List of SAS Conference Papers
The following list contains information on papers presented at the annual conferences of the Society for Animation Studies, since 1989. Different sources have been consulted to compile this list. We owe a special thanks to Jane Pilling, who published information on the first eight SAS conferences in her book A Reader in Animation Studies (John Libbey 1997). The information on the most recent conferences was compiled from different sources, and is more inconsistent and incomplete. We would therefore welcome all additions and corrections so that we can update this list in the future, please contact the SAS at sas@niaf.nl
FIRST ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE 1989
University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 26-29 OctoberAesthetic problems
Leskosky, Richard J. (University of Illinois, Urbana), Repetition in Animated Films.
McNamara, Martin (San Francisco State University), Shot Duration in Animation.
Disney
Allen, Robin (InterTheatre, United Kingdom), European Influences on Disney: The Formative Years Before Snow White.
Jarvik, Laurence (University of California, Los Angeles), The Photographic Ecstasy: The Three Caballeros - The Baia Sequence: A Close Analysis.
Mayerson, Mark (Toronto), Right and Wrong - Morality and the Story Structure of Pinocchio.
Furniss, Maureen Ruth (University of Southern California), An Analysis of live action / Animation in Disney's The Three Caballeros and Mary Poppins.
Kaufman, J.B. (Wichita), Norm Ferguson and the Latin American Films of Walt Disney.
Merritt, Karen (University of California), Falling and Flying: Dopey Meets Horatio Alger in Dumbo.
Merritt, Russell (Oakland, California), Analysis of Pinocchio.
Towards a theory of animationCholodenko, Alan (University of Sydney), Framing the Framing of Animation.
Mays, Peter (Second Wave Software, California), Towards a Theory of Animation: Real-time Computer Animation as a New Art Form.
Yoresh, Y. (Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design), Animation-Ethics and Esthetics.
Early televisionDelGaudio, Sybil (Hofstra University, New York), The Cel Meets the Sell: Early Television Commercial Animation.
Frierson, Michael (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), Art Clokey and the Rebirth of Clay Animation.
European independentsGizicki, Marcin (Rhode Island School Of Design / Polish Filmmakers Union), Metaphorical Meanings of Piotr Kamler's Chronopolis and Jan Lenica's Labyrinth.
Silberman, Robert (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), The Brothers Quay, Bruno Schulz and the Middle Europe of the Mind.
Weiner, Steve (Davis, California), Jan Lenica's Landscape.
The world upside down: The poetics of the animated cartoonsJones, Chuck (Chuck Jones Productions, California), The Joy of Animation.
Kenner Hugh (Johns Hopkins University), Modernism in Animation.
Aspects of independent and institutional filmmakingDobson, Terence (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), Confluence and Conflict in Norman McLaren's Synchromy.
Moritz, William (California Institute of the Arts), Walter Ruttmann, Viking Eggeling - Restoring the Esthetics of Early Experimental Animation.
Walz, Gene (University of Manitoba), Animation at the National Film Board of Canada on the Eve of its Fiftieth Birthday.
Labour-management problemsDeneroff, Harvey (Los Angeles), The Terrytoons Strike.
Langer, Mark (Carleton University, Ottawa), Standarisation of Production Practices in the 1930s.
Smoodin, Eric (American University), Whistling while they Work: Labour, Cartoons and Popular Journalism During the 1940s.
Aspects of independent animationMcLaughlin, Dan (University of California Los Angeles), Independent Animation in the Magic Kingdom: Between a Rock and Hollywood.
Pitt, Suzan (Harvard University), Animation and the Creative Process.
Priestley, Joanna (Oregon Art Institute), Themes in Contemporary Women's Animation.
Narrative structure and animation: InfluencesCurtis, Scott (University of Iowa), Defining the Frame of the Figural: Comic Strips and American Silent Animation.
Hoxter, Julian (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom), Garbage Bags for the American Dream? Post-Modern Narratives at the End of Cinema and Animation.
Lyons, Jonothan (Los Angeles), Comedy, Clowns and Cartoons.
Schenkel, Talia (Baruch College), Yiddish Folklore in Animation.
SECOND ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE 1990
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 5-7 October
Modes of production
Attallah, Paul (Carleton University, Ottawa), Animation and Canadian Television.
Furness, Maureen (University of Southern California), Life in Post-Modernism: It's Prime Time for the Simpsons.
Lorenzo, William (Brooklyn), Foreign-Toons: An Examination of Foreign Theatrical Animation on Early US Television.
Canon formationJoubert-Laurencin, Herve (Université Lumière Lyon II), La canonisation du film d'animation.
Wassenaar, Michael (Madison, Wisconsin), A Canon without a Discipline?
Ehrlich, David (Vermont & New Hampshire Arts Councils), Experimental Animation as Formal Narrative and Its Proper Role Within the Traditional American Festival.
