The Crafty Animator: Handmade, Craft-Based Animation and Cultural Value

I have written a chapter for the new Palgrave Macmillan book The Crafty Animator: Handmade, Craft-Based Animation and Cultural Value.

My chapter, Autobiography and Authenticity in Stop-motion Animation, looks at personal animation based on the animator’s own experiences. It suggests that this work can appear more truthful or authentic through the use of a range of ‘warranting strategies’ and ‘authenticity effects’ including the adoption of an overtly handmade aesthetic. The chapter uses two case studies: Karen Watson’s Daddy’s Little Bit of Dresden China (1998) and Timothy Mercier’s Model Childhood (2017).