Drawn from Life

The first book to explore the field of animated documentaries from a diverse range of scholarly and practice-based perspectives. Defines the central characteristics of the animated documentary film. Challenges and extends orthodox definitions of documentary cinema as well as animation. Surveys a diverse range of film works, genres, production techniques, historical eras, and cultural contexts.

This collection looks at the ways in which cognition is explicitly or implicitly conceived of as distributed across brain, body and world in Enlightenment and Romantic science, medicine, philosophy, art, literature and drama.Drawn from Life, a multidisciplinary anthology, introduces readers to a diverse range of filmmakers past and present who use the animated image as a documentary tool. In doing so, it explores a range of questions that preoccupy twenty-first-century film artists and audiences alike: Why use animation to document? How do such images reflect and influence our understanding and experience of'reality'? From early cinema to present-day scientific research, military uses, digital art and gaming, Drawn from Life casts new light on the capacity of the moving image to act as a record of the world around us.