Animated ‘Worlds’ is an edited compilation of the papers presented at the Animated ‘Worlds’ conference held in 2003 at Farnham Castle, UK. What do we mean by the term ‘animation’ when we are discussing film? Is it a technique? – A style? – A way of seeing or experiencing ‘a world’ that has little relation to our own lived experience of ‘the world’? The Animated ‘Worlds’ anthology presents a selection of topics from the 2003 Animated ‘Worlds’ conference held in England. Essays range from close film analyses to phenomenological and cognitive approaches, spectatorship, performance, literary theory and digital aesthetics that reveal the astonishing variety of ‘worlds’ animation confronts us with.

The authors are: Suzanne Buchan (Editor), Heather Crow, Miriam Harris, Rachel Kearney, Thomas Lamarre, Vivian Sobchack, David Surman, Paul Ward, Karin Wehn, Richard Weihe, Paul Wells and Suzanne Williams-Rautiola.

Chapter titles:
1. The Joyous Reception: Animated Worlds and the Romantic Imagination (Rachel Kearney)
2. The Animated Spectator: Watching the Quay Brothers' 'Worlds' (Suzanne Buchan)
3. The Strings of the Marionette (Richard Weihe)
4. Gesturing toward Olympia (Heather Crow)
5. Literary Len: 'Trade Tattoo' and Len Lye's Link with the Literary Avant-Garde (Miriam Harris)
6. Literary Theory, Animation and the 'Subjective Correlative: Defining the Narrative 'World' in Brit-lit Animation (Paul Wells)
7. Animated Fathers: Representations of Masculinity in 'The Simpson's and 'King of the Hill' (Suzanne Williams-Rautiola)
8. Animated Interactions: Animation Aesthetics and the World of the 'Interactive Documentary (Paul Ward)
9. New Media Worlds (Thomas Lamarre)
10. Style, Consistency nd Plausibility in the 'Fable' Gameworld (David Surman)
11. Final Fantasies: Computer Graphic Animation and the [Dis]Illusion of Life (Vivian Sochack)
12. An Unrecognised Treasure Chest: The Internet as an Animation Archive (Karen Wehn)

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