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Supporting the study of animation since 1987 Our Purpose The Society for Animation Studies brings together theory and practice within its diverse membership. Theory/Practice Join Today! Become part of this active and supportive community and join the SAS today!

Welcome to the Society for Animation Studies!

The Society for Animation Studies (SAS) is an international organization dedicated to the study of animation history and theory. It was founded by Dr. Harvey Deneroff in 1987. Each year, the SAS holds an annual conference at locations throughout the world, where members present their recent research. For more information, contact SAS President Dr. Chris Pallant at president@animationstudies.org.

The 2023 Annual Conference is being hosted by Rowan University, USA, and will run: 12-16 June. For more information about the Annual Conference, visit the conference website here.

The SAS also publishes two peer reviewed publications: Animation Studies, the society’s own Open Access  journal, and the Open Access blog Animation Studies 2.0. The most recent articles from these two publications, alongside the SAS’s Twitter feed, are featured below.

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Animation Studies Journal

  • 13 December 2022
    Elena Altheman – Adventure Time’s World-Building: Analyzing Its Opening Title Sequence and the Mobile Map
  • 12 December 2022
    Rea Amit – The Legend of Prince Rama and the Emergence of an Indian Animé: A Japanese Mediation of the Sanskrit Epic
  • 30 May 2022
    Giuseppe Gatti – Notes on Transnational Animation and the Pokémon Culture in South Park’s “Chinpokomon”
  • 30 May 2022
    Sandeep Ashwath – Mythical Past, Animated Present
  • 30 May 2022
    Emmett Redding – From Zeman to Gilliam: The Evolution of Mystimation
  • 8 November 2021
    Kristian Jared Robinson – Between a “Rock” and a Hard Place: The Hybridization of Analog and Digital in The Iron Giant
  • 15 June 2021
    Pedro Serrazina – Animation, Gentrification and Social Experience
  • 15 June 2021
    Ole Christoffer Haga – Film Style in Cinematic VR
  • 14 June 2021
    Sara Álvarez Sarrat – Innocent and Invisible: Women Behind Bars in Animated Documentaries
  • 14 June 2021
    Elizaveta Shneyderman – Parameterization: On Animation and Future Corporealities

Animation Studies 2.0

  • 18 May 2023
    A Moving Feast: “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”
  • 7 March 2023
    Representations of Muslim Trauma in The Breadwinner (2017)
  • 28 February 2023
    Mythology of Repetition, Memitology in Animated Gifs
  • 21 February 2023
    The Animator-as-Creator “Theology” in Still Alive (2018)
  • 14 February 2023
    Revelation of the Author and Incarnation in the Animated Film
  • 7 February 2023
    Theology and Animated Parables
  • 31 January 2023
    Animation as Sacred Text: Thoughts on Community Formation
  • 9 January 2023
    Animated Intergenerational Interviews
  • 3 October 2022
    The Ugly Anthropocene: Animated Simulation and Non-Human Perspectives
  • 26 September 2022
    A Town Called Panic!’s “Bricolage” Aesthetic and Low-budget Methods: A New Model for Ecological and Resilient Stop Motion Productions
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