Animating the Surreal Side of Structural Film
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Source Publication
Surrealism and Animation
Link to Published Version
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/surrealism-and-animation-9781350475939/
Publication Date
5-15-2025
Editor
Abigail Susik
Publisher
Bloomsbury
City
London
ISBN
9781350475915
First Page
213
Last Page
225
Department
English
Description
From Betty Boop to Donald Duck, Tex Avery to Walt Disney, collage animation to Japanese anime, and Claymation to 3D animation, Surrealism and Animation is the first book to identify correspondences between the art of animation and the International Surrealist Movement.
Sharing a deep commitment to a reanimation of everyday life, surrealist artists and animators sought a marvellous, living form of art. Cartoons and trick films by pioneers such as Georges Méliès were influential for Salvador Dalí and André Breton, among others; many other surrealists and their associates such as Max Ernst, Joseph Cornell, Hans Richter, Len Lye, Roland Topor, Jan Švankmajer, and Lawrence Jordan turned to animated cinema and theories of animacy to express their surrealist visions.
Surrealism and Animation is the first book devoted to surrealism's vivid engagement with the history, theory, and medium of animation on a transnational basis. Featuring seventeen essays by leading and emerging scholars, as well as interviews with contemporary artists Penny Slinger and Jacolby Satterwhite, this collection investigates a shimmering range of topics on animated surrealism, including black humour, queer subjectivities, ecofeminism, Black surrealisms, and more.
Recommended Citation
Eisenstein, Ken, "Animating the Surreal Side of Structural Film" (2025). Faculty Contributions to Books. 346.
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/fac_books/346