Episode 148 - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Part 2 (with Nathalie Dupont)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson, 2005).
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Episode 148 concludes Fantasy/Animation’s two-part special focusing on C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia book series with this examination of the 2005 big-screen adaptation The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson, 2005), with special guest Dr Nathalie Dupont. Nathalie is Associate Professor in American Studies at the Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale (ULCO) in France, and is the author of Between Hollywood and Godlywood: The Case of Walden Media (Peter Lang, 2015), which focuses on the history of Walden Media - a unique American company financed by a conservative Christian and a producer of The Chronicles of Narnia big screen franchise. Topics in this instalment include the history of Walden Media and industrial definitions of ‘Godlywood’; the importance of Narnia’s wartime context and the influence of its evacuation narrative on the other-wordly drama of its hide-and-seek fantasy; links between Andrew Adamson’s adaptation and the post-Harry Potter and post-Lord of the Rings climate of contemporary Hollywood; and Narnia’s situating of children within the film’s complex set of relationships, arguments, and tensions.
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Suggested Readings
Code, John Andrew. 2007. “The Lion, the Witch and the Picture Show: Distinguishing C. S. Lewis’s Classic Novel from Its Newest Screen Adaptation.” The Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society, 31, no. 1: 7–16.
Dupont, Nathalie. 2015. Between Hollywood and Godlywood: The Case of Walden Media. Oxford: Peter Lang.
Mills, Alice. 2007. “Self‐Subversion in Andrew Adamson’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” In Considering Fantasy: Ethical, Didactic and Therapeutic Aspects of Fantasy in Literature and Film, eds. Justyna Deszcz‐Tryhubczak and Marek Oziewicz, 239-247. Wrocław: Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT.
Stoner, Megan. 2007. “The Lion, the Witch, and the War Scenes: How Narnia Went from Allegory to Action Flick.” In Fantasy Fiction into Film: Essays, eds. Leslie Stratyner and James R. Keller, 73-79. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers.