Exaggerated Images: Animation and Reality

Though ordinarily associated with children's entertainment, animation has an ability to express the absurd and the profound across a broad range of narratives and themes. Looking at the ways in which animated works reflect and subvert real-world physics, comment on their own artifice, play with audience expectations and encapsulate filmmaking styles, Sam Higgs explores the medium's advantages and multifaceted possibilities.

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Teaching Media, primary, middle years, senior secondary, Disney, Pixar, The Polar Express, uncanny valley, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, self-awareness, audience, violence, live action, artifice, The Lego Batman Movie, Anomalisa, Deadpool, Rick and Morty, Grave of the Fireflies, BoJack Horseman, Wes Anderson, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton