Intermediality in Soviet and Post-Soviet Animation

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

Animation is an ultimate intermedial and intercultural medium—it is capable of appropriating and repurposing a variety of other media, including literature, theater, painting, sculpture, and others, and it transgresses cultures, transplanting cultural ideas and reinterpreting them. Analyzing animation from intermedial and intercultural perspectives allows for a deeper understanding of the culture that produces animation, as well as of the genesis of the animated imagery. This panel will explore intermediality of animation using several case studies of Soviet and Post-Soviet animated films. The presenters will analyze the animated adaptation of Shakespeare in the post-Soviet limited series Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992-94), the image of England created in late-Soviet animation, and the painterly origins of Soviet auteur animation.

Sub Unit

• Cinema/Television/Electronic Media

Chair

• Zhanna Budenkova, U of Pittsburgh

Papers

• Soviet Animation and Shakespeare’s Words in Shakespeare: The Animated Tales - Sabina Amanbayeva, Oklahoma City U

• Late-Soviet Animation and the Image of England - Elena Goodwin, U of Portsmouth (UK)

• Animating Art: Soviet Art of Animation - Olga Blackledge, Bethany College

Discussant

• Laura Pontieri, U of Toronto (Canada)

Session Manager

• Leora Eisenberg, Harvard U