Absence, Excess and Epistemological Expansion: Towards a Framework for the Study of Animated Documentary

• Published in: Animation : an interdisciplinary journal Vol. 6; no. 3; pp. 215 - 230
• Main Author: Roe, Annabelle Honess
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.11.2011
• Subjects: epistemology; animated documentary; The Sinking of the Lusitania; mimesis; Walking with Dinosaurs; realism; documentary; animation; Creature Comforts; documentary modes

This article gives an overview of the history of animated documentary, both in regard to the form itself and how it has been studied. It then goes on to present a new way of thinking about animated documentary, in terms of the way the animation functions in the texts by asking what the animation doe...