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May 2018
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- May 24, 2018 What is Fantasy/Animation? May 24, 2018
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June 2018
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- Jun 1, 2018 Review: Animation and Public Engagement Symposium (APES) 2018 Jun 1, 2018
- Jun 15, 2018 Review: Avengers: Infinity War (The Russo Brothers, 2018) Jun 15, 2018
- Jun 22, 2018 Review: Bob Rehak, More Than Meets the Eye: Special Effects and the Fantastic Transmedia Franchise (2018) Jun 22, 2018
- Jun 29, 2018 Review: Society for Animation Studies (SAS) - 30th Annual Conference Jun 29, 2018
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July 2018
4
- Jul 6, 2018 Louis Armstrong’s Flying Head, Clothing as Food, and Renegade Angels: Queering Animation through Fantasy Jul 6, 2018
- Jul 13, 2018 Review: Lilian Munk Rösing, Pixar with Lacan: The Hysteric's Guide to Animation (2016) Jul 13, 2018
- Jul 20, 2018 The Subversive Horror of Fantasy and Animation Jul 20, 2018
- Jul 27, 2018 Review: Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird, 2018) Jul 27, 2018
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August 2018
5
- Aug 3, 2018 The Success of Animated Fantasy and Science-Fiction Cinema Aug 3, 2018
- Aug 10, 2018 The Sounds of Silence (or, What Noises Do Animated Fantasies Make?) Aug 10, 2018
- Aug 17, 2018 Fantastic Products: The Phantasmagorical Appeal of Animated Advertising Aug 17, 2018
- Aug 24, 2018 Making is Thinking: Writing a Fantasy Screenplay for a (hoped-for) Animated Film Aug 24, 2018
- Aug 31, 2018 Review: Saving Christopher Robin - A Review of Two Winnie-the-Pooh Films Aug 31, 2018
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September 2018
4
- Sep 7, 2018 The Trouble with Reiniger? Sep 7, 2018
- Sep 14, 2018 Review: Film as Film Today - On the Criticism and Theory of V. F. Perkins Sep 14, 2018
- Sep 21, 2018 “Something Gruesome and Horrible and Real Gory…But Kinda Cute”: Violet Newstead’s Snow White Fantasy Sequence Sep 21, 2018
- Sep 28, 2018 The Fantastical Sonic Ambience: Disney Creating Worlds With Music Sep 28, 2018
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October 2018
4
- Oct 5, 2018 Animation, Fantasy and the Disney/Pixar Dilemma Oct 5, 2018
- Oct 12, 2018 Review: Venom (Ruben Fleischer, 2018) Oct 12, 2018
- Oct 19, 2018 Review: Character as Character - Understanding and Appreciating People in Films Oct 19, 2018
- Oct 26, 2018 Review: The House with a Clock in Its Walls (Eli Roth, 2018) Oct 26, 2018
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November 2018
5
- Nov 2, 2018 Stitching Sound - How to Create Your Own Monster Soundtrack Nov 2, 2018
- Nov 9, 2018 When Hobbits Go Bad: Ralph Bakshi the Fantasy Provocateur Nov 9, 2018
- Nov 16, 2018 Reimagining the Hollywood Teen Movie: Animation, Fantasy, and Teenage Subjectivity Nov 16, 2018
- Nov 23, 2018 Review: The Legacy of Watership Down: Animals, Adaptation, Animation Nov 23, 2018
- Nov 30, 2018 Inventing Yourself: The Cinema of Robert Zemeckis Nov 30, 2018
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December 2018
2
- Dec 7, 2018 ‘Wonderland Drama with added Kitchen Sink’: Electricity (2014) Dec 7, 2018
- Dec 14, 2018 Documenting Fantasy: The case of the animated mockumentary The Last Dragon (2004) Dec 14, 2018
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January 2019
4
- Jan 4, 2019 Review: Mary Poppins Returns (Rob Marshall, 2018) Jan 4, 2019
- Jan 11, 2019 ‘Let’s do that again!’: How to reboot Shrek in 2018 Jan 11, 2019
- Jan 18, 2019 The Fantasy of Animated Documentary? Jan 18, 2019
- Jan 25, 2019 Fantasy and the Re-Animation of Othered Cultures Jan 25, 2019
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February 2019
4
- Feb 1, 2019 Fantastic German Fox: The National Identity of Reineke Fuchs (1937) Feb 1, 2019
- Feb 8, 2019 LAIKA and the Two Worlds: Deconstructing the Illusion of Stop-motion Animation Feb 8, 2019
- Feb 15, 2019 Review: Sci-Fi Ball 25 Feb 15, 2019
- Feb 22, 2019 Creating People Cat People Feb 22, 2019
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March 2019
4
