Animation: The Enchanted Life of the Moving Image

How does an image come to life? From story to page to screen, we will explore the development of the moving image in its most basic form. We will begin with early experiments in the visual depiction of movement and then explore developments in motion photography, early cinema and eventually animation. With stories ranging from Lotte Reiniger’s Adventures of Prince Achmed and Émile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie to Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio and Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy, we will chart fantasies of images that come to life and the futures that they allow us to imagine.

Satisfies General Education Requirements:

• Group-Satisfying: Arts and Letters
• Multicultural Courses: International Cultures (IC)
• Core Education Multicultural: Global Perspectives (GP)