Archive Episode - Peppa Pig (Neville Astley & Mark Baker, 2004-) (with Richard Dyer)

Peppa Pig (Neville Astley & Mark Baker, 2004-).

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!

Chris and Alex kick off the first in a series of episodes that give listeners a chance to revisit and review some earlier podcasts, or perhaps hear one or two instalments they might have missed first time around. For this inaugural delve back into the Fantasy/Animation archive, they look back at their conversation with Professor Richard Dyer (Emeritus Professor of Film Studies, King's College London and Professorial Fellow in Film Studies, University of St Andrews) who discussed the popular British animated television series Peppa Pig (Neville Astley & Mark Baker, 2014-) way back in May 2019. In a conversation that covered everything from the work of modernist painter Henri Matisse and filmmaker Béla Tarr to the realism of Peppa Pig’s anthropomorphic character designs and its politics of niceness, this episode shows that there is more to this animated media text than just muddy puddles.

**Fantasy/Animation theme tune composed by Francisca Araujo**

**As featured on Feedspot’s 25 Best London Education Podcasts**

Suggested Readings

  • Holliday, Christopher. 2018. The Computer-Animated Film: Industry, Style and Genre. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

  • King, C. Richard, Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo, and Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo. 2010. Animating Difference: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

  • Kirkland, Ewan. 2017. Children's Media and Modernity: Film, Television and Digital Games. Oxford: Peter Lang.

  • Whissel, Kristen. 2014. Spectacular Digital Effects: CGI and Contemporary Cinema. Durham: Duke University Press.

  • Whitlark, James. 1988. Illuminated Fantasy: From Blake's Visions to Recent Graphic Fiction. London: Associated University Presses.

PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantCHILDREN, FAMILY, TELEVISION, BRITISH, ANIMALS, ANIMATIONComment