ERC funds new study of animated film

A university lecturer has been awarded a grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to study the development of animated films.

Dr Kristian Moen, a lecturer in Screen Studies in the Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television at the University of Bristol, was awarded the Starting Grant of €500,000.

Moen’s project will examine how changing notions of animated film emerged during the period of its consolidation, from the introduction of animated films in cinema programmes in the mid-1910s to the surge in interest in animation and the global prominence of Walt Disney Studios in the 1930s.

The funding runs for four years and begins in January 2014.