List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Coraline: A Twitchy, Witchy Girl in Stop-Motion Land Mihaela Mihailova (University of Michigan, USA) Part 1: Historical Contexts and Perspectives Chapter 1: Drawing Coraline: Illustration, Adaptation, and Visuality Malcolm Cook (University of Southampton, UK) Chapter 2: Mixing it Up: Coraline and LAIKA's Hybrid World Miriam Harris (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) Chapter 3: Armatures in the Closet: Coraline and the History of Stop Motion Mihaela Mihailova (University of Michigan, USA) Chapter 4: The Surprising Migrations of 2 ½ D: The Background to Coraline Norman M. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on. As the first book-length academic study of this contemporary animation classic, this volume serves as an authoritative introduction and a primary reference on the film for scholars, students, practitioners, and animation fans. Following the film's recent tenth anniversary, the time is right to revisit its production history, evaluate its cultural and industry impact, and celebrate its legacy as contemporary stop-motion cinema's gifted child. Finally, it marks a pivotal point in stop-motion animation's digital turn. It complicates a seemingly straight(forward) depiction of normative family life with gestures of queer resistance. It straddles the boundary between children's entertainment and traditional 'adult' genres, such as horror and thriller. In doing so, they invite recognition – and appreciation – of the fact that Coraline occupies many liminal spaces at once. They place the film in conversation with the medium's aesthetic and technological history, broader global intellectual and political traditions, and questions of animation reception and spectatorship. Divided into three sections, this volume's chapters situate Coraline within an interconnected network of historical, industrial, discursive, theoretical, and cultural contexts. More broadly, it celebrates stop motion as a unique and enduring artform while embracing its capacity to evolve in response to cultural, political, and technological changes, as well as shifting critical and audience demands.
This open access collection brings together an international group of practitioners and scholars to examine Coraline's place in animation history and culture, dissect its politics, and unpack its role in the technological and aesthetic development of its medium. Heralding a revival in global interest in stop-motion animation, the film is both an international cultural phenomenon and a breakthrough moment in the technological evolution of the craft. Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009) is stop-motion studio LAIKA's feature-length debut based on the popular children's novel by British author Neil Gaiman.
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