Hi all Iım looking for a pedagogical tool & hoping the collective wisdom of this crowd can help. Iım 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 Iım thinking that Iıd like to start students with a nutshell overview of animation history to provide a skeleton to hang everything else upon Iım 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 (itıs fine if itıs American-centric, as it is an American Studies course). I havenıt 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 -- Jason Mittell, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture Middlebury College 204 Adirondack House Middlebury, Vermont 05753 (802) 443-3435 / fax: (802) 443-5123 Homepage: http://seguecommunity.middlebury.edu/sites/jmittell Blog: http://justtv.wordpress.com ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org