A new language of truth: the role of animation in a fast changing world

Abstract

Nea Ehrlich’s Animating Truth: Documentary and Visual Culture in the 21st Century brings together her research into the relationship of animation to contemporary technoculture, and the ways in which this culture is changing the nature of what we understand as the ‘documentary’. This book brings animated documentary scholarship firmly into the contemporary media landscape. By beginning to develop new conceptual tools with which to discuss and analyse new media forms, Ehrlich has created a helpful book that breathes fresh ideas into animated documentary scholarship.

Keywords

• Animated documentary
• Technoculture
• New media
• Gaming