Students will gain a broad cross-cultural knowledge in the visual and cultural history of moving images. They will acquire a comprehensive interdisciplinary theoretical framework to critically understand animation as a cultural artifact and its historical sociocultural and technological processes and contexts. The multidisciplinary knowledge that they will gain in this course will enable them to understand animation from a broad historical perspective, inextricably linked with the humanity and its changing relationship with the world, in order to develop self-reflexivity and critical approach as animators and students of animation.