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Episode 70 - Space Jam (Joe Pytka, 1996) (with Paul Wells)

Chris and Alex take to the basketball court for a sports-themed instalment of the podcast by looking at Space Jam (Joe Pytka, 1996), the part-animated, part-Michael Jordan sports comedy that has lots to say about the spectacle of stylistic hybridity, animation’s longstanding relationship to sport, and nostalgia via its many callbacks to Golden Age Hollywood cartooning all through the lens of NBA basketball. Joining them for Episode 70 is Professor Paul Wells, who is Director of the Animation Academy at Loughborough University, as well as being an internationally established scholar, screenwriter and director, working across and within both academia and industry contexts.

PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantMarch 29, 2021AMERICA, HYBRIDITY, BIOGRAPHY, SPORT, CULTURE, REPRESENTATION, RACEComment

Episode 52 - Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi, 2007)

For the first in a special series of listener selections, Episode 52 has Chris and Alex get to grips with Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi, 2007), taking inspiration from social media suggestions that were submitted around the broader theme of diversity and inclusion. Adapted from Marjane Satrapi’s own autobiographical graphic novels Persepolis and Persepolis 2 (originally published in November 2000), Persepolis provides a stark - and often humorous - depiction of national trauma told through Marji’s own experience as she navigates the Iranian Revolution and overthrow of the Shah regime and Pahlavi dynasty; is exiled to Austria, before returning to Iran where she marries (and divorces); and climaxes with her arrival into France.

PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantJuly 20, 2020COMICS, ADAPTATION, ADULT, BIOGRAPHY, SUBJECTIVITYComment