标题：Laura Ivins-Hulley – The Ontology of Performance in Stop Animation
期刊名称：Animation Studies
电子版ISSN：1930-1928
出版年度：2008
卷号：3
出版社：Society for Animation Studies
关键词：Judy clubs Punch with a mallet. Jack the Pumpkin King decides to take Santa’s place one Christmas. Gumby foils the Blockheads’ plans; yet again. In each of these cases; we as the audience focus our attention on the moving figures; finding pleasure in the characters and stories. Yet; though we focus our imaginative attention upon Jack dancing through Halloweentown; we are always aware of the animator and the fact that these engrossing figures are inanimate objects. So who is the performer? When we discuss performance in an animated film; are we talking about the animated figure? The animator? Do films without anthropomorphized characters contain performances? In live action films; it is quite easy to center a discussion of cinematic performance on the actor and never feel compelled to consider the role the audience plays in co-creating the performance. I do not mean to suggest that film spectatorship is not a wide and rich field; but that very often when assessing “performance;” we specifically refer to actors and dancers. However; since the animated figure does not move itself; the nature of performance becomes more complicated. In the animated film; we must take the audience into consideration to determine how performance is constituted.
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