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Papers

(The median citation count of Animation-An Interdisciplinary Journal is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Music, Memory and Narrative: The Art of Telling in Tale of Tales	13
Cross-species Perception and Ecological Disposition in Animation	4
Disney’s Wagner Aesthetic: Music Drama in Pursuit of the Total Artwork	4
Book review: From Mouse Deer to Mouse: 70 Years of Malaysian Animation	4
Dematerialization and Digital Ink-Painting Aesthetics in Contemporary Chinese Animation: Redefining the ‘National Style’ in Deep Sea (2023)	3
From Ancient Zhiguai Tales to Contemporary Animation: A Study of Visual Rhetoric in ‘Yao-Chinese Folktales’ (2023)	3
‘One Out of Harmony with Her Own Time’: Lotte Reiniger, Anachronism and Doing Animation History through Film Society Reconstruction	3
Editorial	3
Book review: The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History	2
Scotland’s History of Animation: An Exploratory Account of the Key Figures and Influential Events	2
Plasmatic and Metamorphic Movement: The Materiality of the Moving Idea	2
Achronologies, Materiality and Mechanics of Time in Optical Moving Image Systems	2
Animating Goethe	2
The Reconstructed History of the Foundation of the Chinese School of Animation: A Textual Criticism on the ‘Crow Incident’	1
Editorial	1
‘The Blackest Disney Movie of All Time!’: A Goofy Movie and the Production of ‘Film Blackness’	1
Editorial	1
Bracing the Opportunities in the Nigerian Animation Industry: Unlocking the Challenging Phase	1
Book review: Narodziny i rozkwit Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Mangowej (The Birth and Flowering of the Polish Manga Republic)	1
Imaginative Animated Non-Fiction: Educating Adults about Child Soldiers	1
Animated Film and Socialist Realism in Poland, 1949–1955	1
Editorial	1
Reanimating the Master Narrative: How They Shall Not Grow Old Curates the Perception of Common Truth through CGI Animation	1
Discovering Animation Manuals: Their Place and Role in the History of Animation	1
Animating for Interactivity: The Walk Cycles of Prince of Persia (1989) and Ninja Gaiden (1988)	1

Book review: Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation, 1940s–1970s DuDaisy Yan, Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation, 1940s–1970s. Honolulu: Unive	1
Raising Children for the Communist Party: The Shanghai Animation Film Studio’s Infantilized Style (1950s–1980s)	0
Editorial	0
Book review: 六个面和一个回声——中国美术电影叙事研究 (Six Dimensions and an Echo: Narration in the Chinese Animated Film)	0
The Animation of Gamers and the Gamers as Animators in Sierra On-Line’s Adventure Games	0
An Age of Splendour for Contemporary Spanish Animation: Evolution of an Industry Over the Last Four Decades	0
Editorial	0
Book review: Aardman Animations: Beyond Stop-Motion	0
Posthumanism in Recently Animated Adaptations of Chinese Literary Classics	0
Book review: Metalepsis in Animation: Paradoxical Transgressions of Ontological Levels	0
Animation of Experiment: The Science Education Film and Useful Animation in China	0
Contemporizing the National Style in Chinese Animation: The Case of Nezha (2019)	0
Editorial	0
Introduction to the Special Issue: New Perspectives on Animation Historiography	0
Quentin Tarantino’s Cartoon Violence	0
‘Boys and girls of every age. Wouldn’t you like to see something strange?’ Uncanniness and The Nightmare Before Christmas	0
Laborious Aesthetics: Visible and Invisible Labor in the Spider-Verse franchise	0
Breaking The Stack: Understanding Videogame Animation through Tool-Assisted Speedruns	0
Editorial	0
Editorial	0
Showing How They Made Them Move: Early Making-of Documentaries on the Production of Animated Films	0
The Kraft of Labour, Labour as Craft: Hayao Miyazaki’s Images of Work	0
The Discourse of Independent Animation in the Contemporary Chinese Context	0
The Phenomenology of Animation	0
Book review: Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation	0
Walt’s Art History: Late Style, Digital Aesthetics and the ‘Disney Baroque’	0
Modernism and Discourses on Animation in 1930s Portugal: The Case of José de Almada Negreiros	0
Approaching Reflexivity in Animated Documentary through a Spatial Taxonomy: An Analysis of Polonia (2023)	0
Between Art and Propaganda: The Rise of Polish Animation 1946–1956	0
Chained Animation: Collaborative Forms of Filmmaking in Education	0
The Ever-Expanding Scope of Animation Historiography: A Discussion of Interdisciplinary Approaches and Methods	0
Book review: Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation	0
Posthumous Portraits in Motion: Experimental Animation, Metamorphosis and Reflections on Mortality	0
Editorial	0
Reanimating the History and the Forgotten Characteristics of the Zoetrope	0
Towards a Conceptual Framework for Abstracted Animation Derived from Motion Captured Movements	0
Experiments in Hybrid Documentary and Indigenous Model Animation	0
Para-animation in Practice and Theory: The Animateur, the Embodied Gesture and Enchantment	0
‘I don’t have a skull… Or bones’: Minor Characters in Disney Animation	0
Book review: Batman: The Animated Series	0
Editorial	0
Book review: Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture	0
Virtual Production and the Transformation of Cameras Mechanical, Virtual, and Actual	0
A Study of the Influence of Music on Audiences’ Cognition of Animation	0
Onomatopoeia, Sound Effects and Humour in Japanese Anime and US Animation Films and Television	0
Implausible Possibility: Freedom and Realism in Live-Action/Animated Gag Comedies	0
Narrating Fabrics: Nostalgia in Animated Puppets’ Skin	0
A Modular Genre? Problems in the Reception of the Post-Miyazaki ‘Ghibli Film’	0
Grains of Sound: Visual and Sonic Textures in Sand or Peter and the Wolf	0
Hanna-Barbera’s Cacophony: Sound Effects and the Production of Movement	0

A View of the Definition, Origination and Development of the Term ‘Chinese School of Animation’	0
The Demon Child and His Modern Fate: Reconstructing the Nezha Myth in Animated Fabulation	0
Book review: Coraline: A Closer Look at Studio LAIKA’s Stop-Motion Witchcraft	0
From ‘Trucfilm’ to ‘Animatiefilm’: How the Emergence of Animation as a New Artistic Form Is Reflected in Dutch Terminology	0
Cosmic Zoom, Powers of Ten and the Contested Politics of Sense	0
Far from Houdini: The ‘Magic’ of the VFX Breakdown	0
Exploring the Viewer’s Role in Narrative-Based Animated Virtual Reality Experiences: Strategies for Role Activation and Immersive Storytelling	0
Corrigendum to Editorial	0
The Classical Animated Documentary and Its Contemporary Evolution	0
The ‘Skills Gap’ in the Animation/VFX Industry in Scotland	0
Useful Animation: Iconography, Infrastructure and Impact	0