Animated Documentary

Animated Documentary, the first book to be published on this fascinating topic, considers how animation is used as a representational strategy in nonfiction film and television and explores the ways animation expands the range and depth of what documentar

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Animated Documentary

Animated Documentary Annabelle Honess Roe

© Annabelle Honess Roe 2013 Corrected Printing 2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-01745-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries ISBN 978-1-349-43709-2 ISBN 978-1-137-01746-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137017468 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

Contents List of Figures

vi

Acknowledgements

vii

Introduction Animation and documentary’s shared history Scope and organisation

1 5 13

1 Representational Strategies How animation is used in animated documentary The ontology of animated documentary

17 22 27

2 Digital Realities Dino-docs and strategies of visual and aural authentication Tracing the sights and sounds of reality in Rotoshop and Chicago 10 Paratextual authentication The excess of animated realism

41 45 55 65 67

3 Animated Interviews Uncanny bodies Absence as representational strategy The expressive power of the disembodied voice

74 80 87 97

4 The World in Here More than the interview seen: Sheila Sofian’s illustrated interviews Inside out: animating subjective experience Hybrids of reality Animated awareness

106

5 Animated Memories (Dis)continuities: the self in history The unspoken and the forgotten: the trauma in/of history in Silence and Waltz with Bashir

139 146

Afterword

170

Notes

174

Bibliography

180

Index

189 v

112 117 124 135

155

List of Figures I.1 1.1 2.1 2.2 2.3 3.1 3.2 3.3 4