Lovecraftian horror in Disney and /Gravity Falls/ (Miller, 
2016) and the anime /Higurashi: When They Cry/ (Hack, 2015).

A global approach to animated horror would extend beyond these American, 
Western European and Japanese examples to ensure a transcultural reach, 
highlighting the contributions of creative personnel within animation 
who have been previously neglected within English language academia.

In keeping with the remit of Hidden Horror Histories, /Global Animated 
Horror/ would explore how practitioners use animation to explore 
questions of identity and intersectionality, deploying the 
transformative and material qualities of the medium/s to rework tropes 
and themes from the horror genre and associate sub-genres. These 
questions would be answered and explored within the specific contexts of 
transnational identities and local industry practices.

The book would be in the region of 100,000 to 120,000 words, with 
chapters from 6,000 to 8,000 words. Illustrations would be in black and 
white.

Approaches may include:
- Focus upon the work of a key creative practitioner, such as an 
individual writer, animator, sound designer etc.
- Focus upon the work of a specific company or studio.
- Horror animation(s) associated with a particular era, movement or 
national cinema.
- Individual animated horror films, such as Yeon Sang-ho’s /Seoul 
Station/ (2016) or Shengwei Zhou’s /SHe/ (2018), or franchises like 
Alberto Rodriguez's /Leyendas/ franchise.
- Animated sections of live-action/animated hybrid horror films like Jan 
Švankmajer's /Lunacy/ (2005) or Joaquin Cociña’s and Cristóbal León’s 
/The Wolf House /(2018).
- The abject, the eerie and the uncanny in global and/or transnational 
animation.
- The unique contributions or creative innovations brought about by a 
particular horror animator.
- Horror anime (/Berzerk/; /Parasyte/; /Boogiepop Phantom/, /Midori/, 
etc.) within a global context.
- The theoretical and practical contributions that 
practitioner-theorists like Ng'endo Mukii, Lev Manovich or Barry Purves 
might have for horror animation.

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In short, if you have a piece in the region of 6,000 to 8,000 words that 
you would like to write upon horror and animation, please send your 
abstract to (adamwhybray /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(adamwhybray /at/ gmail.com)>.

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