Studies of filmmakersGizycki, Marcin (Rhode Island School of Design), Stefan and Franciszka Themerson: Unknown masters of Experimental Animation.
Mayerson, Mark (Toronto), Jim Tyer: The Animator Who Broke the Rules.
Walz, Gene (University of Manitoba), The Animated Richard Condie.
Moritz, William (California Institute of the Arts), Norman McLaren in Context.
Modes of production: Flipbook, multiplane and puppetLeskosky, Richard (University of Illinois, Urbana), Flip-books: History and Use.
Hayes, Ruth (California Institute of Arts), Flip-books: Animation in the Free Zone.
McNamara, Martin (San Francisco State University), The Quest for Depth: Classic and Contemporary Multiplane Animation.
Azerad, Michael (National Film Board of Canada), The Brain - a Multi-Axis, Location / Studio Camera / Subject, Robotic Motion Control System.
Ethnicity and genderPage, Judy (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Feminine Gender as Animated Reality in an Irrational World: Why Inspector Clouseau's Panther is Pink.
Lawling, John (Regent University), Hollywood Shuffle: Images of African-Americans in the Animated Film.
Wallace, Donald (Carleton University, Ottawa), Fleischer Animation and Representations of Black Music.
Fleischer Studio's Inc.Deneroff, Harvey (Los Angeles), The Fleisher Studio's go to Miami.
Frierson, Michael (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), Analysis of Modeling.
Langer, Mark (Carleton University, Ottawa), From Fleischer to Famous: A Study in Institutional Failure and Reorganisation.
Modes of production: The computerMcLaughlin, Dan (University of California, Los Angeles), The Retooling of Animation: Is the Tool Now the Message?
Dutrisac, Julie (National Film Board of Canada), Animaster.
Tafler, David (Philidelphia College of Art & Design), Moving Backward into the Future: The Legacy of Computer Animation.
Manovich, Lev (University of Rochester), Grids, Stars and Glows: Toward an Analysis of Style of Computer Animation in Television.
Theories and aesthetic questionsProchorov, Anatoly (Pilot Animation Studio, Moscow), On Animation Technologies Metaphysics.
Macmillan, Robert (Ottowa), Eisenstein, Levy-Bruhl and Disney: Totemism in the Disney Cartoon.
Sifianos, George (Paris), Le Représentation due Mouvement aux Peintures des Grottes Prehistoriques et les Origines du Cinéma d'Animation.
Herbert, Pierre (National Film Board of Canada), Présence et Représentation du Corps en Cinéma d'Animation.
National cinemasCarrière, Louis (CEGEP Vieux Montréal), L'animation à l'Ofice national du film du Canada et.al. Protestation (1941-89).
Gercheva, Krassimira, (Bulgarian Institute of Cinema, Theatre and Television), Bulgarian Animation Before and After Glasnost.
Mackássy, Kati (Pannonia Film), Animation and Politics in Hungary.
Marinchevska, Nadezha (Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), The Bulgarian Way of Animation and the Alternative Destination of Henri Koulev's Tale of the Road.
Narrative strategies and mechanismsBouse, Derek (University of Pensylvania), True-Life Fantasies: Animated Features and the Development of Live Action Wildlife Films.
Lindvall, Terry (Regent University), Lively and Animated Discours: Self-Reflexivity and the Mere Cartoon.
Straw, William (Carleton University, Ottawa), Decorative Entrances: The Animated Credit Sequence in American live action Comedies of the Early 1960s.
George, Russell (University of Kent), Narrative Repetition in the Classical Cartoon: Poe, Lacan and Rabbit Seasoning.
Modes of production: Advertising filmsStrøm, Gunnar (Møre og Romsdal College, Norway), Norwegian Animated Cinema Commercials From the 1920s and 1930s.
Cohen, Karl (San Francisco), Development of the Animated TV Commercial, 1944-49.
DelGaudio, Sybil (Hofstra University, New York), Marketing Marky: The Maypo Campaign and OtherStoryboard Stories.
THIRD ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE 1991
Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA, 4-6 October
Allen, Robin (InterTheatre, Stockport, United Kingdom), Fantasia revisited.
Bishko, Leslie (Ohio State University), The Use of Labian Analysis for the Discussion of Computer Animation.
Carr, Steve (University of Texas at Austin), Coon or Cohen? Animation and the Transmutable Ethnic Stereotype.
Cartwright, Lisa (University of Rochester / Brown University), 'The Ultimate Force Multiplier': Army Aviation Training Flight Simulation Missions and the Decline of the Referential in Mass Media.
Chisholm, Brad (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Stooping The Simpsons (and Looking at them Again).
Cholodenko, Alan (University of Sydney), Speculations on the Animatic Automation.
Clancy, Keith W. (University of Sydney), In the Blink of an Eye: Animation and the Division of the Present.
