This book is from Thomas Lamarre. I first knew about this book was when I read a blog about animation, and out of curiosity, I downloaded the digital version of the book and started reading and taking some reading notes.

In the prepage Thomas said This book presents a theory of animation that is unabashedly centered on Japanese animation, which are commonly particularized and grouped under the loose heading “anime” or even“Japanimation.”At the same time, this book is about “how to read anime.” In fact, it was the difficulties that he confronted trying to read anime that led him in the direction of animation theory.

conclusion of my understanding

"The Animation Machine" provides theoretical support for us to observe the diversity of animation from the moving images. It suggests that we can start from the way of image compositing to reinterpret the reason why animations have the same origin and different streams, and to observe whether the guidance of animation works on the potential of moving images is more like animation or like film.