By Jim Mynard
MONASH University Berwick lecturer and director of research and postgraduate studies in the Berwick School of Information, Marion Quigley has released a book ‘Women Do Animate. Interviews with 10 Australian Animators’.
Dr Quigley has also published several articles on animation and the social effects of information and communications technologies.
The book presents the story of Australian women animators a history, which is also a women’s history.
It introduces the work and views of independent women animators in Australia and the factors that have contributed to their emergence, growth and development.
In conversation with Marian Quigley they discuss their desire to maintain creative control of their work in a largely maledominated industry; the aims and nature of their work; the impact of new technologies on their practices and their struggle to gain funding and screening for short animated films.
The DVD that accompanies this book, designed and produced by Jerome Moscicki of the Berwick School of Information Technology contains the interviews with the animators and clips from their animated films.
This collection is designed to provide a valuable resource for researchers, students and specialists interested in the growth of Australian animation, film studies and women’s studies.