Pub Date : 2024-02-01Epub Date: 2023-07-28DOI: 10.1007/s12070-023-04111-7
Ritu Gupta
Chronic rhino sinusitis (CRS) is a common disease. Maxillary sinusitis not cured by the medicines was addressed by the open surgical procedure namely Caldwell Luc operation. Thereafter introduction of nasal endoscopes in 1970's led to the minimally invasive surgery FESS which preserved the physiology of the nose and sinuses. In the year 2002 balloon sinuplasty was introduced in the western world and subsequently in India. Due to various logistics it was not performed and reintroduced in the year 2015 in India. It can be termed as micro minimally invasive surgery wherein anatomy as well as physiology of the nose and sinuses were preserved in cases of medically non responsive mild to moderate sinusitis. 20 cases were selected for exclusive balloon sinuplasty of maxillary sinus. Balloon sinuplasty is a relatively new procedure which can be termed as micro minimally invasive surgery addressing the CRS without the traditional forms for surgery like incision, cutting or microdebriding. The principle is causing microfractures by inflating the sinus opening and thus facilitating the drainage of the sinus contents. No immediate or late post operative complications were noted. Sinus patency 6 months later was present in 90% of the cases. Balloon sinuplasty is an excellent procedure for medically nonresponsive CRS without polyposis. The success rate is spectacular matching the FESS with almost no immediate post operative and late complication. The recurrence rate of sinusitis is low. We conclude that balloon sinuplasty is a micro invasive procedure which saves operating time, time of hospital stay of the patient and delivers excellent result with almost no complications. We hope it could be incorporated as a routine surgery for mild to moderate sinusitis not responding to medicines.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/17468477231187112
Spencer Roberts
This article develops a comparative analysis of Charles and Ray Eames’ Powers of Ten, and Eva Szasz and Robert Verrall’s Cosmic Zoom, seen through the lenses of Bergsonian and Deleuzo-Guttarian philosophy. The author claims that, despite similarities with respect to their subject matter and modes of production, there are significant stylistic differences between these films that are suggestive of divergent ontological, epistemological and political commitments. Of particular importance is the foregrounding of objectivity in the case of Powers of Ten and subjectivity in the case of Cosmic Zoom – a distinction that is reflected in their respectively quasi-indexical and expressive modes of representation. This fundamental tension similarly conditions their differently inflected approaches to time, space and measure, drawing attention to the strange intertwining of representation, abstraction and affect that is characteristic of much animated film. Ultimately, it is proposed that, in the context of Powers of Ten and Cosmic Zoom, animation’s capacities for abstraction and expression are differently distributed, resulting in a cosmopolitical opposition which can be aligned with the Deleuzo–Guattarian distinctions between major and minor language, and royal and nomadic science.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/17468477231187029
Luke Holmaas
While often unacknowledged, gags and gag comedy remain a vital part of Hollywood cinema. Following the runaway success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), an increase in the production of films combining live-action and animation has helped them become a central venue for gag comedy. However, while live-action/animation hybrids can be enormously successful, they are also extremely difficult and risky ventures, both in terms of their technical challenges and production costs. Given this, what is the rationale behind combining live-action and animation for comedy at all? As the author argues, both theoretical considerations of animation and hybrids as well as the discourse from creators of such films frame live-action/animation as particularly well suited for gag comedy due to its ability to balance the freedom of animation with the grounding realism of live-action. Films such as The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) serve to highlight the interaction between cartoonish animation and realistic live-action as well as key tensions that arise in combining the two forms. Examining the opportunities and challenges provided by these combinations helps explain why hybrid films remain a common vehicle for gag comedy today and an important subset of Hollywood comedy as a whole.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/17468477231182910
Byron Fong
This article uses the walk cycle to simultaneously place movement in video games within the history of animation, and to show how the walk cycle has been adapted for the video game medium. Dating back to the pre-cinematic toys of the 19th century, the walk cycle is an animation technique that depicts a character’s walking animation as a self-contained, reusable loop. Video games import this technique into a new context with different affordances. A comparative analysis of the video games Prince of Persia (1989) and Ninja Gaiden (1988) explores different methods of implementing the walk cycle and reveals a trade-off between verisimilitude of movement and responsiveness to user input. Prince of Persia’s walk cycle, inspired by full cel animation, foregrounds fluid movement, while Ninja Gaiden utilizes limited animation techniques to prioritize responsiveness. Thus, this article argues that interactivity becomes a site of tension between movement and responsiveness, with video games drawing on older forms of animation to negotiate this tension.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/17468477231182914
Muyang Zhuang
From the early 1950s to the mid-1990s, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) produced numerous science education films. Many utilized animated effects, such as illustrations, maps and cartoons, to promote the reception of scientific knowledge and ideological messages by audiences. Current scholarship on Chinese animation history stresses films made by the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, neglecting animation created by filmmakers in science education film studios. In this article, the author argues that the history of useful animation in science education films provides a different approach to understanding Chinese animation as the animation of experiment. Animation functioned as scenes of experiment that enabled science education films to deliver messages of knowledge; they also inspired amateur experiment with animated filmmaking and experimental animation practices in the post-socialist era. This article analyses animation for science education films, amateur animation practices and experimental works inspired by, or that benefited from, science education filmmaking. It will enrich the scholarship on Chinese animation and shed new light on the history of Chinese animation and film culture in the PRC.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/17468477231182911
