Sandra Annett is a Canadian film academic. She is author of '' Anime Fan Communities: Transcultural Flows and Frictions'' (2014) and '' The Flesh of Animation: Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media'' (2024), as well as co-editor of the academic journal ''

Mechademia ''Mechademia: Second Arc'' is a biannual (formerly annual) peer-reviewed academic journal in English about Japanese popular culture products and fan practices. It is published by the University of Minnesota Press and the editor-in-chief is Fr ...

''. She is Associate Professor of Film Studies at

Wilfrid Laurier University Wilfrid Laurier University (commonly referred to as WLU or simply Laurier) is a Public university, public university in Ontario, Canada, with campuses in Waterloo, Ontario, Waterloo, Brantford, Ontario, Brantford and Milton, Ontario, Milton. The ...

Biography

Sandra Annett was educated at

Dalhousie University Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a large public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada, with three campuses in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax, a fourth in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia, Bible Hill, and a second medical school campus ...

, where she got her BA in Honours English in 2004, and at

Queen's University at Kingston Queen's University at Kingston, commonly known as Queen's University or simply Queen's, is a public university, public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Queen's holds more than of land throughout Ontario and ...

, where she got her MA in English in 2006. In 2011, she received her PhD in English and Film Studies from the

University of Manitoba The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a public research university in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Founded in 1877, it is the first university of Western Canada. Both by total student enrolment and campus area, the University of ...

; her thesis, titled ''Animating Transcultural Communities: Animation Fandom in North America and East Asia from 1906–2010'', was supervised by Diana Brydon, William Lee, and Eugene P. Walz. In 2011, she became part of the

staff, where she became an Associate Professor of Film Studies. She also became their film studies program's resident specialist in digital and new media studies. As an academic, Annett specializes in both the relationship between media technology and visual audience perception and in film studies, especially in

animated film Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby still images are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Animati ...

and the

cinema of Japan The , also known domestically as , has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2022, it was the Film industry#Statistics, fourth largest by number of feature films p ...

. In 2014, she published the book '' Anime Fan Communities: Transcultural Flows and Frictions''. Her next book, '' The Flesh of Animation: Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media'', which discusses the relationship between animation and

interoception Interoception is the collection of Sense#Other internal sensations and perceptions, senses providing information to the organism about the internal state of the body. This can be both conscious and subconscious. It encompasses the brain's process ...

, was published in April 2024. She and

Frenchy Lunning Nancy Erroll French Lunning is an American academic who specializes in anime. She is a Professor Emeritus in Liberal Arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Biography Nancy Erroll French Lunning was born to Patricia McGrew and Willia ...

are the co-editors of ''

'', an academic journal on

Japanese popular culture Japanese popular culture includes Cinema of Japan, Japanese cinema, Japanese cuisine, cuisine, Television in Japan, television programs, anime, manga, Video gaming in Japan, video games, Music of Japan, music, and doujinshi, all of which retain ol ...

Publications

*'' Anime Fan Communities: Transcultural Flows and Frictions'' (2014) *'' The Flesh of Animation: Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media'' (2024)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Annett, Sandra Living people Film theorists Historians of animation Anime and manga critics Canadian Japanologists Canadian women academics Canadian academic journal editors Dalhousie University alumni Queen's University at Kingston alumni University of Manitoba alumni Academic staff of Wilfrid Laurier University Year of birth missing (living people)