Emma Jones-Gill
Contact
- Email: emma.jones-gill@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Kingston School of Art, Knights Park
- Faculty: Kingston School of Art
- School: School of Arts
Research project: Sound, Stop-Motion and the Uncanny: An exploration into the function of film audio and how it creates unease in stop-motion animation
Abstract
A thesis exploring the functions of film sound in stop-motion animation, and its relationship with the uncanny. This thesis will look at stop-motion animation from different production companies, both mainstream and independently created, as well as stop-motion within live-action films, such as the Ray Harryhausen stop-motion creatures from the 50s-80s. Similar to the way sound functions in live-action films, sound in stop-motion animation is used to animate characters, enrich the environment, and even build tension, such as in the horror genre. The uncanny, though closed linked to the horror genre, is about the familiar feeling unfamiliar, which within stop-motion brings into question autonomy and believability of characters movements and sounds, and begins to bridge the gap between stop-motion, sound and the uncanny.
- Research degree: PhD
- Title of project: Sound, Stop-Motion and the Uncanny: An exploration into the function of film audio and how it creates unease in stop-motion animation
- Research supervisor: Dr Corin Depper
- Other research supervisor: Dr Maggie Gray
Biography
Throughout my academic journey I have been interested in Film Studies, which was encourged through optional modules during my BA, and core modules during my MA.Whilst studying for my MA, I wrote about queer cinema, the relationship between mainstream and experimental cinema, Marvel's multiverse through the lens of Jacques Derrida, the home being a source of horror within the family unit, the adaptation of fairytales from literature to Disney films for my dissertation, and begun to explore the relationship between a dolls character design and sound within stop-motion animation, which is what led to the original concept for my PhD.
Areas of research interest
- Stop-Motion Animation
- Film Sound
- The Uncanny
- Animation
Qualifications
- MA in Film Studies, Kingston University
- Level 3 in Teaching and Education, Basingstoke College of Technology
- BA in Creative and Professional Writing, University of Derby