%0 Journal Article
%T Letting Go: Representation, Presentation, and Disney¡¯s Art of Animation
%A JP Telotte
%J Animation
%@ 1746-8485
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1746847719858159
%X This article considers two linked developments in Disney animation at a major point of change for the studio. One is the effort to craft a new ¡®logistics of perception¡¯ or way of seeing and appreciating Disney¡¯s work in this period. Prompting that effort is the other, a shift from the studio¡¯s early emphasis on realistic representation, or an ¡®illusion of life¡¯, to what might be termed a presentational approach that repackaged Disney animation and re-framed its experience. These developments, observed in episodes of the Disneyland TV series of the 1950s¨C1960s dedicated to ¡®the art of animation¡¯, anticipate the emergence of new styles in Disney animation and of a new approach to animation that would eventually be reflected in the development of audio-animatronics and theme parks
%K animation
%K art
%K audio-animatronics
%K cartoon
%K Disney
%K Disneyland
%K illusion of life
%K marketing
%K representation
%K television
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1746847719858159