Study Programmes 2015-2016
ASPE0010-1  
Animation
Duration :
30h Th
Number of credits :
Master in performing arts (120 ECTS)4
Master in performing arts (120 ECTS)4
Lecturer :
Dick Tomasovic
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the second semester
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course contents :
This course envisages some historic and theoretical questions relative to animation film. It is more particularly interested in the western cartoon movie, gives an important place to the history of the American cartoon and questions the conception of these artificial characters that are the figurines of the cartoon film.
Learning outcomes of the course :
The course contributes to the analysis of the representations of the body in the cinema. He also gives theoretical and esthetic references to the students who discover the peculiarities of the cartoon film.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
Good knowledge of the history and the esthetics of the cinema.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
A written analysis of a a cartoon film. 
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
See http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires
Recommended or required readings :
Required reading:
  • Dick Tomasovic, Le Corps en abîme. Sur la figurine et le cinéma d'animation, Pertuis, Rouge Profond, 2006.
Assessment methods and criteria :
Personal work is used as a basis for the final evaluation.
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
« I know this defies the law of gravity, but, you see, I never studied law. »
Bugs Bunny, High Diving Hare (Friz Freleng, 1949)
Contacts :
Dick Tomasovic
Dpt. Information et Communication
Théorie et pratique du spectacle
Place du XX août, 7
4000 Liège
dick.tomasovic@ulg.ac.be
00 32 4 366 32 88