Contents - Recontextualizing Animation, CGI, and Visual Effects

Dissecting Bambi: Multiplanar Photography, the Cel Technique, and the Flowering of Full Animation

Casey Riffel

On Styles of Theorizing Animation Styles: Stanley Cavell at the Cartoon’s Demise

Ryan Pierson

Kung Fu Panda: Animated Animal Bodies as Layered Sites of (Trans)National Identities

Hye Jean Chung

Is It Real . . . or Is It Motion Capture? The Battle to Redefine Animation in the Age of Digital Performance

Yacov Freedman

An Interview with Geoff Marslett of Swerve Pictures

The Editors

An Interview with Bob Sabiston of Flat Black Films

The Editors

Book Reviews

The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture by Rob King

Reviewed by Paul Monticone

Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood by Mark Garrett Cooper

Reviewed by Paul Monticone

Letterboxed: The Evolution of Widescreen Cinema by Harper Cossar

Reviewed by Eliot Chayt

Widescreen Worldwide edited by John Belton, Sheldon Hall, and Steve Neale

Reviewed by Eliot Chayt

The New Entrepreneurs: An Institutional History of Television Anthology Writers by Jon Kraszewski

Reviewed by Joshua Gleich

Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada edited by Thomas Waugh, Michael Brendan Baker, and Ezra Winton

Reviewed by Laura Dixon

Hollywood Reborn: Movie Stars of the 1970s edited by James Morrison

Reviewed by R. Colin Tait

Contents - The Materiality of Media

The Lost Studio of Atlantis: Norman Bel Geddes’s Failed Revolution in Television Form

Joshua Gleich

Materiality and Meaning in Recent Projection Performance

Jonathan Walley

The Warner Archive and DVD Collecting in the New Home Video Market

Bradley Schauer

Executable Images: The Enactment and Distribution of Movies in Computer Networks

Gabriel Menotti Gonring

Dossier: Materiality and the Archive

Kit Hughes and Heather Heckman

Book Reviews

Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture by Jeffrey A. Brown

Reviewed by Chelsea McCracken

Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema by Allan Cameron

Reviewed by Matt Connolly

Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire That Lost the Cultural Cold War by Kristin Roth-Ey

Reviewed by Booth Wilson

Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates edited by Adrian Johns

Reviewed by Andrew J. Bottomley