Anatomy of a puppet

The history of puppets happens to be the one of human evolution, because puppets have inhabited human religious rites, technological experiments, artistic purposes and have been used as entertainment tools. This volume focuses on a specific typology of puppets, the animated ones, used even today as protagonists of stop-motion films. By engaging an interdisciplinary analysis of animated puppets' manufacturing processes, this book places a challenge: it merges design and film studies' methods of analysis and applies criteria of material examination of design objects to investigate puppets' material aspects.