"A thrilling read-one of the most exuberant, brilliant books I’ve come across in a very long time. It should be read by anyone working in the history of animation, by scholars in film studies and for many outside those fields with their own critical eyestrain upon visual studies, sensation, and the role of the scholar in stating their position within activist research." - Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television "This work, Frame by Frame, as it is, is a masterwork of ingenuity that pulls together studies on technics, labor, and aesthetics. A great mind and writer, Frank could and should have continued to write, producing work as virtuosic as this particular volume but on an industrial scale to match her favorite animators." - Cineaste Her hideously premature death highlights the book’s only retroactive flaw: that it is too short that it offers itself only as the first volume in a great, ongoing work spanning a lifetime. It is hard not to fantasize about future volumes of Frankian prose while reading Frame by Frame, so commanding and captivating a stylist and a critical imagination is she. wry, effortless, sublime work of prose . Frank impressively ties together the imaginative pleasures of close analysis to rethink the trajectory of animation as more than a 'history of drudgery.'" - Film Comment "Frank moves with a shocking assuredness of purpose through all possible configurations of a process she has sharpened and honed for purpose. All hail Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons." - Artforum "After reading Frame by Frame, it's difficult to naively or passively watch a classic-era cartoon again, considering the erased labor that was alienated and mechanized, yet individuated-ultimately producing an artwork. thesis nudges the world of cinema studies off its axis. Reviews "It's not every day that a posthumously published Ph.D.
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