Cohen, Karl (San Francisco), The Investigation of Alleged Communists in the Animation Industry.
Couzin, Sharon (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), The Woman's Voice in Contemporary American Animation.
De Cordova, Richard (DePaul University), The Mickey in Macy's Window: Childhood, Consumerism and Disney Animation.
DelGaudio, Sybil (Hofstra University, New York), Acts of Faith: The Works of Faith Hubley.
Deneroff, Harvey (Los Angeles), Are We Mice or Men? The 1941 Disney Strike.
Frierson, Michael (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), Will Vinton and Clay Animation.
Furniss, Maureen (University of Southern California), American Independent Animation, 1945-1965.
Gentile, Phillip (University of Southern Mississippi), Line, Metamorphosis and the Modernist Impulse in the Films of Eggeling, McLaren and Breer.
George, Russell (University of Kent at Canterbury), Primitivity in the Cartoon Text: The Language of Puns.
Heil, R. Douglas (University of Winsconsin, Oshkosh), Visualising Subversion: Shaping Form to Content at the Walter Lantz Studio.
Kennedy, Gary (Carleton University, Ottawa), Cartoon All Stars To The Rescue: The New Recruits in the Drug War and the Animated World of Consumerism.
Langer, Mark (Carleton University, Ottawa), Innovation and Industrial Competition: The Stereotypikcal and Multiplane Processes.
Leskosky, Richard J. (University of Illinois, Urbana), Two-State Animation: The Thaumatrope and its Spin-Offs.
McLaughlin, Dan (University of California, Los Angeles), The Visual in Disney's Peter Pan.
McLaughlin, Mary Serbia (California State University, Los Angeles), Two Worlds Reviewed: A Phenomenological Reading of Pat O'Neil's Water and Power.
McMillan, Robert (Ottowa), Transformations and Totemism: BugsBunny, Levi Strauss and Bateson.
Manovich, Lev (University of Rochester), Effects of the Real in Computer Animation.
Ohmer, Susan (New York University), Plenty of Action and Just Enough Romance': Debates around Disney's Adaptation of Peter Pan.
Prokhorov, Anatoly (Pilot Animation Studio, Moscow), Structure of Emile Cohl's Films: Variational Forms on Screen.
Roger, Andrew (National Archives of Canada, Ottowa), John Grierson Meets Donald Duck: The National Film Boar of Canada and the Disney Studios.
Rubin, Martin (Dallas), Rise and Fall of the Spot-Gag Cartoon.
Smoodin, Eric (American University), A Night at the Movies: Ideology, The Film Bill and Audience Construction.
Staven, Karl (Ithaca College), Collaborative Animated Films: Less Than the Sum of Their Parts?
Vartanian, Carolyn Reed (University of Southern California), Animated Characters and Commercials.
Wallace, Anne D. (University of Southern California), Legibility, Literacy and Authority: Bakshi's Reality Codes in The Lord of the Rings.
Walz, Gene (University of Manitoba), Character Design in Animation: The Case of Charlie Thorson.
Williams, J.P. (Georgia Southern University), Lois Lane and the War Effort: Narrative and Gender Construction in Superman.
FOURTH ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE 1992
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA, 23-25 October
Teach animationGrush, Byron, Digital Technology and Teaching Animation.
Mones-Hattal, Barbara, Figure to Field - Computer Animation.
Schwartz, Gary, Teaching Animation to Prisoners.
Animation TheoryDenslow, Phil (Atlanta, Georgia), What is Animation and Who Needs to Know?
Wright, Prescott, The ASIFA Definition of Animation.
Van Baerle, Susan, An Expanded Definition for Animation for the Virtual Reality Era.
Williams, Suzanne, Towards Establishing Assumptions and Theoretical Framework for Value Analysis of Animated Texts.
Klein, Norman, Animation in Real Space.
Applied methodologyOhmer, Susan, Towards an Industrial History of American Animation: 1940s Economic and Structural Changes.
McNamara, Marty (USA), Script Evolution and Story Adaptation.
Kennedy, Gary, Young Sherlock Holmes: Popular Hero and the Technological Imagination.
Langer, Mark (Carleton University, Ottawa), Ren & Stimpy, Animatophilia and the Trash Aesthetic.
Deneroff, Harvey (Los Angeles), John Matthews' Children's Animation.
Gurevich, Michael, Animopolis or Urbanimation?
Historical PerspectivesMcLaughlin, Dan, Animation before Film.
Leskosky, Richard, Phenakistoscopes.
Frierson, Michael (University of North Carolina), Early Pioneers in Clay Animation.
Ferriter, Christine, Joie de Vivre, Art Historical Context.
Dill, Jane, Jules Engel: Film Artist.
Furniss, Maureen, Abstraction in Film: Techniques and Relationships.
Gene Walz (University of Manitoba), Frédéric Back.
DelGaudio, Sybil (Hofstra University, New York), Blues, Breaks, Lines and Shapes: Jazz and Animation at the Hubley Studio.
Animation propagandaCarr, Steve, Stereotypes in 1930s Cartoons.
Mastronardi, Michael, Bugs Bunny and FDR Go To War.
Penkoff, Diane, Slipping 'em a Mickey? The Enchantment of Alcohol in Disney Animated Films.
Knapp, Trischa, Popular Political Culture: Rocky & Bullwinkle and the Cold War.
Cohen, Karl, Methods of Censorship for Animated Features and TV.
Women and animationBeams, Mary, Subverting Time: A Woman's Perspective.
Moritz, William (California Institute of the Arts), The Genius of Lotte Reiniger.
Allen, Robin (InterTheatre, Stockport, United Kingdom), Sylvia Holland, Disney Artist.
Vartanian, Carolyn, We're Not Bad, We're Just Drawn That Way - Animated Women: Cool World and Roger Rabbit.
Priestley, Joanna, Faith Hubley: Creating a Healing Mythology.
FIFTH ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE 1993
Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Surrey, United Kingdom, 26-28 November
History and culture
Bendazzi, Giannalberto (Italy), La Rosa Di Bagdad: The first full length Italian animated feature film.
Orientalism
Sharman, Leslie (United Kingdom), The Thief of Buena Vista: Disney's Aladdin and the Orientalism Debate.
White, Timothy, & Winn, Emmett (Singapore), Allah versus Disney in the South China Sea.
The body
McLaughlin, Dan (USA), Beauty and Beastiality.
Pummell, Simon (United Kingdom), Francis Bacon and Walt Disney Revisited.
Wells, Paul (De Montfort Uiversity), Body Conciousness in the Films of Jan Svankmajer.
TechnologyCarels, Edwin (Belgium), Old Techniques in New Technologies.
Guldin, Jere (USA), Processed by Cinecolor: The Use of the Color Process in Animation.
Leskosky, Richard, (USA), Zoetrope: History and Uses.
HistoryWilliams, Susanne H. (USA), The Many Incarnations of Two American Superheroes.
O'Brien, Kevin (USA), Chuck Jones / MGM.
Russ, Paul (USA), Felix the Cat as Chaplin's Cartoon Persona.
Wagner, Hart (USA), Tom Death and Jerry Saviour: Chuck Jones Haunted Mouse and the Harrowing of Hell.
Williams, David (United Kingdom), Sniffles - The Mouse that Chuck Built.
Technology and computersDarley, Andy (Surrey Institute of Art & Design), Computer Animation: Second Order Realism & Post-Modern Aesthetics.
Wright, Richard (United Kingdom), Visual Technology and the Poetics of Knowlegde.
AestheticsKirkham, Pat (United Kingdom), Science, Technology, History and Philosophy Made Easy and Accessible.
Noake, Roger (United Kingdom),The End in Sight: Historical Narrative in Animation and Posthistoire.
O'Connell, Kenneth (USA), The Missing UPA Films: Cartoons and Modern Art.
O'Pray, Mike (University East London), Eisenstein, Stokes and Disney: Animation and the Omnipotence of Thought.
Culture and identityAllan, Robin, (InterTheatre, United Kingdom), Gustav Tenggren and European influences on Early Disney Feature Animation.
Egbert Barten & Mette Peters (The Netherlands), Animating for the Enemy: Animation Films in Holland 1940-45.
Knapp, Trischa (USA), The New Spirit Income Taxes: Donald Duck, Persuasion and World War II.
Moritz, William (California Institute of the Arts), The Idea: Bartosch & Masereel.
SIXTH ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE 1994
San Francisco State University, USA, 6-9 October
International abstracts
Noake, Roger (Surrey Institute of Art & Design), The Witchetty Grub - Len Lye's Model of Communication.
Darley, Andrew (Surrey Institute of Art & Design), The British Documentary Tradition and New-Animated Non-Fiction.
Bendazzi, Giannalberto (Italy), Osvaldo Cavandoli: A Life on the Line.
Langer, Mark (Carleton University, Ottawa), Why the Atom is Our Friend: Disney and State Interests.
Hu, Gigi (Singapore), Adaption of Traditional Ethnic Narratives into Half-English.
Williams, David (United Kingdom), The Fantasia That Wasn't Quite.
Law, Sandra (University of Calgary), Putting Themselves in the Picture - Female Images in the Work of Selected Women Animators in the UK.
Walz, Gene (University of Manitoba), Charlie Thorson and the Fleischer Brothers Studio at Twilight.
Knight, Laura (Jackdaw Media, Liverpool, United Kingdom), New British Documentary: Zoetrope Artists.
Pilling, Jayne (British Film Institute), Genre Redefinition: Redocumenting the Real.
