asting a long shadow across the cinemagraphic landscape, the monolith in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is arguably the most recognizable artefact in science fiction film. Simultaneously ancient and futuristic, this enigmatic signifier of the origin and evolution of homo technologus is an apropos ‘site’ to introduce the central concern of t…
he first chapter of this section traces Marcin Giz ̇ycki’s personal animation journey since 1980.As editor- in-chief of the ASIFAquarterly Animafilm,he published the now infamous definition on animation,which was agreed to at the Board’s meeting,taking place at the Animafest Zagreb in the same year: ‘The art of animation is the creation of moving images through the manipulation of all va…
Certainly it comes as news to no one that television has been a mainstay of modern home life since its arrival in the living rooms of American families in the 1950s. The media theorist Lynn Spigel, one of the foremost authori-ties on mass culture at midcentury, points out that while only 9 percent of American homes had a television set in 1950, postwar consumers purchas…