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Animation: textural difference and the materiality of Holocaust memory
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-09, 02:54 authored by Victoria Grace WaldenThe notion of “Holocaust animation” may seem paradoxical; how can a medium which, in the popular eye, is usually associated with comedy, play and fantasy be used to remember one of the 20th century’s most traumatic events? By examining the textural difference of animation to our lived world in texts such as Silence (Yadin and Bringas 1998) and I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors (Ann Marie Fleming 2010), it becomes clear how the medium can emphasise the fragile materiality of Holocaust memory. Adopting a methodology which blends transcendental phenomenology, as first outlined by Edmund Husserl, and existential phenomenology, brought into film studies in particular by Vivian Sobchack and Laura U. Marks, this paper considers the ability for animation to engage spectators with the materiality of memory, through bringing to the foreground a different way of experiencing the world to the quotidian.
History
Publication status
- Published
File Version
- Published version
Journal
Animation Studies Online JournalISSN
1930-1928Publisher
Society for Animation StudiesVolume
9Department affiliated with
- Media and Film Publications
Full text available
- Yes
Peer reviewed?
- Yes