Palmer, Roger (LaTrobe University, Australia), Cultural Difference in Reading American Animation Down Under.
Gurevich, Mikhail (Russia / USA), Literary Poetics and Animation Stylistics.
American abstractsEngel, Jules (California Institute of the Arts), Experimental Animation: Art in Motion.
Mikulak, William (University of Pensylvania), Bugs and Oscar: A History of Animation Exhibition Practices at the Museum of Modern Art, NY
DelGaudio, Sybil (Hofstra University, New York), Journey to the Mystery Place: Indigenous Forms in Faith Hubley's Cloudland and Tall-Times Tales.
Cohen, Karl (San Francisco), Importance of FBI's Walt Disney File to Animation Scholars.
Rubin, Jon (Brooklyn), Preview of 'Cartoon Chronicles' CD-ROM.
McLaughlin, Dan (University of California, Los Angeles), Animating Interactive Multimedia.
Gorringe, Carrie (Seattle), Blues in the Night(club): The Characterisation of Female Sexuality and Wartime Tensions in Coal Black an de Seven Dwarfs and Red Hot Riding Hood.
Griffin, Sean (Los Angeles), I'll Give You Such a Pinch: The 'Queerness' of Animation.
Sandler, Kevin (New York University), Gendered Envasion: Bugs Bunny in Drag.
Blonder, Roger (University of California, Los Angeles), Mosquitoes, Dinosaurs and the Image-ination.
Frierson, Michael (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), A Close Reading of A Nightmare Before Christmas.
Leskosky, Richard (University of Illinois, Urbana), Animation by the Side of the Road: Fixed Art / Moving Spectators.
Williams, Suzanne (Trinity University), Business, Regulatory and Social Structures Leading to Narrative Forms in Contemporary American Animation.
Moritz, William (California Institute of the Arts), Narrative Strategies in Borowczyk, Lenica's Home, Priit Pärn's Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe and Yori Norstein's Tale of Tales.
Staven, Karl (New York), Anijamming: Thematic Devices of a Burgeoning Sub-genre.
Morse, Deanne (Grand Valley State University), Evolution in Computer Animation Art and Design in Siggraph 1994.
McNamara, Martin (San Francisco), Animated John Henry: Race and Gender Subtexts in Heroic Legend.
Deneroff, Harvey (Los Angeles), Structural Changes in American Animation Relating to Employment Patterns, 1937-1994.
Ohmer, Susan (CUNY / College of Staten Island), Myth and Marketing: Disney Production Documentaries.
SEVENTH ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE 1995
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA, 29 September to 1 October
Disney
Sweeney, Gael (Syracuse University), 'What Do You Want Me to Do, Dress in Drag and Do the Hula?': Pumbea and Timon's Alternative Life Style Dilemma in Disney's The Lion King.
Griffin, Sean (University of California, Los Angeles), I'll Give You Such a Pinch: 'Queering' Animation.
Muwzea, Adwoa X. (Wayne State), Discourse on Disney and the Legend of Sundiata.
O'Brien, Pamela C. (Indiana University), Everybody's Busy Bringing You a Disney Afternoon: The Creation of a Consumption Community.
Ohmer, Suzan (CUNY), On the Edge: Economic and Industrial Restraints on Animation in the 1940s.
Williams, David (United Kingdom), The Dope on Dopey: The Development of Character Personality in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
International MovementsDarley, Andrew (Surrey Institute of Art & Design), Recent Experimental, Nonfiction Animation in the UK.
Lent, John A. The Status of Animation in Asia Based on Interviews with Animators in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand and India.
Herron, Alastair (University of Ulster), Practical Animation Yield in a Time of Restraint: An Irish Experience.
McNamara, Martin, Manipulation of Line in E. European Animation: Jankovics and Drajic.
AuthorshipSpringfield, Susan (SMU), Animation and German Expressionist Film: The Silhouette Films of Lotte Reiniger.
Frierson, Michael, (University of North Carolina), Tim Burton's Early Works: Vincent and Frankenweenie.
Noake, Roger (Surrey Institute of Art and Design), A World Enough and Time: George Dunning.
Technology and animationCrafton, Donald (UWM), Mickey Mouse on Broadway.
Furniss, Maureen (Chapman University), The Effects of New Technologies on Made-for-Television Animation.
Langer, Mark (Carleton University, Ottawa), Ko-Ko in Context: A Study in Early Technology and Organisation.
Leskosky, Richard (University of Illinois, Urbana), The Animation Inventions of Willis O'Brien.
Bosworth, Leah M. (RIT), An Analysis of Four Direct-On-Film Animators.
Lindvall, terry (Regent University), Darker Shades of Animation History: Cartoon Images of African Americans.
Cohen, Karl (San Francisco), How Criticism Helped Bring About the End of Black Stereotypes in Animation.