- Mar 1, 2019 Review: Experimental & Expanded Animation Mar 1, 2019
- Mar 8, 2019 Notes from an Angry Queer: Compulsive Heteronormativity in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) Mar 8, 2019
- Mar 15, 2019 Review: Captain Marvel (Anna Boden and Ryan Flack, 2019) Mar 15, 2019
- Mar 22, 2019 Soho: An imagined space of fantasy? Mar 22, 2019
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April 2019
5
- Apr 1, 2019 Review: Emerald City Comic Con 2019 Apr 1, 2019
- Apr 5, 2019 Making Delirium Apr 5, 2019
- Apr 12, 2019 Review: Dumbo (Tim Burton, 2019) Apr 12, 2019
- Apr 19, 2019 Review: Carol Mavor, Aurelia: Art and Literature Through the Mouth of the Fairy Tale (2017) Apr 19, 2019
- Apr 26, 2019 The Relationship Between Fashion Film and Animation/Fantasy Apr 26, 2019
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May 2019
5
- May 3, 2019 Fantasy Animation & Costume: The Unexploited Potential of Costume Design and Costume Designer in Computer-Animated Films May 3, 2019
- May 10, 2019 The Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Superhero’s Ambivalent Relationship with Technology May 10, 2019
- May 17, 2019 Review: Eyes Unclouded - The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli May 17, 2019
- May 24, 2019 Review: Tolkien (Dome Karukoski, 2019) May 24, 2019
- May 31, 2019 Review: Pokémon Detective Pikachu (Rob Letterman, 2019) May 31, 2019
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June 2019
4
- Jun 7, 2019 Niggun by Yoni Salmon Jun 7, 2019
- Jun 14, 2019 Fantasy, Animation, Violence Jun 14, 2019
- Jun 21, 2019 Review: Annecy International Animation Film Festival (2019) Jun 21, 2019
- Jun 28, 2019 ‘Come Along with Me’: Adventure Time’s Invitation for Imaginative Complexity Jun 28, 2019
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July 2019
4
- Jul 5, 2019 Review: Toy Story 4 (Josh Cooley, 2019) Jul 5, 2019
- Jul 12, 2019 Thoughts about Halo: Race and Violence and the Muslim Superhero Jul 12, 2019
- Jul 19, 2019 Review: Spider-Man: Far From Home (Jon Watts, 2019) Jul 19, 2019
- Jul 26, 2019 Super-Psych: Into the Discourse Verse Jul 26, 2019
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August 2019
5
- Aug 2, 2019 How Nature Influences Fantasy, Through Norse Mythology Aug 2, 2019
- Aug 9, 2019 Taking a Funny Thing (Like Television Animation) Seriously Aug 9, 2019
- Aug 16, 2019 Review: Playmobil: The Movie (Lino DiSalvo, 2019) Aug 16, 2019
- Aug 23, 2019 How Life is Strange 2 (2018-) Introduced Fantasy to Reality Aug 23, 2019
- Aug 30, 2019 Crystalline Vision: Jim Henson, The Dark Crystal and Authorship Aug 30, 2019
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September 2019
4
- Sep 6, 2019 Doozy: A conversation between Richard Squires and Elroy Simmons Sep 6, 2019
- Sep 13, 2019 Review: It Chapter Two (Andy Muschietti, 2019) Sep 13, 2019
- Sep 20, 2019 R.E.M. by Danny Nichols Sep 20, 2019
- Sep 27, 2019 Fantasies of Hand-Made Television Sep 27, 2019
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October 2019
4
- Oct 4, 2019 One of the Gods or a Mere Mortal: Fantasy, Fiction and Documentary Filmmakers Oct 4, 2019
- Oct 11, 2019 Review: Animation and Public Engagement Symposium (APES) 2019 Oct 11, 2019
- Oct 18, 2019 Review: Joker (Todd Phillips, 2019) Oct 18, 2019
- Oct 25, 2019 Animation Archives Oct 25, 2019
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November 2019
5
- Nov 1, 2019 A Fantasy/Animation Star? - Robin Williams Nov 1, 2019
- Nov 8, 2019 Bloomers Nov 8, 2019
- Nov 15, 2019 The Environmental Emergency: An Animated Success Story? Nov 15, 2019
- Nov 22, 2019 Modus Operandi Nov 22, 2019
- Nov 29, 2019 Review: His Dark Materials (Jack Thorne, 2019) Nov 29, 2019
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December 2019
2
- Dec 6, 2019 Review: Frozen II (Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee, 2019) Dec 6, 2019
- Dec 13, 2019 Notes from a Festive Queer: The Misfits of Rankin/Bass's Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) Dec 13, 2019
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January 2020
4
- Jan 10, 2020 Review: Cats (Tom Hooper, 2019) Jan 10, 2020
