The Society for Animation Studies is now accepting submissions for the Maureen Furniss Award for Best Student Paper on Animated Media! Entries must be previously unpublished academic papers – completed in 2021 – that contribute to the field of animation studies, broadly defined. The winning paper will be published in Animation Studies, the Society for Animation Studies’ peer-reviewe...
Announcing the 2020 Maureen Furniss Award Recipients
The Society for Animation Studies is happy to announce that the recipient of this year's Maureen Furniss Award for Best Student Paper on Animated Media is Brittany Bailey, Arts University Bournemouth, for “Can Video Games Make us More Ethically Informed?” - a piece that is both fabulous and our first video game-themed winner! The selection committee has also awarded Honorable Mentions to the ...
2019 NORMAN McLAREN – EVELYN LAMBART AWARD FOR “BEST SCHOLARLY ARTICLE ON ANIMATION”
From October 1, 2019 until December 31, 2019, the Society for Animation Studies is accepting electronic submission of articles dedicated to the scholarly study of animation history and theory published from 2017 to 2019 for the McLaren-Lambart Award to be announced June 2020. Work must be self-submitted by the author (not the publisher), and the author must have active membership in the Society f...
McLaren-Lambart Award for the Best Scholarly Book on Animation – 2019 Call for Entries
The Society for Animation Studies announces a call for entries for the 2019 McLaren-Lambart Award for the Best Scholarly Book on Animation. Entries must be a book – both monographs and edited collections are accepted – published in 2017 or 2018 that contributes to the field of animation studies. An author must be a current member of the SAS, and authors must nominate themselves and arrange f...