Drawn from Life, a multidisciplinary anthology, introduces readers to a diverse range of filmmakers past and present who use the animated image as a documentary tool. In doing so, it explores a range of questions that preoccupy twenty-first-century film artists and audiences alike: Why use animation to document? How do such images reflect and influence our understanding and experience of'reality'? From early cinema to present-day scientific research, military uses, digital art and gaming, Drawn from Life casts new light on the capacity of the moving image to act as a record of the world around us.

The first book to explore the field of animated documentaries from a diverse range of scholarly and practice-based perspectives. Defines the central characteristics of the animated documentary film. Challenges and extends orthodox definitions of documentary cinema as well as animation. Surveys a diverse range of film works, genres, production techniques, historical eras, and cultural contexts.

About the Author
Jonathan Murray is Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at Edinburgh College of Art. Nea Ehrlich recently completed her PhD in Art History at the University of Edinburgh.


Book Information
ISBN 9780748694112
Author Jonathan Murray
Format Hardback
Page Count 540
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press