Caroline Ruddell is Senior Lecturer and programme lead in Film and TV Studies and Film Production at Brunel University, London, UK. She has published widely on animation and the representation of identity onscreen. Caroline is currently researching craft-based animation. She is Associate Editor for the Sage publication animation: an interdisciplinary journal and series co-editor for Palgrave Animation.

Paul Ward is Professor of Animation Studies at the Arts University Bournemouth, UK. He is the author of Documentary: The Margins of Reality (2005) and a range of journal articles, published in animation: an interdisciplinary journal, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television and Animation Journal. He is the series co-editor for Palgrave Animation.

Constitutes the first book-length study to interrogate the value of craft within the context of animation production

Challenges the historical argument around how "craft" is perceived as inferior to "art"

Includes a chapter-length interview with animator Eric Dyer, who discusses the challenges and excitements of making animation

1. Introduction, Caroline Ruddell and Paul Ward.- 2. Made by Hand, Birgitta Hosea.- 3. Craft as Critique in Experimental Animation, Lilly Husbands.- 4. Lotte Reiniger: The Crafty Animator and Cultural Value, Katharina Boeckenhoff and Caroline Ruddell.- 5. Autobiography and Authenticity in Stop-Motion Animation, Carla MacKinnon.- 6. Handmade Aesthetics in Animation for Adults and Children, Ewan Kirkland.- 7. In good hands? Indexes and interfaces in A Computer Animated Hand (Ed Catmull & Frederic Parke, 1972), Christopher Holliday.- 8. Crafted Wonder: The Puppet's Place within Popular Special Effects Reception, Alexander Sergeant.- 9. Q&A with Eric Dyer, Caroline Ruddell and Paul Ward.