Footnote #3 - Fantasy

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!

Chris and Alex talk all things fantasy in this second Fantasy/Animation Footnote Episode, following-up their discussion of animation with a rapid journey through fantasy from Aristotle and European enlightenment through to J. R. R. Tolkien and Mary Poppins. In just 10 minutes, Alex works through fantasy’s relationship to genre theory alongside the non-generic ways of thinking about fantasy as a highly nebulous mode of storytelling and (unstable) iconography; the ‘blockbustering’ of fantasy in contemporary popular cinema; and fantasy’s intrinsic pleasures of wonder and impossibility.

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

Suggested Readings

  • Mendlesohn, Farah, and Edward James. 2009. A Short History of Fantasy. Middlesex: Middlesex University Press.

  • Sergeant, Alexander. 2021. Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema. New York: SUNY Press.

FOOTNOTE PODCASTChristopher Holliday and Alexander SergeantFANTASY, STORYTELLING, HISTORY, IMAGINATIONComment