The Crafty Animator Handmade, Craft-based Animation and Cultural Value

Caroline Ruddell
is Senior Lecturer and programme lead in Film and TV Studies and Film Production at Brunel University, London, UK. She has published widely on animation and the representation of identity onscreen. Caroline is currently researching craft-based animation. She is Associate Editor for the Sage publication
animation: an interdisciplinary journal
and series co-editor for
Palgrave Animation
.

Paul Ward
is Professor of Animation Studies at the Arts University Bournemouth, UK. He is the author of
Documentary: The Margins of Reality
(2005) and a range of journal articles, published in
animation: an interdisciplinary journal
,
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
and
Animation Journal
. He is the series co-editor for
Palgrave Animation
.