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English 3504 Animating Literature:  Moving from Fiction to Animated Film

In Animation and America, Paul Wells draws on Gene Youngblood's concept of "expanded cinema" and suggests, "art-works transcend ... paradigm[s] by using their aesthetic specificity to create symbolic interpretations of more complex and contradictory aspects of human experience." This section of 3504 will explore the boundaries of fiction, graphic novels, animation, and adaptation as interpretive "artworks" in multiple genres of film and literature. (Group 5)