- Jan 17, 2020 Annihilation (2018): Animating the (non)human of the Anthropocene Jan 17, 2020
- Jan 24, 2020 Annihilation (2018) and Anthropocene Effects Jan 24, 2020
- Jan 31, 2020 Review: Todd James Pierce, The Life and Times of Ward Kimball: Maverick of Disney Animation (2019) Jan 31, 2020
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February 2020
4
- Feb 7, 2020 Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (Joachim Rønning, 2019) and the Construction of Fantasy Spaces Feb 7, 2020
- Feb 14, 2020 Incredibles 2 and Pixar’s “intensified mise-en-scène” Feb 14, 2020
- Feb 21, 2020 Review: Sonic the Hedgehog (Jeff Fowler, 2020) Feb 21, 2020
- Feb 28, 2020 The Multiverse of Animation Feb 28, 2020
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March 2020
4
- Mar 6, 2020 Review: Cartoon Animation - Satire and Subversion Mar 6, 2020
- Mar 13, 2020 Poetic Fantasies of Time and Space: From the Eyes of an Old Dog Mar 13, 2020
- Mar 20, 2020 Review: Liam Burke, The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood’s Leading Genre (2015) Mar 20, 2020
- Mar 27, 2020 "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy/animation?" Music, Mimicry and Multitudes in Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) and Rocketman (2019) Mar 27, 2020
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April 2020
4
- Apr 3, 2020 The King Leaks: discourses of failure and the hierarchy of effects in King Kong (1976) Apr 3, 2020
- Apr 10, 2020 "The biggest star in the world": re-animating the king in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) Apr 10, 2020
- Apr 17, 2020 Contagion Animation as Contagious Animation Apr 17, 2020
- Apr 24, 2020 Animating Truth: Documentary and Visual Culture in the 21st Century Apr 24, 2020
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May 2020
5
- May 1, 2020 A million fanboys suddenly cried out in horror: Star Wars’ Hidden Virtues and the Fandom Menace May 1, 2020
- May 8, 2020 Fostering Empathy and Compassion through Fantasy/Animation May 8, 2020
- May 15, 2020 One Hundred and One Dada-lmations May 15, 2020
- May 22, 2020 Fantasy and Medieval Iconography in The Last Unicorn May 22, 2020
- May 29, 2020 Top 100 Fantasy/Animations May 29, 2020
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June 2020
4
- Jun 5, 2020 Review: Drew Morton, Panel to the Screen: Style, American Film, and Comic Books During the Blockbuster Era (2016) Jun 5, 2020
- Jun 12, 2020 Beyond the Digital: Games for Hope, Change and Emancipation Jun 12, 2020
- Jun 19, 2020 An Anti-Racist Animation Syllabus Jun 19, 2020
- Jun 26, 2020 Drawing Delicious: The Food of Spirited Away Jun 26, 2020
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July 2020
5
- Jul 3, 2020 Review: Jeff McLaughlin (ed.), Graphic Novels as Philosophy (2017) Jul 3, 2020
- Jul 10, 2020 Holbein, Obarski, and the Enduring “Gif” of the Danse Macabre Jul 10, 2020
- Jul 17, 2020 Modernity and Tradition in Japan via Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name (2016) Jul 17, 2020
- Jul 24, 2020 The fantasy of the Japanese family in Hosoda Mamoru’s Mirai (2018) Jul 24, 2020
- Jul 31, 2020 Review: Robert Moses Peaslee & Robert G. Weiner (eds.), The Supervillain Reader (2020) Jul 31, 2020
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August 2020
4
- Aug 7, 2020 Growing Up with Pixar Aug 7, 2020
- Aug 14, 2020 Review: Dollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity from American Popular Culture (Nicole Brending, 2018) Aug 14, 2020
- Aug 21, 2020 Captain Marvel: Between Comics and Film Aug 21, 2020
- Aug 28, 2020 No More Than Smoke and Mirrors: Queerness and Identity in Lady of the Night (Laurent Boileau, 2014) Aug 28, 2020
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October 2020
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- Oct 2, 2020 Anti-Racism in Fantasy/Animation and Academia Oct 2, 2020
- Oct 9, 2020 #BlackGirlJoy: The Exuberance of Posthuman Black Girlhood in Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts Oct 9, 2020
- Oct 16, 2020 Re-examining “Friend Like Me” Oct 16, 2020
- Oct 23, 2020 Art and Science in Animation Oct 23, 2020
- Oct 30, 2020 Why I Dare to Dream Oct 30, 2020
