Norman McLaren Revisited

本项目将通过对二十世纪中期加拿大电影制作基础设施和国家建设文化项目的深入分析，研究苏格兰裔加拿大实验动画师诺曼·麦克拉伦的作品。麦克拉伦是一个复杂的人物，被夹在矛盾的政治、审美和社会条件之间，本项目将探讨使麦克拉伦和他的同时代人能够制作出非凡的电影作品的共谋和诡计的策略。这项研究将借鉴在多伦多和蒙特利尔进行的新的档案研究，形成在加拿大交付的现场、基于事件的输出。在返回英国，这将是随后的一段时间的研究在苏格兰的档案，以期后来发展的期刊文章。

AHRC : Marcus Jack : AH/L503915This project will examine the work of Scottish-Canadian experimental animator Norman McLaren through close analysis of the film production infrastructures and cultural programme of nation-building in Canada in the mid-twentieth century. Understanding McLaren as a complex figure caught between contradictory political, aesthetic and social conditions, this project will look at the strategies of complicity and subterfuge which enabled McLaren and his contemporaries to produce a remarkable body of film work against the odds. This research will draw upon new archival research undertaken in Toronto and Montreal to form a live, event-based output delivered in Canada. On return to the UK, this will be followed by a period of research in Scottish archives with a view to the later development of a journal article.