Alan Cholodenko

Alan Robert Cholodenko is an American-Australian scholar, film and animation theorist. His most recognized work are two of the earliest publications in the field of animation studies, namely ''The Illusion of Life: Essays on Animation,'' published in 1991, and ''The Illusion of Life II: More Essays on Animation,'' published in 2007. His work in the field was reviewed by animation and film scholars Richard Leskosky and Vivian Sobchack. Cholodenko's work has been featured in such publications as the ''International Journal of Baudrillard Studies'' and ''Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal'', as well as in the anthologies ''Animating Film Theory;'' ''Erasure: The Spectre of Cultural Memory;'' and ''Animation: Critical and Primary Sources''.

Throughout his career, Cholodenko has been proposing a theory of animation conjoining animation theory with film theory and both with 'poststructuralist' and 'postmodernist' French thought, especially inspired by the work of Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard. Taking animation, animation studies and animation theory into the world of such thought since 1991, Cholodenko helped to elaborate a theoretical 'base' for the constituting of a 'discipline' of animation studies, postulating animation as 'discipline' of all 'disciplines'. Provided by Wikipedia