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November 2020
4
- Nov 6, 2020 Review: Wolfwalkers (Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart, 2020) Nov 6, 2020
- Nov 13, 2020 Animating Plastic in the Toy Story Films Nov 13, 2020
- Nov 20, 2020 Review: Kotatsu Animation Festival - 10th Anniversary (2020) Nov 20, 2020
- Nov 27, 2020 Joker’s Techno-Scientific Delights: Mannerist Science and Technology in the Animated Joker Universe Nov 27, 2020
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December 2020
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- Dec 4, 2020 Board of being lost: Robin Williams and the fantasy film Jumanji Dec 4, 2020
- Dec 11, 2020 “Simply Meant to be?” Locating Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas at the Disney Theme Parks Dec 11, 2020
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January 2021
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- Jan 8, 2021 Review: Soul (Pete Docter, 2020) Jan 8, 2021
- Jan 15, 2021 Transworld Travel in Postwar Animated Musicals Jan 15, 2021
- Jan 22, 2021 How We Learn to Say the Unsayable: Grief in Fantasy/Animation Jan 22, 2021
- Jan 29, 2021 Leeds Animation Workshop’s Give Us A Smile: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy Jan 29, 2021
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February 2021
4
- Feb 5, 2021 Disney’s Queer Queen – Frozen’s Elsa and Queer Representation Feb 5, 2021
- Feb 12, 2021 Pixar's Out (Steven Clay Hunter, 2020) Feb 12, 2021
- Feb 19, 2021 A Queer Thing, Indeed: Queering Experimental Animation Feb 19, 2021
- Feb 26, 2021 The Nature of SpongeBob’s Gayness Feb 26, 2021
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March 2021
4
- Mar 5, 2021 Review: John Dillermand (Danmarks Radio, 2021) Mar 5, 2021
- Mar 12, 2021 Porco Rosso: How Hayao Miyazaki evokes emotional closeness through sensory stimuli Mar 12, 2021
- Mar 19, 2021 Review: Lava (Ayar Blasco, 2019) Mar 19, 2021
- Mar 26, 2021 Review: Raya and the Last Dragon (Don Hall & Carlos López Estrada, 2021) Mar 26, 2021
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April 2021
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- Apr 2, 2021 Review: Rebel Dykes (Harri Shanahan & Siân A. Williams, 2021) Apr 2, 2021
- Apr 9, 2021 The Fantasy World of...Jessica Ashman Apr 9, 2021
- Apr 16, 2021 Review: Tze-yue G. Hu, Masao Yokota and Gyongyi Horvath (eds.), Animating the Spirited: Journeys and Transformations (2020) Apr 16, 2021
- Apr 23, 2021 Mythologies Old and New: Netflix’s Blood of Zeus Apr 23, 2021
- Apr 30, 2021 Metaphor and Symbol in HBO’s Westworld Apr 30, 2021
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May 2021
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- May 7, 2021 Review: Shadow and Bone (Eric Heisserer, 2021) May 7, 2021
- May 14, 2021 Precarious Enchantment: Analyzing Frenemies and Missing Mothers in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power May 14, 2021
- May 21, 2021 Submerged Signifiers and the (Sub)Cultural Politics of Signification in Rick and Morty May 21, 2021
- May 28, 2021 Review: Maria Sachiko Cecire, Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century (2019) May 28, 2021
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June 2021
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- Jun 4, 2021 Review: Cruella (Craig Gillespie, 2021) Jun 4, 2021
- Jun 11, 2021 Review: Ray Harryhausen - Titan of Cinema Jun 11, 2021
- Jun 18, 2021 Reconsidering Arlo: The Good Dinosaur, Cuteness, and Subverting Meanings of the Dinosaur Jun 18, 2021
- Jun 25, 2021 Review: Luca (Enrico Casarosa, 2021) Jun 25, 2021
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July 2021
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- Jul 2, 2021 Pixar’s Loop (Erica Milsom, 2020) – Celebrating Difference Jul 2, 2021
- Jul 9, 2021 Review: Joseph Michael Sommers & Kyle Eveleth (eds.), The Artistry of Neil Gaiman: Finding Light in the Shadows (2019) Jul 9, 2021
- Jul 16, 2021 Fantasy, Femininity and Heroism: A look into Miyazaki’s female characters Jul 16, 2021
- Jul 23, 2021 Review: SpaceJam: A New Legacy (Malcolm D. Lee, 2021) Jul 23, 2021
- Jul 30, 2021 What Makes a Loki a Loki?: Managing Multiplicity in Loki (2021) Jul 30, 2021
