Author: Flood, William O'Neal

Publication Year: 1981

Media Type: Report

Summary:

Abstract:

This paper is a description and application of animation, which is both an ethic and a process of community cultural development. The aim of animation is to build vital human communities through cultural participation. Animation is shown in its original European context and American usage. American usage is illustrated by American community practices of community arts and empowerment.

Four case summaries of projects in the having the qualities of animation are presented. Cases illustrate animation and provide a base for broader discussion of its relevance to communities and individuals. The contrast is drawn between animation and U.S. domestic community development.

The American community cultural worker is defined, and discussed from perspectives of professional ethics and community practice. Cultural policy is shown as important to animation; the lack of such policy is viewed as a dilemma for the advocate of animation. (iii)

CONTENTS
Chapter I. Introduction:

Statement of problem and objectives.
Methodology.

Chapter II. Animation and the cultural domain:

Beginnings of animation.
Toward an operational definition of animation.
The use of culture.
Back to an operational definition of animation.
A typology of animation.
Other uses of animation.
Animation and its ethical dimension.

Chapter III. Animation and the community:

Case #1. Community learning centers.
Case #2. Highlander Center.
Case #3. Life not death in Venice.
Case #4. Older Montanas in Boom and Bust communities.
Differences between cases and traditional community development.

Chapter IV. Animation in U.S. practice:

Empowerment.
Adult education in the , Empowerment applied.
Community arts: The New Deal, Community arts applied.
Cultural pluralism.
Summary.

Chapter V. Animation and its relevance:

Regaining a sense of community.
A capacity-building alternative to problem-solving.
Personal and social significance to individuals, the elderly.

Chapter VI. Animation, the community cultural worker and cultural policy.

The American cultural worker.
Ethics and practice.
Cultural policy.

Chapter VII. Conclusion.

References.
Appendix: Literature on animation.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Community Development