Hi all ­ I¹m looking for a pedagogical tool & hoping the collective wisdom
of this crowd can help.

I¹m teaching an animation course this fall, and have decided to not
structure it as a chronological history for the first time, grounding it
more around topics, techniques, issues, specific auteurs, etc. But I¹m
thinking that I¹d like to start students with a nutshell overview of
animation history to provide a skeleton to hang everything else upon ­ I¹m
sure that any such overview will be significantly flawed in a range of ways,
but we can work in class to discover & discuss the flaws along the way.
Basically ³McCay to Pixar² in 50 pages or so (it¹s fine if it¹s
American-centric, as it is an American Studies course). I haven¹t seen any
such chronological walkthrough in any of the animation literature, so I was
thinking that there may be one published in a film history textbook (if it
breaks out by genre or treats animation apart from live-action) or a genre
handbook. Anybody know of such an essay that they could recommend?

Thanks in advance,
-Jason

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