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August 2021
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- Aug 6, 2021 Fantasies of Asians in Animation Aug 6, 2021
- Aug 13, 2021 Orientalism and Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) Aug 13, 2021
- Aug 20, 2021 The Transition from Subject to Producer: Longhorn Miao’s Participatory Collaboration in Animation Aug 20, 2021
- Aug 27, 2021 Musings on Mir: Finding a name in American animation Aug 27, 2021
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October 2021
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- Oct 1, 2021 Review: Simon Bacon, Dracula as Absolute Other: The Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker’s Vampire on Screen (2019) Oct 1, 2021
- Oct 8, 2021 “Let her come to me”: Opening the Ocean in Disney’s Moana Oct 8, 2021
- Oct 15, 2021 Looking at Pixar’s Soul Oct 15, 2021
- Oct 22, 2021 Feels Like Summer: A Forecast of Animation’s Political and Documentary Function in Music Videos Oct 22, 2021
- Oct 29, 2021 Musical Parody and Nostalgia in Pinky and the Brain’s “Mouse of La Mancha” Oct 29, 2021
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November 2021
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- Nov 5, 2021 Review: Karma Waltonen and Denise Du Vernay, The Simpsons’ Beloved Springfield (2019) Nov 5, 2021
- Nov 12, 2021 What does fantasy sound like? Finding a new sound for the Fantasy-Animation podcast Nov 12, 2021
- Nov 19, 2021 Beyond Heroes and Villains? Establishing Character Duality Through Formal Sequence Arrangements Nov 19, 2021
- Nov 26, 2021 Review: Two Decades of Shrek - An Academic Symposium Nov 26, 2021
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December 2021
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- Dec 10, 2021 Marvellous Strange: Petite Maman (Sciamma, 2021) and the Fantastic - Part I Dec 10, 2021
- Dec 17, 2021 Review: Encanto (Jared Bush & Byron Howard, 2021) Dec 17, 2021
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January 2022
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- Jan 14, 2022 Review: The Wheel of Time (Rafe Judkins, 2021-) Jan 14, 2022
- Jan 21, 2022 Marvellous Strange: Petite Maman (Sciamma, 2021) and the Fantastic - Part II Jan 21, 2022
- Jan 28, 2022 The 10 Things to Break into the Animation Industry as a Lighting Artist Jan 28, 2022
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February 2022
3
- Feb 4, 2022 Review: Don Corrigan, Nuts about Squirrels (2019). Feb 4, 2022
- Feb 11, 2022 The Digital Life of The Thief and the Cobbler: Fan-editing and Film Reconfiguration Feb 11, 2022
- Feb 25, 2022 “Silenzio, Bruno!” Where are the monsters lurking? An exploration of the Gothic in Disney and Pixar’s Luca Feb 25, 2022
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March 2022
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- Mar 4, 2022 Review: Nathan Waddell (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four (2020) Mar 4, 2022
- Mar 10, 2022 Childhood Reimagined: Navigating Difficult Terrain in The Breadwinner (2017) Mar 10, 2022
- Mar 18, 2022 Review: The Cuphead Show! (Dave Wasson, 2022) Mar 18, 2022
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April 2022
4
- Apr 8, 2022 Review: Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen, 2021) Apr 8, 2022
- Apr 15, 2022 Review: Turning Red (Domee Shi, 2022) Apr 15, 2022
- Apr 21, 2022 The Man of Carton Apr 21, 2022
- Apr 28, 2022 The Story of O.J (Jay-Z & Mark Romanek, 2017) Apr 28, 2022
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May 2022
4
- May 6, 2022 Review: Susan L. Austin (ed.), Arthurian Legend in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries (2021) May 6, 2022
- May 13, 2022 Disability Is (Not) A Barrier – For Fantasy Heroes, or Commercial Success May 13, 2022
- May 20, 2022 Come, Again: Exploring the Sticky Business of Animated Sperm May 20, 2022
- May 27, 2022 Surrealism and political critique in the animated medium: Fantastic Planet (1973) May 27, 2022
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June 2022
4
- Jun 3, 2022 Review: Richard J. Hand and Jay McRoy (eds.), Gothic Film: An Edinburgh Companion (2020) Jun 3, 2022
