Footnote #16 - Dual Address (with Noel Brown)
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!
Recent podcast guest Dr Noel Brown (Senior Lecturer in Film and Programme Leader for Film and Visual Culture, Liverpool Hope University) returns for this Footnote episode on Dual Address, and the ways in which children’s fiction (and cultural products more broadly) might engage multiple registers and include simultaneous meaning for both child and adult audiences. Listen as Chris, Alex, and Noel discuss its emergence within the field of children’s literature and status as a ‘hypothetical’ category; relationships to ‘single’ address and questions of subtext; the role of humour, literacy, and intertextual referencing; hierarchies of knowledge and taste; and how Dual Address function as a strategy to think through industry, audience appeal, and even the rise of replay home video culture.
**Fantasy/Animation theme tune composed by Francisca Araujo**
Suggested Readings
Brown, Noel. 2017. British Children’s Cinema: From the Thief of Bagdad to Wallace and Gromit. London: I.B. Tauris.
Brown, Noel. 2017. The Children's Film: Genre, Nation, and Narrative. London: Wallflower.
Schober, Adrian. 2019. “‘Why Can’t They Make Kids’ Flicks Anymore?’: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the Dual-Addressed Family Film.” In Family Films in Global Cinema: The World Beyond Disney, eds. Bruce Babington and Noel Brown, 53-68. London: Bloomsbury.
Summers, Sam. 2020. DreamWorks Animation: Intertextuality and Aesthetics in Shrek and Beyond. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Wall, Barbara. The Narrator’s Voice: The Dilemma of Children’s Fiction. New York: St. Martin’s, 1991.