Editorial Animation at the Cutting Edge by Yuanyuan Chen and Laura Rascaroli (Issue Editors) https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.8.00 Articles Chairy Tales: Object and Materiality in Animation by Paul Wells https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.8.01 To Infinity and Back Again: Hand-drawn Aesthetic and Affection for the Past in Pixar's Pioneering Animation by Helen Haswell https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.8.02 When Imaginary Cartoon Worlds Get the "Documentary Look": Understanding Mockumentary Through Its Animated Variant by Cristina Formenti https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.8.03 Tango for a Dream: Narrative Liminality and Musical Sensuality in Richard Linklater's Waking Life by Danijela Kulezic-Wilson https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.8.04 Rolling Amnesia and the Omnivorous Now: Jeff Scher's You Won't Remember This Trilogy (2007–2011) by Lilly Husbands https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.8.05 Book Reviews Film, Art, New Media: Museum Without Walls?, edited by Angela Dalle Vacche Reviewed by Jill Murphy https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.8.06 Animated Documentary, by Annabelle Honess Roe Reviewed by Susan Danta https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha8.07 Book Reviews Editor: Jessica Shine Reports Chris Marker: A Grin Without a Cat Whitechapel Gallery, London, 16 April–22 June 2014 Report by Laura Busetta https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.8.08 The 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Karlovy Vary, 4–12 July 2014 Report by Natascha Drubek https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.8.09 Rendering (the) Visible II: Figure Georgia State University, 6–8 February 2014 Report by Laurel Ahnert and Justin Horton https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.8.10 Reports Editor: Nicholas O'Riordan Tweet