This episode features a conversation with Tom Lynch, a final year undergraduate student on the BA (Hons) Animation course at Cardiff School of Art & Design, about their final year research which explores the concept of defamiliarization in the context of animation to try to understand how subverting narrative norms might impact the viewer.
In conversation with Tom are Dr Martyn Woodward and Tom Edgar
You can find out more about Tom’s work via Vimeo here.
If you would like to follow up on some of the ideas discussed in this episode you may find the following resources interesting:
Walsh, M. (1981) The Brechtian Aspect of Radical Cinema. Edited by Griffiths, K.M. London: BFI Publishing.
McCloud, S. (1994) Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. 1st Harper Perennial ed. New York: Harper Perennial.
Wells, P. (1998) Understanding Animation. London: Routledge.
Media Practice: Film Form. (2009) ‘Defamiliarization (II): Alexander Rodchenko’, Film Form/Film Practice, 9 September [Blog]. Available here.
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