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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 2022 Annual Conference is being hosted by Teesside University, UK, and will run: 26 June – 3 July. 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

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

Animation Studies 2.0

  • Representations of Muslim Trauma in The Breadwinner (2017)
  • Mythology of Repetition, Memitology in Animated Gifs
  • The Animator-as-Creator “Theology” in Still Alive (2018)
  • Revelation of the Author and Incarnation in the Animated Film
  • Theology and Animated Parables
  • Animation as Sacred Text: Thoughts on Community Formation
  • Animated Intergenerational Interviews
  • The Ugly Anthropocene: Animated Simulation and Non-Human Perspectives
  • A Town Called Panic!’s “Bricolage” Aesthetic and Low-budget Methods: A New Model for Ecological and Resilient Stop Motion Productions
  • Should the Low Frame Rate of Stop-motion Animation Be Regarded as a Defect?
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