Animation and cultureDelGaudio, Sybil, (Hofstra University, New York), If 'Truth' Be Told, Can 'Toons' Tell It?: Animation and Documentary.
Sandler, Kevin (New York University), Gender-Mania: Anthropomorphization in Animaniacs.
Raffaelli, Luca (Italy), Conflicts Between Generations in the Animated Series.
Animation and sponsorshipSaks, Ron (Columbus College), The Making of Ted D. Bear: The Pitfalls of Client / Student / Classroom Relationship.
Rapf, Maurice (Dartmouth College), Animation in the Sponsored Film.
EIGHT ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE 1996
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 25-29 September
Animation technology
Leskosky, Richard (University of Illinois, Urbana), The History and Technical Development of the Mutoscope.
Shaffer, Carolyn (University of Wisconsin, Madison), The Technology of Stop-Motion Animation.
McLaughlin, Dan (University of California, Los Angeles), The Role of Animation in the New Digital Media.
Rubin, Jon (Cooper Union), Animation and New Technology.
Animation and other formsGurevich, Mikhail (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Literary Animation: Problem/Image of the Text.
Bishko, Leslie (Simon Fraser University), Laban Analysis of Squash and Stretch.
Furniss, Maureen & Beal, Anthony (Chapman University, Orange), The Adaptation of Japanese Animation Series for Use on American Television.
Japanese animationDesser, David (University of Illinois, Urbana), Why Anime?
Bordwell, David (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Stylistic Transformations Between Live-Action and Animation in Japanese Cinema.
Animation and 'live' cinemaBecker, Christine (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Cross-Over Aesthetics: Frank Tashlin's Cartoons and Live Action Films.
Sartin, Hank (NotreDame University), Anything For My Public: Bugs Bunny and the Problems of Cartoon Stardom.
Representing the 'Other'Mittell, Jason (University of Wisconsin, Madison), I'm Not Black, I'm Just Drawn That Way.
Frierson, Michael (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), The Image of the Hillbilly in Warner Bros. Cartoons of the 1930s.
Sieving, Christopher (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Mouse Trouble: A Social Analysis of MGM's Tom and Jerry Cartoons.
Animation in World War IIOkamoto, Rei (Temple University, USA), Ideological Representations and Cultural Myths in a Japanese Wartime Animated Film, Momotaro - Divine Troops of the Ocean.
DelGaudio, Sybil (Hofstra University, New York), What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? Animation and WWII Training Films.
Social constructions of cartoon stardom
Desilets, Michael, International Migration of Cartoon Stars.
Sartin, Hank, Anything For My Public: Bugs Bunny and the Problem of cartoon Stardom.
International MediaLent, John A. (Temple University, USA), Korean Animation: The Boom Years.
Camp, Brian (NUY/CUNY-TV), The Evolution of Street Fighter: From Video Game to Spiritual Quest.
Historical observationsMoritz, William (California Institute of the Arts), Abstract Dreams.
Williams, David (United Kingdom), Animating the Inanimate.
Codes of realismKreul, James (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Why Composite Roger Rabbit?
Fay, Jennifer (University of Wisconsin, Madison), The Cameraman's Revenge: The Reality Status of the Image.
Textual evolutionsLanger, Mark (Carleton University, Ottawa), Northern Silhouettes: The Works of Bryant Fryer.
Allan, Robin (InterTheatre, United Kingdom), Alice in Disneyland: The Gestation and Creation of the Animated Feature Film.
NINTH ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE 1997
University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 8-12 October
Thalmann, Nadia (Switzerland), Overview of the State of the Art in Human Figure Modeling Animation.
Animation and History: Europe & USAPeters, Mette (The Netherlands), De Moord van Raamsdonk: Dutch Shadow Show becomes Silhouette Film.
Pavlov, Boris (Filmmuseum, Russia), Animation in the ‘Russian Hollywood’ of the 1920-1930’s.
Strøm, Gunnar (Møre og Romsdal College, Norway), Desider Gross and Gasparcolor: European Producers, Norwegian Product: On Animated Cinema Commercials from the 1930’s.
DelGaudio, Sybil (Hofstra University, USA), Anonimity vs. Identity: The Uncredited Work of John and Faith Hubley.
Allan, Robin (InterTheatre, United Kingdom), Europe through American Eyes at the Disney Coal Face: The Contribution of Bob Jones, Engineer and Puppeteer, to Pinocchio and Fantasia.
Furniss, Maureen (Chapman University, USA), Stars and Stripes: Animation in American Advertising.
Langer, Mark (Carleton University, Canada), Disney, Nixon and Cold War Animation.
Sandler, Kevin (USA), Looney Tunes and Merry Metonyms: Disneyfication, Identity Politics, and the Corporatizing of Bugs Bunny.
Goergen, Jean Paul (Germany), Discovering Paul Peroff.