Patryk Oczko
Whilst the origins of Polish animation go back to the inter-war years, its rapid and consistent development did not occur until after World War II, and was therefore influenced by and directly dependent on the socialist system. The aim of this article is to identify the nature of the links between the then prevailing ideology and the content and form of animated films that created it, and to further discuss the main trends in this respect. The late 1940s were a time of a kind of creative freedom, which came to an end with the imposition of socialist realism. Transferred from the USSR to Poland, the doctrine began to lose its momentum as early as 1953, gradually embracing modern visual solutions. The complete rejection of socialist realism came in the wake of the political thaw of 1956. These contexts meant that the role of animation evolved and so, too, did its character. Examples used in this article include selected cartoons, puppet and cut-out films made in all the production centres active at that time. They are presented according to content and form, which has made it possible to further discuss the various aspects of the subject under discussion, and to indicate its development milestones. It seems a safe assumption that animation in its modern form was born twice in Poland. Initially, as a part of intuitive pioneering experiments and, later, having gained a wealth of practical and ideological experience following the political thaw of 1956.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1163/18781527-bja10071
Suzanne H. Buchan
The use of animation in hybrid and transmedia works offers a rich complex resource and object of study for our field in that they implicate animation in other media forms, as the first two articles in this issue demonstrate. Live action in combination with animation film has been used with great success over close to a century, from the Fleischer Bros. Out of the Inkwell cartoons in the 1910s onwards to popular pre-digital features at the end of the 20th century and continuing into digital and CGI productions. These hybrid works are scrutinized in terms of a vehicle for gags and comedy by Luke Holmaas in ‘Implausible Possibility: Freedom and Realism in Live-Action/Animated Gag Comedies’. Holmaas points out how comedy is a genre that often figures in other genre films, and how it is problematized in discussions of narrative, before establishing a structure for his undertaking that aims to demonstrate how animation and live action hybrid films are effective in creating gag comedy. After an historical review of the key hybrid films, he works through relevant details of various elements of film industry technologies and production, demonstrating a tension between the two techniques – the freedom of animation and the realism of live-action – further suggesting this tension is also observable in non-hybrid films. From drawn and cel animation to CGI works, Holmaas convincingly argues why and how hybrid films are suited to gags and comedy, and what is at work with the audience watching them that supports this. He then concentrates on three feature films, applying what we have learned and providing an analysis of why the comedy works, concluding with observations on why hybrid films are and will remain to be important in the Hollywood industry. Besides their historically primary use in animated shorts, features and advertising, animated media have long been the visual interface and creative basis for a range of other types of media, from video games to developments in the experiential immersive worlds of AR and VR. In ‘Animating for Interactivity: The Walk Cycles of Prince of Persia (1989) and Ninja Gaiden (1988)’, Byron Fong focuses on a basic, essential, central element of character-based animation: the walk cycle, often the first repetitive, looped animation anyone will make. Declaring an interest in establishing its use in video games within animation history, Fong approaches this animated ‘action’ as an historical form of animation with examples reaching back to 19th-century philosophical toys. He then examines how games artists use this concept, reveals what he calls a tension between verisimilitude of movement and player control, and explores what they have to do to ameliorate the effects of interactivity and linearity of games on walk cycles. Fong undertakes close comparative analyses of his own experiences of two games, chosen in part for their stylistic affinities with full (fluidity, verisimilitude, less gamer control) and limited animation (te
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/17468477231155801
D. Feeney
Within the fields of animation, media archaeology and film, much attention is placed on the image and the viewer. This article will broaden this focus to explore the moving image as a form of time in an expanded context of animation which triangulates the device with the image and viewer. The devices discussed form part of optical image system artworks that the author has researched and developed. These devices project moving images of light and have diverse historical and opto-mechanical underpinnings. The systems present their own form of optically generated time, not of minutes and hours, but of movement and light, which the author terms time-light. The article explores how revealing the mechanism generating the moving image can establish a new ontology for the device by critically engaging the viewer in how time is constructed, mediated and experienced. Being both ‘object’ and a ‘subjective experience’, time is deeply connected to our human and post-human relationship with technology. The subjective experience of the moving image in conjunction with its decloaked device can therefore make explicit our techno–human relationship with time.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/17468477231155546
Zeke Saber
Metamorphosis is frequently cited as an inherent feature of animation, but scholars who make this claim have routinely disregarded the influence of Goethean morphology on animation practice and theory. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s initial conception of morphology, as outlined in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, has had a significant effect on our understanding of the transformative nature of animation. In this article, the author engages with the theory and practice of figures including Sergei Eisenstein, André Bazin, Alla Gadassik, Caroline Leaf and others in order to insist upon animation’s critical but hitherto unacknowledged role in an ongoing history of morphological reception. Morphology’s sensitivity to the continuous coming-into-being of form allows us to think through, in newly productive ways, the intrinsic practices, aims and intimations of animation, not to mention the sometimes vexed discourse about its place in cinema studies.
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