- Jun 10, 2022 Review: Early Japanese Animation (Barbican Theatre) Jun 10, 2022
- Jun 17, 2022 Fictional World-Building in Animation and/as Writing Pedagogy Jun 17, 2022
- Jun 24, 2022 Review: Jurassic World: Dominion (Colin Trevorrow, 2022) Jun 24, 2022
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July 2022
5
- Jul 1, 2022 Review: Hadas Elber-Aviram, Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present (2021) Jul 1, 2022
- Jul 8, 2022 Review: Lightyear (Angus MacLane, 2022) Jul 8, 2022
- Jul 15, 2022 Review: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Dean Fleischer-Camp, 2021) Jul 15, 2022
- Jul 22, 2022 Gooppi Gawaiya Bagha Bajaiya (Shilpa Ranade, 2019) and Adult Animation Jul 22, 2022
- Jul 29, 2022 Political oppression and resistance in Jiří Trnka’s Ruka/The Hand (1965) Jul 29, 2022
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August 2022
4
- Aug 5, 2022 Review: Adam Daniel, Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms: From Found Footage to Virtual Reality (2020) Aug 5, 2022
- Aug 12, 2022 ‘Take Me Back’- The Fantasy of Childhood in Modern Pixar Films Aug 12, 2022
- Aug 19, 2022 Healing Latin-American generational trauma in Encanto (2021) Aug 19, 2022
- Aug 26, 2022 Redefining Gender Representation in Dua Lipa’s “Hallucinate” (2020) Music Video Aug 26, 2022
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October 2022
4
- Oct 7, 2022 Review: Noel Brown, Contemporary Hollywood Animation: Style, Storytelling, Culture and Ideology Since the 1990s (2020) Oct 7, 2022
- Oct 14, 2022 Review: The Evolution of Jim Henson's Puppetry - From Analog Craft to Digital Franchise Oct 14, 2022
- Oct 21, 2022 New Fantasy and Animated Series On Netflix in September Oct 21, 2022
- Oct 28, 2022 Review: Wendell & Wild (Henry Selick, 2022) Oct 28, 2022
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November 2022
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- Nov 4, 2022 Review: Sotiris Petridis, Anatomy of the Slasher Film: A Theoretical Analysis (2019) Nov 4, 2022
- Nov 11, 2022 Review: BAFTSS Animation SIG Animated Horror Mini-Event Nov 11, 2022
- Nov 11, 2022 Review: The Factual Animation Film Festival (FAFF) 2022 Nov 11, 2022
- Nov 18, 2022 Spirit of Invention: The Fantasy Films of Robert Zemeckis, Part 2 Nov 18, 2022
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December 2022
3
- Dec 2, 2022 Review: Matthew Oliver, Magic Words, Magic Worlds: Form and Style in Epic Fantasy (2022) Dec 2, 2022
- Dec 9, 2022 Review: Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro, 2022) Dec 9, 2022
- Dec 16, 2022 The Snowman (Channel 4, 1982) Dec 16, 2022
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January 2023
3
- Jan 13, 2023 Vonnworld: The Animated Series Jan 13, 2023
- Jan 20, 2023 Reflecting futures in fantastic media: who do we think we can become? Jan 20, 2023
- Jan 27, 2023 Private Snafu: Going Home (1944): Politics and Propaganda Jan 27, 2023
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February 2023
3
- Feb 3, 2023 Review: Nea Ehrlich, Animating Truth: Documentary and Visual Culture in the 21st Century (2021) Feb 3, 2023
- Feb 17, 2023 Mouse House sees the value of sequels in post-pandemic Hollywood Feb 17, 2023
- Feb 24, 2023 Silicon Docks (Graham Jones, 2022) Feb 24, 2023
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March 2023
4
- Mar 3, 2023 Re-watching The Mandalorian: Insights from a Star Wars Obsession in Uncertain Times Mar 3, 2023
- Mar 10, 2023 Beet-a Late Than Never: Autistic Representation in Bob’s Burgers (2011): Give ‘em something shiitake about Mar 10, 2023
- Mar 24, 2023 Reclaiming personal memory through Hollywood fantasy in Neil Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto (2005) Mar 24, 2023
- Mar 31, 2023 Doors to Fantasy (2022) - The Creation of the Documentary Film Mar 31, 2023
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April 2023
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- Apr 7, 2023 Science as Fantasy: Humour and Human Psychology in Pixar’s Inside Out (2015) Apr 7, 2023
- Apr 14, 2023 Pros & Cons of Marketing with Animation: 2D vs. 3D Apr 14, 2023