Moritz, William (California Institute of the Arts), Absolute Film: The Next Generation.
Floquet, Pierre (Bordeaux University, France), Tex Avery’s Comic Language: 10 Years of Creation at MGM, 1942-1951.
McNamara, Martin (USA), Patterns of Social Metaphor in New German Animation.
Animation and TechnologyLeskosky, Richard (USA), The Quest of Depth: Mechanics and Aesthetics of the American Animated Cartoon.
Izvolov, Nicolai (Russia), The History of Drawn Sound in Soviet Russia.
McLaughlin, Dan (University of California, USA), It’s About Time.
Animation and Other MediaMoins, Philippe (Belgium), Animation in Belgium: The Longstanding Relationship between the World of Publishing and the Cinema in Belgium.
Williams, David (United Kingdom), Sons of the Drawing Board: Laurel and Hardy as Cartoon Characters.
Rijken, Arnoud & Bas Brinkman (The Netherlands), Strangers in a Strange Land: on the Dramaturgy of Animation.
Carels, Edwin (Belgium), 1895: Animation, History and the Metafilm.
Buchan, Suzanne (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Vision Animated to the Bursting Point: Stylistics of Metamorphosis in Text and Film.
Muhr, Gunilla (Stockholm University, Sweden), High, Low or In-between: Disney’s 1930’s Cartoon Symphonies.
Kester, Bernadette (Erasmus University, The Netherlands), Emancipating from Realism?: Historical Representations in Animation Films.
Animation and PerceptionMukerji, Chandra & Tarleton Gillespie (University of California, USA), Recognizable Ambiguity: Cartoon Imagery and American Childhood in Animaniacs.
Yokota, Masao (Nihon University, Japan), Face Preference of Animation Characters by Japanese University Students.
Prokhorov, Anatoly (Pilot Animation Studio, Moscow), Space as a Screen, Perception as an Illusion, Culture as Sorcery.
Animation in Different CulturesLent, John & Asli Tunc (Temple University, USA), Animation in Turkey: Historical and Contemporary Problem Analyses.
Gamarra, Edward (Emory University, USA), Animus, Anima, Anime: A Jungian Approach to Japanese Animation.
Trymbach, Sergij (Ukraine), Ukrainian Animated Movie in the Space of the National Cinema Culture.
TENTH ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE 1998
Chapman University, Anaheim, USA, 6-16 August
Guldin, Jere, Puppetoons Screening and Panel on the Future of Stop-Motion Animation.Bryman, Alan, Theorizing the Early Technologies of Animation.
Leskosky, Richard J. (USA), Animation on the Outer Curve.
Fleischer Zucker, Barabara, Anna Curtis Chandler: A Storyteller Who Could Keep Them from the Movies.
Padilla, Chris, The Development of American Animation Festivals.
Gillespie, Tarleton, Toy Story and Consumer Culture.
Muhr, Gunilla, Aesthetic Strategies of the Disney Studio in the 1930’s.
Walz, Gene, Charlie Thorson and the Twilight of Fleischer Studios.
Floquet, Pierre (France), From Tex Avery’s Debut to the Beginning of His End: Recurring Theme and Evolving Style.
Yokota, Masao and Koji Nomura (Japan), The Impact of Miyazaki Hyao’s Feature Animations on Japanese Audiences.
Frierson, Michael, Clay Animation in Interactive Games.
Ohmer, Susan, Competitive Strategies at the Blue Sky Studios and Curious Pictures.
Kaufman, J.B., Variations on a Mouse.
Klein, Tom, Tex Avery on Trial!
Langer, Mark (Canada), The Freak Show Cultural Tradition in American Animation.
Callahan, Vicki, Animating the Body in the Virtual Landscape.
Raffaelli, Luca (Italy), Death and Animation.
Cholodenko, Alan (Australia), The Illusion of the Beginning, or, In the Beginning Will Have Been the End.
DelGaudio, Sybil, The Hubleys and Human Growth.
Bond, Rose and Ruth Hayes, Northwest Animation: The Roots of Creative Variance.
Tomlinson, Lynn, Launching (From) The Quays.
Ehrlich, David (USA), The Beginning of the ‘ASIFA Presents’ Collaboration Films: Aesthetic and Political Problem Solving.
Kreutz, Rune, Absolute films and the Consequences of Abstraction.
Haller, Robert A., Jim Davis: The First Eight Years.
Crone, Ton (The Netherlands), The beginning of the Netherlands Institute for Animation Film.
Goethals, Johann (Belgium), The Academy of Ghent: The First Animation Department in Europe?
Goergen, Jean Paul (Germany), Puppet Animation Film in Germany from 1915-1945.
Jackson, Wendy, Czechoslovakian Animation under Soviet Occupation.
Lent, John A. and Asli Tunc, Women and Animation in Turkey.
