Global Animation Theory ─ International Perspectives at Animafest Zagreb

Scanning historical and current trends in animation through different perspectives including art history, film, media and cultural studies is a prominent facet of today's theoretical and historical approaches in this rapidly evolving field. Global Animation Theory offers detailed and diverse insights into the methodologies of contemporary animation studies, as well as the topics relevant for today's study of animation. The contact between practical and theoretical approaches to animation at Animafest Scanner, is closely connected to host of this event, the World Festival of Animated Film Animafest Zagreb. It has given way to academic writing that is very open to practical aspects of animation, with several contributors being established not only as animation scholars, but also as artists. This anthology presents, alongside an introduction by the editors and a preface by well known animation scholar Giannalberto Bendazzi, 15 selected essays from the first three Animafest Scanner editions. They explore various significant aspects of animation studies, some of them still unknown to the English speaking communities.

Franziska Bruckner is a lecturer in animation theory at the University of Vienna, Austria, Eberhard Karls University Tubingen, Germany, and the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria.

Holger Lang is an Austrian researcher, artist and filmmaker, living and working in Vienna. For over 20 years he has been teaching animation, media arts and aesthetics for an American university at one of their satellite locations in Austria and also their main campus in St. Louis, USA.

Nikica Gilic is an associate professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, where he teaches history and theory of cinema.

Daniel ?uljic is an animation film director and a musician.

Hrvoje Turkovic is a Croatian film theorist, film critic and university professor.