Footnote #27 - Surrealism

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!

Following up episodes on hyper-realism and photorealism, this latest instalment completes the unofficial Fantasy/Animation ‘realism’ trilogy (!) by focusing on the history, politics, and aesthetic concerns of surrealism. Chris and Alex take a surrealist turn through the crisis of realism in the arts and the advent of photography; dream interpretation, psychoanalysis, and unconscious desires; postwar intellectualism, Salvador Dalí, and Dadaism; and how both fantasy and animation work in relation to surrealism’s political puncturing of the status quo, its claims to protest, and its affective assault on the senses.

**Fantasy/Animation theme tune composed by Francisca Araujo**

Suggested Readings

  • Aron, Robert. 1988 [1924]. “Films of Revolt.” In French Film Theory and Criticism, ed. Richard Abel, 432-436. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

  • Breton, André. 1971 [1924]. “First Surrealist Manifesto.” In Surrealism, ed. Patrick Waldberg, 66-72. New York: McGraw-Hill.

  • Goudal, Jean. 1988 [1925]. “Surrealism and the Cinema.” In French Film Theory and Criticism, 353-362.

  • Hames, Peter, ed. 1995. Dark Alchemy: The Films of Jan Švankmajer, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.

  • Pallant, Chris. 2011. Demystifying Disney: A History of Disney Feature Animation. London: Continuum.

FOOTNOTE PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantSURREALISM, HISTORY, PSYCHOANALYSISComment