Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

What do we mean by the term "animation" when we are discussing film? Is it a technique? A style? A way of seeing or experiencing "a world" that has little relation to our own lived experience of "the world"? In Animated Worlds, contributors reveal the astonishing variety of "worlds" animation confronts us with. Essays range from close film analyses to phenomenological and cognitive approaches, spectatorship, performance, literary theory, and digital aesthetics. Authors include Vivian Sobchack, Richard Weihe, Thomas Lamarre, Paul Wells, and Karin Wehn.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction
• 1 The joyous reception: Animated worlds and the romantic imagination
• 2 The animated spectator: Watching the Quay Brothers' 'Worlds'
• 3 The strings of the marionette
• 4 Gesturing toward Olympia
• 5 Literary Len: Trade tattoo and Len Lye's link with the literary avant-garde
• 6 Literary theory, animation and the 'subjective correlative': Defining the narrative 'world' in Brit-lit animation
• 7 Animated fathers: Representations of masculinity in The Simpsons and King of the Hill
• 8 Animated interactions: Animation aesthetics and the world of the 'interactive' documentary
• 9 New media worlds
• 10 Style, consistence and plausibility in the Fable gameworld
• 11 Final fantasies: Computer graphic animation and the [dis]illusion of life
• 12 An unrecognised treasure chest: The internet an animation archive