Dr Alan Cholodenko

Research Interests

• The articulation of film theory with animation theory and both with contemporary French thought.

Awards

• 2010 McLaren-Lambart Award for Best Scholarly Article on Animation from the International Society for Animation Studies for his article 'The Animation of Cinema', The Semiotic Review of Books, vol. 18, no. 2, 2008.

Publications

• [Journal Article] 2010 ‘The “ABCs” of B, or: To Be and Not to Be B’, Film-Philosophy, vol. 14, no. 2.
• [Entry] 2010 for ‘Photography’ in The Baudrillard Dictionary, (ed) R Smith, Edinburgh University Press and Columbia University Press.
• [Interview] 2010 ‘Limiting Cholodenko’, paulacallus.blogspot.com/, 5 February.
• [Journal Article] 2009 (The) Death (of) the Animator, or: The Felicity of Felix’, Part I, in Animated Dialogues, 2007, on the website of Animation Studies.
• [Journal Article] Cholodenko, A, and A N Shapiro (2009), ‘The Car of the Future’, Noema: Technologie & Società, Ideas, Section 55, July (www.noemalab.org/sections/ideas.php)
• 2009 ‘An Interview with Alan Cholodenko’, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, July.
• [Journal Article] 2009 ‘Jean Rouch’s Les Maîtres Fous: Documentary of Seduction, Seduction of Documentary’, in Three Documentary Filmmakers, (ed) W Rothman, SUNY Press, Albany, NY.
• [Journal Article] 2009 ‘Animation (Theory) as the Poematic: A Reply to the Cognitivists’, Animation Studies, vol. 4.
• [Journal Article] 2008 ‘The Animation of Cinema’, The Semiotic Review of Books, vol. 18, no. 2.
• [Refereed Conference Paper] 2009 ‘(The) Death (of) the Animator, or: The Felicity of Felix’, Part 1: ‘Kingdom of Shadows’, in Animated Dialogues, 2007, the proceedings of the conference at Monash University 17-18 June, 2007, published in Animation Studies. (on the web)
• [Chapter] 2009 'Jean Rouch's Les Maîtres Fous: Documentary of Seduction, Seduction of Documentary', in Three Documentary Filmmakers, ed. William Rothman, State University of New York Press, Albany, New York.
• [Journal Article] 2009 'Animation (Theory) as the Poematic: A Reply to the Cognitivists', Animation Studies, vol. 4. (on the web)
• [Journal Interview] 2009 ‘An Interview with Alan Cholodenko’, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, July. (on the web)
• [Journal Article] 2008 ‘The Spectre in the Screen’, Animation Studies, vol. 3. (on the web)
• [Journal Article] 2008 ‘The Animation of Cinema’, The Semiotic Review of
  Books, vol. 18, no. 2.
• [Journal Interview] 2008 ‘Deconstruction is the Process of the World’, interviewed by Alexandr Dyakov, Editor, Khora, vol. 2, published in Russian. (on the web and in paper)
• [Journal Article] 2008 ‘The Crypt, the Haunted House, of Cinema’, Khora, vol. 2. Published in Russian as ‘Крипт, дом с приведениями кино’. (on the web and in paper)
• [Essay Reprint] 2008 ‘Still Photography?’, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, January. (on the web)
• [Journal Article] 2007 ‘(The) Death (of) the Animator, or The Felicity of Felix’, Part II, Animation Studies, vol. 2. (on the web)
• [Chapter] 2007 ‘Jean Rouch’s Les Maîtres Fous: Documentary of Seduction, Seduction of Documentary’, in Jean Rouch: A Celebration of Life and Film, ed. William Rothman, Schena Editore, Fasano, Italy.
• [Journal Article] 2007 ‘De la photographie immobile? (Still Photography?)’, CinémAnimationS, a special issue on animation of CinémAction, no. 123, ed. Pierre Floquet.
• [Chapter] 2007 ‘Speculations on the Animatic Automaton’, The Illusion of Life 2: More Essays on Animation, ed. Alan Cholodenko, Power Publications, Sydney.
• [Edited] 2007 The Illusion of Life 2: More Essays on Animation, ed. Alan Cholodenko, Power Publications, Sydney.
• [Journal Article] 2006 ‘The Nutty Universe of Animation, the “Discipline” of All “Disciplines”, And That’s Not All, Folks!’, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, January. (on the web)
• [Journal Article], 2005 ‘Still Photography?’, Afterimage, vol. 32, no. 5, March/April.
• [Essay reprint] 2005 '"OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR": The Virtual Reality of Jurassic Park and Jean Baudrillard', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, January. (on the web)
• [Journal Article] 2004 '"The Borders of Our Lives": Frederick Wiseman, Jean Baudrillard, and The Question of The Documentary', International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, vol. 1, no. 2, January. (on the web)
• [Journal Article] 2004 'The Crypt, The Haunted House, of Cinema', Cultural Studies Review, vol. 10, no. 2, September.
• [Chapter] 2003 'Apocalyptic Animation: In the Wake of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Godzilla and Baudrillard', Baudrillard West of the Dateline, eds. Victoria Grace, Heather Worth and Laurence Simmons, Dunmore Press, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
• [Chapter] 2000 'The Logic of Delirium, or The Fatal Strategies of Antonin Artaud and Jean Baudrillard', 100 YEARS OF CRUELTY: Essays on Artaud, ed. Edward Scheer, Power Publications, Sydney.
• [Journal Article] 2000 'The Illusion of The Beginning: A Theory of Drawing and Animation', Afterimage, vol. 28, no. 1, July/August.
• [Chapter] 1997 '"OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR": The Virtual Reality of Jurassic Park and Jean Baudrillard', Jean Baudrillard, Art and Artefact, ed. Nicholas Zurbrugg, Sage Publications, London, in association with the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
• [Edited] 1996 Samuel Weber, Mass Mediauras: Form, Technics, Media, ed. Alan Cholodenko, Power Publications, Sydney, and Stanford University Press.
• [Chapter] 1991, ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit, or The Framing of Animation’, THE ILLUSION OF LIFE: Essays on Animation, ed. Alan Cholodenko (Sydney: Power Publications in association with the Australian Film Commission)
• [Edited] 1991, THE ILLUSION OF LIFE: Essays on Animation, ed. Alan Cholodenko (Sydney: Power Publications in association with the Australian Film Commission)