Episode 25 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001) (with Shaun Gunner)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001).
The Fantasy/Animation podcast takes listeners on a journey through the intersection between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Available via Apple Podcasts, Spotify and many of your favourite podcast hosting platforms!
Venturing to Middle-earth, and ably accompanied on this opening stage of their podcasting quest by Shaun Gunner, chairman of the Tolkien Society, Chris and Alex discuss the first of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings adaptations, The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). Journeying from the Shire on the way to Mount Doom, episode 25 debates Tolkien’s ability to craft believable genealogies and histories in his high fantasy realms; cartography, map-making and the geographical consistency of fictional worlds; and the film’s relationship to post-millennial Hollywood franchises via technological developments in digital visual effects.
Suggested Readings
Tanine Allison, “More than a Man in a Monkey Suit: Andy Serkis Motion Capture and Digital Realism,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 28, no. 4 (2011): 325–341.
Brian Attebery, The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irvin to Le Guin (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1980).
Tom Gunning, “Gollum and Golem: Special Effects and the Technology of Artificial Bodies,” in From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings, eds. Murray Pomerance and Ernest Mathjis (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2006), 231–248.
Tom Gunning, “Moving Away from the Index: Cinema and the Impression of Reality,” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 18, no.1 (2007): 29–52.
Kristen Whissel, “The Digital Multitude,” Cinema Journal 49, no. 4 (Summer 2010): 90–110.