Animation: A World History

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This history is a linear narrative, chronologically structured in ages and, furthermore, divided up into nations and authors – a traditional approach.

There were other, newer options.

Worth taking into consideration were, for instance: a history of the cross-pollination between animation and society or a history of transnational market networks – namely, the American 1910s until today, the 1945–1991 in Russia, and the Japanese 1960s until today. Counterfactual history could have been a promising option, too: For instance, what would have happened to the art, craft, and industry if no theatre had decided to screen Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie in 1928?

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