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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

  • 20 June 2023
    Anastasiia Gushchina – Towards a Materialist Theory of Animated Documentary
  • 20 June 2023
    JS Wu – Hand of Artist, Voice of Griot: A Poetics of African Animation in the Films of Jean-Michel Kibushi
  • 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

Animation Studies 2.0

  • 5 December 2023
    Review: French Animation History (2011), by Richard Neupert
  • 28 November 2023
    Psychology and The Train Illusion, Walk Cycles, and Induced Motion in Animation
  • 21 November 2023
    Memories in the Sky: Remembrance, History, and Aviation in Porco Rosso (1992)
  • 14 November 2023
    Recollecting Ivor the Engine (1959)
  • 7 November 2023
    The Material Ropeway in Wes Anderson’s Isles of Dogs (2018)
  • 31 October 2023
    Hideaki Anno’s Train Sets
  • 24 October 2023
    Around Fuji: Panoramic Vision as a Postmodern Sensibility
  • 17 October 2023
    Background Developments – Technology and the Process of Animating Vehicles 
  • 11 October 2023
    Review: Coraline: A Closer Look at Studio LAIKA’s Stop-Motion Witchcraft (2021), ed. Mihaela Mihailova
  • 14 August 2023
    “They Are Chasing Me”: Animation Of Non-Protagonist Elements in Video Games
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