Sandra Annett is a Canadian film academic. She published the book Anime Fan Communities: Transcultural Flows and Frictions (2014) and is co-editor of the academic journal Mechademia. She is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Sandra Annett | |
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| Occupation | Film scholar |
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| Thesis | Animating Transcultural Communities: Animation Fandom in North America and East Asia from 1906–2010 (2011) |
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| Discipline | Film studies |
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| Institutions | Wilfrid Laurier University |
Biography edit
Sandra Annett was educated at Dalhousie University, where she got her BA in Honours English in 2004, and at Queen's University at Kingston, where she got her MA in English in 2006.[1] In 2011, she received her PhD in English and Film Studies from the University of Manitoba;[1] her thesis, titled Animating Transcultural Communities: Animation Fandom in North America and East Asia from 1906–2010, was supervised by Diana Brydon, William Lee, and Eugene P. Walz.[2] In 2011, she became part of the Wilfrid Laurier University staff, where she became an Associate Professor of Film Studies.[1] She also became their film studies program's resident specialist in digital and new media studies.[3]
As an academic, Annett specializes in both the relationship between media technology and visual audience perception and in film studies, especially in animated film and the cinema of Japan.[1] In 2014, she published the book Anime Fan Communities: Transcultural Flows and Frictions).[4] Her next book, The Flesh of Animation: Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media, which discusses the relationship between animation and interoception, will be published in April 2024.[5] She and Frenchy Lunning are the co-editors of Mechademia, an academic journal on Japanese popular culture.[6]
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References edit
- ^ a b c d "Sandra Annett". Wilfrid Laurier University. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
- ^ Sandra, Annett (2011). Animating Transcultural Communities: Animation Fandom in North America and East Asia from 1906–2010 (PhD thesis). University of Manitoba. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
- ^ "Visual arts professor visits UNG to discuss exchange opportunities and present research paper". University of North Georgia. October 9, 2017. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
- ^ Annett, Sandra (2014). Anime Fan Communities: Transcultural Flows and Frictions. doi:10.1057/9781137476104. ISBN 978-1-349-50275-2. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ "The Flesh of Animation". University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
- ^ "Editorial Team". Mechademia. September 1, 2018. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
- ^ Emmett, Neil (January 29, 2015). "Book Review: 'Anime Fan Communities' by Sandra Annett". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved January 17, 2024.
- ^ Hemmann, Kathryn (September 15, 2017). ""Anime fan communities: Transcultural flows and frictions," by Sandra Annett". Transformative Works and Cultures. 25. doi:10.3983/twc.2017.01093. ISSN 1941-2258.