Hidden in Plain Sight

Williamson, Colin

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“…Scholars have examined the historical and ontological connections between early cinema, wonder and magic (Barnouw, 1981;Gunning, 1989;Solomon, 2010;Souriau, 1952). Colin Williamson (2011Williamson ( , 2015 has examined the shared history between magic and cinema, uncovering 'what unifies' them in order to answer the question 'how and to what extent do the tricks of digital technologies resonate with the manual and mechanical magic of early cinema?' Williamson argues that the figure of the magician has remained central to cinema, even with the technological changes brought about by digital media.…”

Section: Magic Trick Films and The (Prestidigit)animateurmentioning

confidence: 99%

Para-animation in Practice and Theory: The Animateur, the Embodied Gesture and Enchantment

Voci

2023

Animation

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Animateurs are characterized by liminality or, possibly more accurately, intersectionality, vis-à-vis the mainstream and the avant-garde. Their vernacular creative work points to hybrid genealogies that include analogue handmade cinema and performing arts, such as the magic lantern show, puppetry and shadow play. The author proposes that animateurs develop a distinctive practice and theory of animation that can be best understood as ‘ para-animation’, i.e. a liminal, nearby, or off idea of animation that critically expands theories of the moving image and media archaeology. In para-animation, the moving image is non-medium specific, freed from both the index and the virtual, as reality is not there to be (re)presented or remade, but instead to be reconnected with. Para-animation’s uncontainable and overflowing multimedia materialities challenge film’s representational and photographic genealogy and actualize the moving image as a key location for an alternative, both embodied and enchanted, experience of the modern world. In so doing, para-animation also reveals multidirectional – across times and places – connections between animateurs and other enchanters (inventors, prestidigitators, performers, storytellers), similarly crossing and morphing boundaries between technology and magic, representation and imagination, science and art, knowledge and pleasure. Referring to a selection of animateurs’ works, this article focuses on the embodied gesture of ‘the hand on-screen’ as one of the key modalities through which para-animation re-centres the body and allows for a simultaneously technologized and de-technologized re-enchanted experience of reality.

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Section: Magic Trick Films and The (Prestidigit)animateurmentioning

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Para-animation in Practice and Theory: The Animateur, the Embodied Gesture and Enchantment

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2023

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“…86 Errol Henderson notes that "[i]n their analyses of race, imperialism, and war [these scholars] were not only critiquing white supremacist international relations, [but] were proposing empirical theory on how world politics operated and not only how white racist scholars rationalised it." 87 Intellectual decolonization, or a post-racist IR, will require not only the centring of marginalized interpretations and voices but also the reinterpretation (and potential decentring) of prevailing ones to reveal their obscured shortcomings. 88 It would also require IR to think beyond its decidedly stringent Western, rationalist framework by moving beyond its earlier essentialist characterizations of "the West" and "the rest."…”

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Decolonizing International Relations and Development Studies: What’s in a buzzword?

Sondarjee

Andrews

2022

International Journal

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Over the past decade, there has been a new “decolonial turn,” albeit less related than before to land and political independence. “To decolonize” is now associated with something less tangible and often under-defined. We argue that scholars, especially Western ones, should avoid depoliticizing the expression “decolonizing” by using it as a buzzword. Scholars and policymakers should use the expression only if it is closely related to the political meaning ascribed to it by Global South and Indigenous activists and scholars. Decoloniality is a political project of human emancipation through collective struggles, entailing at least the following: 1) abolishing racial hierarchies within the hetero-patriarchal and capitalist world order, 2) dismantling the geopolitics of knowledge production, and 3) rehumanizing our relationships with Others and nature. We conclude that there is a need for epistemic humility and that Western scholars and institutions must refrain from using the word too freely.

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Palgrave Animation

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Hidden in Plain Sight

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Para-animation in Practice and Theory: The Animateur, the Embodied Gesture and Enchantment

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Decolonizing International Relations and Development Studies: What’s in a buzzword?

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