- Apr 21, 2023 Haunted by History: Sitcom, Spirits, and Unfinished Business in BBC Ghosts and CBS Ghosts. Apr 21, 2023
- Apr 28, 2023 On Tom Cruise's Animated Face Apr 28, 2023
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May 2023
4
- May 4, 2023 Review: Kenneth Chan and Andrew Stuckey (eds.), Sino-Enchantment: The Fantastic in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas (2021) May 4, 2023
- May 12, 2023 Strange Waters: Filming Imagined Spaces in Fantasy Blockbusters May 12, 2023
- May 19, 2023 Review: BAFTSS Animation SIG Posthumous & Posthuman Animation Online Seminar May 19, 2023
- May 26, 2023 Music, Symbolism, and Generational Trauma in Encanto (2021) May 26, 2023
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June 2023
5
- Jun 2, 2023 Exploitation or Empowerment: Sexual Violence in Belladonna of Sadness (1973) Jun 2, 2023
- Jun 9, 2023 Mortality over Legacy: An Analysis of The Last Unicorn Jun 9, 2023
- Jun 16, 2023 Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson, 2023) Jun 16, 2023
- Jun 23, 2023 Review: Rachel Gough - From Horror to Harbinger: The Evolution of Dinosaurs in Film Jun 23, 2023
- Jun 30, 2023 The Hunchback of Notre Dame's "Hellfire" Jun 30, 2023
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July 2023
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- Jul 7, 2023 Review: Discover Animation: Art, Legacy, Memory and Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play Jul 7, 2023
- Jul 14, 2023 Over the Garden Wall (2014): An Analysis Jul 14, 2023
- Jul 14, 2023 Tony Mines – A Remembrance and Celebration Jul 14, 2023
- Jul 21, 2023 Hollywood’s Big Little Lie: why are digital VFX still cinema’s bad objects? Jul 21, 2023
- Jul 28, 2023 Strange Magic: Lucas, Leyendecker, and Parrish Jul 28, 2023
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October 2023
4
- Oct 6, 2023 Rider On The Storm: a stop-motion animated film Oct 6, 2023
- Oct 13, 2023 Analysis of (OO) (Seoro Oh, 2017) Oct 13, 2023
- Oct 20, 2023 Revisiting A Monster in Paris (Bibo Bergeron, 2011) Oct 20, 2023
- Oct 27, 2023 Star Wars: Visions (2021): “The Duel” Oct 27, 2023
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November 2023
4
- Nov 3, 2023 The Dark Reflections of Villainy: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) Nov 3, 2023
- Nov 10, 2023 Pride without Prejudice: Queer Animation of the 2020s Nov 10, 2023
- Nov 17, 2023 Radical Hybridity in Early Silent Film Nov 17, 2023
- Nov 24, 2023 Rethinking the Disney Renaissance Nov 24, 2023
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December 2023
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- Dec 1, 2023 Candyfloss Clouds and Vampires: Notes on Peter Pan (2003) Dec 1, 2023
- Dec 8, 2023 Review: The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki, 2023) Dec 8, 2023
- Dec 15, 2023 Divine Love in Animation: Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron (2023) Dec 15, 2023
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January 2024
3
- Jan 12, 2024 Review: Stella Hockenhull and Frances Pheasant-Kelly (eds.), Tim Burton’s Bodies: Gothic, Animated, Corporeal and Creaturely (2021) Jan 12, 2024
- Jan 19, 2024 Rotoscoping Female Subjectivity and Emotion Work in Undone Jan 19, 2024
- Jan 26, 2024 Once upon a studio: why we are (still) talking about Disney Jan 26, 2024
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February 2024
4
- Feb 2, 2024 Review: Cartoon Saloon at 25 – The Short Films of Cartoon Saloon + Q&A Feb 2, 2024
- Feb 9, 2024 The Case for Progress: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Neuralink Feb 9, 2024
- Feb 16, 2024 Representations of Femininity: International Perspectives - Liyana (Aaron and Amanda Kopp, 2017) Feb 16, 2024
- Feb 23, 2024 Interview with Mikkel Mainz (SKJALD Animation) Feb 23, 2024
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March 2024
5
- Mar 1, 2024 “Two Cadaverous Vultures”: Disney’s Gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Mar 1, 2024
- Mar 8, 2024 Another Kind of Magic: Méliès, Mercury, and Machine Learning Mar 8, 2024
- Mar 15, 2024 Colour and Motion: Some Notes on Spielberg’s Fantasy and Science Fiction Films and the Visual Style of Vincente Minnelli Mar 15, 2024
