The Computer-Animated Film

The Computer-Animated Film is ambitious in its scope and comprehensive in its coverage, which alone would make a go-to text in the still-comparatively underserved field of contemporary animation. On top of this, its intelligent critique and potentially controversial genre-based approach make it an engaging read for experienced animation scholars.' -- Sam Summers * animationstudies 2.0 *
Holliday writes with an appealing style, covering the changing fortunes of the computer-animation industry with verve and appeal. -- Paul Taberham, Arts University Bournemouth * Projections 14.2 *
Holliday persuasively argues that contemporary computer animation feature films constitute a genre in their own right. Re-positioning genre through fresh configurations of how computer animated films relate to each other, he analyzes their ideologically-charged formal and technical characteristics, successfully revealing new systems of textual properties and affordances. Insisting that the very ‘animatedness’ of computer animation invokes a revision of the traditional cartoon, conventional film tropes and digital moving images, Holliday properly traces the influence of animation in the re-invention of mainstream movies per se. -- Professor Paul Wells, Animation Academy, Loughborough University