What do we mean by the term "animation" when we are discussingfilm? Is it a technique? A style? A way of seeing or experiencing "aworld" that has little relation to our own lived experience of "theworld"? In Animated Worlds, contributors reveal the astonishing variety of"worlds" animation confronts us with. Essays range from close filmanalyses to phenomenological and cognitive approaches, spectatorship, performance, literary theory, and digital aesthetics. Authors include Vivian Sobchack, RichardWeihe, Thomas Lamarre, Paul Wells, and Karin Wehn.