- Mar 22, 2024 Fantasy/Animation: David Bordwell (1947-2024) Mar 22, 2024
- Mar 29, 2024 ZOMA Studios' Mmanwu Mar 29, 2024
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April 2024
4
- Apr 5, 2024 Fantastic Turkish Cinema: Re-make or Not Re-make, That’s the Question - Part I Apr 5, 2024
- Apr 12, 2024 Fantastic Turkish Cinema: Re-make or Not Re-make, That’s the Question - Part 2 Apr 12, 2024
- Apr 19, 2024 The Perils and Problems of Fantasy and Animation Apr 19, 2024
- Apr 26, 2024 The ‘Unmasking Scene’ in the Student Films of Shofela Coker Apr 26, 2024
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May 2024
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- May 3, 2024 Empowering Inclusion through Animation: Pioneering Digital Resources for Cultural Competency at King’s College London May 3, 2024
- May 10, 2024 Speaking to Impurity: The Preservation or Expulsion of Parasites in Iwaaki Hitoshi’s Parasyte May 10, 2024
- May 17, 2024 Exploring Beets: Conceptualising Loneliness Through Metaphorical Symbolism May 17, 2024
- May 24, 2024 The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Magic, the lost art history of the Walt Disney Studio The Courvoisier years, 1938-1946 May 24, 2024
- May 31, 2024 Annecy and Animafest Zagreb in the 1980s: Building Bridges for the Sino-European Opening-up in Animation May 31, 2024
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June 2024
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- Jun 7, 2024 They Were More than Roommates: An Analysis of Ramona’s Growth in Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023-) Jun 7, 2024
- Jun 14, 2024 Wizards: Flaws of Human Nature through Fantastical Animation Jun 14, 2024
- Jun 21, 2024 Review: Memoir of a Snail (Adam Elliot, 2024) - Fantasies in the Trash Heap Jun 21, 2024
- Jun 28, 2024 Animation vs Automation: Labour, Artificial Intelligence, and the Silent Crisis in the Animation Industry Jun 28, 2024
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July 2024
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- Jul 5, 2024 The Bruno Edera Project: Archiving Adult Animation Jul 5, 2024
- Jul 12, 2024 Maintaining Identity over Time in Animated Bodies during Metamorphosis Transitions Jul 12, 2024
- Jul 19, 2024 An Analysis of George Dunning’s Yellow Submarine Jul 19, 2024
- Jul 26, 2024 4 Iconic Animation Characters Who Wear Glasses Jul 26, 2024
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August 2024
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- Aug 9, 2024 Review: LAIKA: Frame x Frame (BFI Southbank) Aug 9, 2024
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October 2024
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- Oct 4, 2024 That Old Pixar Magic: Reframing our Perception of Computer-Animation’s Beloved Studio Oct 4, 2024
- Oct 11, 2024 How A Town Called Panic (2009) takes your toys to the next level Oct 11, 2024
- Oct 18, 2024 Review: Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) 2024 Oct 18, 2024
- Oct 25, 2024 The Role of Animation in Creating New Visions for the Future Oct 25, 2024
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November 2024
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- Nov 1, 2024 Game Central Station: The Worlds of Wreck-It Ralph (Rich Moore, 2012) Nov 1, 2024
- Nov 8, 2024 A Look at How to Train Your Dragon (Dean DeBlois, 2010) from a Queer Perspective Nov 8, 2024
- Nov 15, 2024 Fan Service in Chinese and Japanese Animation Nov 15, 2024
- Nov 22, 2024 Between Humans and Machine: The Iron Giant's Reflection of AI Nov 22, 2024
- Nov 29, 2024 To bean, or not to bean? On rabbit toes and lessons from Watership Down Nov 29, 2024
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December 2024
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- Dec 6, 2024 The 21 (Tod Polson, 2024) Dec 6, 2024
- Dec 6, 2024 Review: International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film 2024 Dec 6, 2024
- Dec 13, 2024 Review: Animex Research and Innovation Conference 2024 Dec 13, 2024
- Dec 20, 2024 An Analysis of The Thief and the Cobbler (Richard Williams, 1995) Dec 20, 2024