Introduction / Suzanne Buchan -- The joyous reception: animated worlds and the romantic imagination / Rachel Kearney -- The animated spectator: watching the Quay Brothers' 'worlds' / Suzanne Buchan -- The strings of the marionette / Richard Weihe -- Gesturing toward Olympia / Heather Crow -- Literary Len: Trade Tattoo and Len Lye's link with the literary avant-garde / Miriam Harris -- Literary theory, animation and the 'subjective correlative': defining the narrative 'world' in Brit-lit animation / Paul Wells -- Animated fathers: representations of masculinity in The Simpsons and King of the hill / Suzanne Williams-Rautiola -- Animated interactions: animated aesthetics and the world of the 'interactive' documentary / Paul Ward -- New media worlds / Thomas Lamarre -- Style, consistancy and plausibility in the Fable gameworld / David Surman -- Final fantasies: computer graphic animation and the [dis]illusion of life / Vivian Sobchack -- An unrecognized treasure chest: the internet as animation archive / Karin Wehn.