ABSTRACT

Throughout this book, we have studied how identity politics move through animation and how connections are made, specifically with regard to self, difference, gender and the body. The fluidity of identity complements the malleability of animation. Characters transcend gender binaries and boundaries, self and other form an uneasy connection, and the body moulds itself around the able and the disabled to offer notions of becoming – animation reflects identity politics in transition and challenges ideas of self.