Bradbury, Keith (Australia), Australian Animation before Disney in Australia-Harry Julius.
Phillips, Nick, SIIARA and Bob Godfrey.
Williams, David (United Kingdom), From Cat to Mouse: Sheila Graber, UK Animator.
Allan, Robin (InterTheatre, United Kingdom), Disney’s Make Mine Music: An End and a Beginning.
ELEVENTH ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE 1999
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, 3-6 August
Bouldin, Joanna (USA), Wabbit Twouble: Bugs Bunny, Drag and the Gender-Bendable Body.Knight, Laura (United Kingdom), Mixing it: Image manipulation trends in UK contemporary short form animation.
Burgess, Colin, The Shell Film Unit: Beginnings.
Strøm, Gunnar (Norway), Desider Gross and Gasparcolor - two years after.
Goergen, Jean Paul (Germany), The History of Hand Drawn Sound in Germany (1932).
Crogan, Patrick (Australia), Perspectives in 3D animation in Australia.
Leskosky, Richard (USA), Animating between the Lines: Grid Animation.
Vasseleu, Cathryn, The Moving Image and Spectacular Animation.
Langer, Mark (Canada), Cyborgs before Computers: The Rotoscope as Prosthesis.
Farley, Rebecca, Play and Transformation: The Animated Aesthetic.
Oancea, Sorin, Jan Svankmajer: Alchemist or Social Critic?
Dawson, Jonathan (Australia), A Regional Life — Images of Queensland and the animation of Max Bannah.
Begg, Jane (Australia), Silicon Pulp.
Palmer, Roger (Australia), The National Style: a case of ‘Footrot Flats’.
Cholodenko, Alan (Australia), Apocalyptic Anime: In the Wake of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Godzilla.
Schaeffer, William, Struggling with an Invisible Hand: Exploring the Specificity of Animation, From Cohl to Kricfalusi.
Furniss, Maureen (USA), Real Time Aesthetics.
Asia-Pacific FocusDobson, Terence (New Zealand), The Filmmaker as Overseas Aid: Norman McLaren in Asia.
Yokota, Masao (Japan), Isao Takahata; The Animation Director who worries about the Mental Health of the Young Generation.
Routt, William (Australia), Stillness and (e) motion in Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Floquet, Pierre (France), Avery’s World in Asterix Land.
Williams-Rautiola, Suzanne (USA), The Aesthetics of 3D Computer Animation in Television Programming.
Wulf, Junia (Australia), Voice Actors: Are they being heard in the Animation Industry.
McLaughlin, Dan (USA), Z Axis Animation and the Free Lancing of Bill Littlejohn.
TWELFTH ANNUAL SAS CONFERENCE 2000
University of Trondheim, Norway, 5-9 AugustDigital topics
Knight, Laura (Staffordshire University, United Kingdom), From Flip to Zip: Patterns of Delivering Animation Education to Pre Degree Students as Part of a School Curriculum.
Palmer, Roger (Australia), The Animated Image: Tradition versus Technology Down-Under.
Childs, Lucy (University of Luton, United Kingdom), The Ghost of Happy Accident.
Southall, John (United Kingdom), Expanding Boundaries - Setting Boundaries: The Role of Theory and Paradigms in Understanding Developments in Animation.
Bradbury, Keith (Griffith University, Australia), Towards a Spiritualist Aesthetic: Boundaries in Cyberspace?
Estela Graca, Marina (Universidade do Algarve, Portugal), Physiology: towards Animation Poetics.
Watson, Paul (United Kingdom), The World Well Lost.
Other topicsStrøm, Gunnar (Volda University Highschool, Norway), The Animated Documentary: a Performative Tradition.
Floquet, Pierre (Ecole Nationale Supèrieure d'Electronique et de Radioèlectricitè de Bordeaux, France), Animated Characters: Actioned, or Actors?
Leskosky, Richard J. (University of Illinois, USA), J. R. Bray's 1916 Animation Patent.
Allan, Robin (InterTheatre, United Kingdom), Fantasia Now and Then: an Exploration of the New Fantasia 2000 compared with its 1940 Forerunner.
Williams, David (United Kingdom), A Line in Your Lap.
Goergen, Jean Paul (Germany), Animated Propaganda in Germany.
Peters, Mette & Egbert Barten (The Netherlands), Mostly Hidden Away: Animation Film in the Netherlands 1940-1945.
Asia PanelLent, John, A., Animation in South and Southeast Asia.
Ying, Xu, Animation in Bejing.
Holmen, K. Hee OH (California Institute of the Arts, USA), Cross Cultural References in Japanese Animation: A Survey on Kiki's Delivery Service with Scandinavian Audience.
Yokota, Masao, Masashi Koide, and Koji Nomura (Nihon University, Japan), Psychological Dependence in Japanese Animation films: A Case of Rin Taro.
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