Ryan Pierson

• Film theory
• film history
• Animation

Book

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  Pierson, Ryan. Figure and Force in Animation Aesthetics Oxford University Press, 2019. Print.

Book Review

• Pierson, Ryan. Dan Bashara, "Cartoon Vision: UPA Animation and Postwar Aesthetics" Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 2020. Print.

Forthcoming

• Pierson, Ryan. In/Focus: Animation (dossier, ed.) 2021.
• Pierson, Ryan. Postwar Animation and Modernist Criticism: The Case of Annette Michelson (to appear)
• Pierson, Ryan. Printing the Horizon: Adam Beckett's "Dear Janice" (to appear)

Invited Lectures/Presentations

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  Pierson, Ryan. "Cycle Space." Seeing Movement, Being Moved: An Exploration of the Moving Camera. University of Chicago, October 2016. 2016.

Journal Articles - Peer Reviewed

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  Pierson, Ryan. "Too Close, Not Blue: "Yellow Submarine"". New Review of Film and Television Studies 15.1 (2017): 40-47. Print.
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  Pierson, Ryan. "Whole-Screen Metamorphosis and the Imagined Camera (Notes on Perspectival Movement in Animation)". animation: an interdisciplinary journal 10.1 (2015): 6-21. Print.
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  Pierson, Ryan. "On Styles of Theorizing Animation Styles: Stanley Cavell at the Cartoon's Demise". The Velvet Light Trap, 69 (2012): 17-26. Print.
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  Pierson, Ryan. "Making Sense of Early Video Arcades: The Case of Pittsburgh, 1980-1983". Canadian Journal of Film Studies 20.2 (2011): 19-37. Print.