Footnote #20 - Christmas
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!
What makes a Christmas film, and why are fantasy and animated films so popular during this festive period? How is cinema consumed and ‘used’ at Christmas by both the popular film industry and families as a source of comfort? How is Christmas is narratively and thematically presented in our favourite festive-themed films? All these questions and many more are tackled by Chris and Alex in the final Footnote episode of the podcast for 2022, which looks at the very nature of Christmas onscreen as sometimes animated but almost always a fantasy. Happy holidays!
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Suggested Readings
Kael, Pauline. 1963. “Circles and Squares.” Film Quarterly 16, no. 3 (Spring): 12-26.
Maier, Kodi. 2019. “Notes from a Festive Queer: The Misfits of Rankin/Bass's Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964).” Fantasy-Animation.org (December 13), available at: https://www.fantasy-animation.org/current-posts/notes-from-a-festive-queer-the-misfits-of-rankinbasss-rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-1964.
Sarris, Andrew. 1962. “Notes on the Auteur Theory.” Film Culture 27 (Winter): 1-8.
Williams, Rebecca. 2020. “Simply Meant to be?” Locating Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas at the Disney Theme Parks.” Fantasy-Animation.org (December 11), available at: https://www.fantasy-animation.org/current-posts/simply-meant-to-be-locating-tim-burtons-nightmare-before-christmas-at-the-disney-theme-parks.