Archive Episode - The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, 1926) (with Caroline Ruddell - Live @ Cinema Museum)

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, 1926).

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!

The latest archive instalment takes Chris and Alex back to January 2020, and their first live episode recorded in front of an audience of animated fantasy fans in attendance at the Fantasy/Animation screening series in collaboration with the Cinema Museum in Kennington, London. Joining the Q&A to discuss The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, 1926) was special guest Dr Caroline Ruddell (Brunel University London), an expert on Lotte Reiniger who has published work on the filmmaker in Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres (2018), and the recent anthology The Crafty Animator: Handmade, Craft-based Animation and Cultural Value (2019). Lots here on Reiniger’s signature style of 2D cutout animation and gendered discourses of craft and the politics of the handmade, alongside the film’s production during a specific historical moment of upheaval in 1920s Weimar Germany.

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

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Suggested Readings

  • Galt, Rosalind. Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image. Columbia: Columbia University Press.

  • Leslie, Esther. 2004. Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde. London: Verso.

  • Ruddell, Caroline. 2014. The Besieged Ego: Doppelgangers and Split Identity Onscreen. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

  • Ruddell, Caroline. 2018. “Contextualising Lotte Reiniger’s Fantasy Fairy-Tales.” Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres, eds. Christopher Holliday and Alexander Sergeant, 109-125. London and New York: Routledge.

  • Warner, Marina. 2014. Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Wells, Paul. 1998. Understanding Animation. London: Routledge.

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