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ANIMATING DOCUMENTARY
by
Annabelle Honess Roe
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(CINEMATIC ARTS—CRITICAL STUDIES)
December 2009
Copyright 2009 Annabelle Honess Roe
Object Description
| Title | Animating documentary |
| Author | Roe, Annabelle Honess |
| Author email | honess@usc.edu; ajhroe@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Cinema-Television (Critical Studies) |
| School | School of Cinematic Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-07-29 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-09-24 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Renov, Michael |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Lippit, Akira Wilson, George |
| Abstract | This dissertation is a study of animated documentaries through the lens of epistemology. I argue that animation expands the documentary’s epistemological realm. Not only by presenting the conventional subject matter of documentaries (the “world out there” of observable, the witnessable and the external) in new ways, but also through animation’s potential to visually convey the “world in here” of the personal, the subjective and the internal. In this way, the animated documentary literally animates and enlivens the documentary and, with it, documentary studies – casting new light on some of the central questions of this discipline. As such, my dissertation broadens the scope of both documentary studies and animation studies and the expectations we might have from both of these forms.; I begin with the suggestion that there are two key ways in which animation functions in a non-fiction context: either to substitute for missing live-action material or to interpret the world and reality in an expressive way. I suggest that this differs from the way animation and documentary have traditionally been hybridised and in my first chapter I demonstrate this through an examination of the historical precedent for the convergence of animation and documentary. In chapters two through four the main argument of the dissertation is illustrated through textual analysis of animated documentaries made in the last twenty years. Chapter two deals films and television programmes in which computer-generated animation attempts to mimic the look of reality and photoreality. Chapters three and four approach the more interpretive use of animation in films that attempt to reveal the world from someone else’s psychological point of view. These examples demonstrate the application of animation’s unique expressive potential to the revelation of the subjective. In the final chapter I look at animated documentaries and memory and at how animation has been used in autobiographical documentaries as a way of accessing the forgotten and traumatic past. |
| Keyword | film; cinema; documentary; animation; epistemology; knowledge |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2612 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Roe, Annabelle Honess |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Roe-3209 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Roe-3209.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | ANIMATING DOCUMENTARY by Annabelle Honess Roe A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CINEMATIC ARTS—CRITICAL STUDIES) December 2009 Copyright 2009 Annabelle Honess Roe |
