Girl Cartoons and the Role of Women as Television Executives in the 1990s ~ Katia Perea

Oct 10, 2017 | Animation, Digital Media/Internet, Television, Volume 29

Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, Volume 29, 2017 Abstract: This article discusses the influence of the women purveyors who have been instrumental in the development of US television cartoons. It focuses on the US 1990s digital era upon which the...

“Children should play with dead things”: transforming Frankenstein in Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie – Erin Hawley

Oct 7, 2015 | Animation, fan culture, Film, Uncategorized, Volume 26

Abstract: In this paper, I explore the possibility of retelling Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein in a children’s media text.  Like most material within the horror genre, Frankenstein is not immediately accessible to children and its key themes and tropes have...

Read, Watch, Listen: A commentary on eye tracking and moving images – Tim J. Smith

Feb 7, 2015 | Animation, Digital Media/Internet, Film, Sound, Television, Volume 25

Abstract Eye tracking is a research tool that has great potential for advancing our understanding of how we watch movies. Questions such as how differences in the movie influences where we look and how individual differences between viewers alters what we see can be...

From Subtitles to SMS: Eye Tracking, Texting and Sherlock – Tessa Dwyer

Feb 7, 2015 | Animation, Digital Media/Internet, Film, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 25

Abstract As we progress into the digital age, text is experiencing a resurgence and reshaping as blogging, tweeting and phone messaging establish new textual forms and frameworks. At the same time, an intrusive layer of text, obviously added in post, has started to...

How We Came To Eye Tracking Animation: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Researching the Moving Image – Craig Batty, Claire Perkins, & Jodi Sita

Feb 6, 2015 | Animation, Digital Media/Internet, Film, Volume 25

Abstract In this article, three researchers from a large cross-disciplinary team reflect on their individual experiences of a pilot study in the field of eye tracking and the moving image. The study – now concluded – employed a montage sequence from the Pixar film Up...

Volume 24, 2014

Aug 6, 2014 | Animation, Digital Media/Internet, Film, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 24

Themed Issue: Intermediations Edited by Kevin Fisher and Holly Randell-Moon Contents: 1. Editorial Introduction — Kevin Fisher and Holly Randell-Moon 2. Animating Ephemeral Surfaces: Transparency, Translucency and Disney’s World of Color  — Kirsten Moana...