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Christopher Holliday is Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Visual Cultures Education at King’s College London (UK). Alexander Sergeant is a Lecturer in Digital Media Production at the University of Westminster (UK), specialising in the history and theory of fantasy cinema. Each episode, they look in detail at a film or television show, taking listeners on a journey through the intersection between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation.
Unknown Host hosts Fantasy/Animation, a tv show with 270 episodes published.
Building off the recent podcast on KPop Demon Hunters (Maggie Kang & Chris Appelhans, 2025) , Footnote #80 examines Netflix as a popular digital platform via both the context (and illusion) of choice and the algorithmic
Show notesThe final episode of the current series of the podcast addresses the phenomenon of KPop Demon Hunters (Maggie Kang & Chris Appelhans, 2025), the most watched original animated film of all time on Netflix whose global rea
Show notesFor Footnote #79, Chris and Alex engage the seminal work of Edward Said and his coining and development of Orientalism as a critical framework for mapping the acceptance of the presence of a distinction between East and
Show notesFor Episode 173, Chris and Alex introduce the films of Michel Ocelot with this close look at the filmmaker’s successful animated adventure film - loosely based on a West African folktale - Kirikou and the Sorceress (Mich
Show notesFootnote #78 of the podcast focuses on the imagination as Alex takes Chris through the world of generative cognition and the many philosophical reflections that discuss our mental forces, which in turn allow us to conjur
Show notesThe Fantasy/Animation podcast welcomes as its special guest for Episode 172 Professor Karen Redrobe , who is Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor and Undergraduate Chair in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the
Show notesWhat might it mean for animation to ‘expand’? Footnote 77 confronts the performances and technologies of expanded animation, a term that speaks to both the broadening out of animation and its many sites of production, ex
Show notesThe latest episode of the Fantasy/Animation podcast marvels at the era of technologically-powered immersive experiences and high-tech live concert performances through a case study of the Sphere Las Vegas, whose 16K reso
Show notesPerformativity gets the Fantasy/Animation treatment in Footnote 76 of the podcast, with Alex taking Chris through the power and implication of language, utterances, meaning, and those writers who have thought about how w
Show notesSpecial guest Dr. Elain Price (Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Swansea University) joins Chris and Alex for this rundown of SuperTed (Mike Young, 1982-1986) where they reflect on the series’ contribution to - and place
Show notesChris and Alex reflect on the question of identification in this latest Footnote episode of the podcast, drawing out what it means to identify (or not) with characters as both fictional agents and a set of archetypes. To
Show notesEpisode 169 marks the Fantasy/Animation podcast’s first engagement with the work of the Leeds Animation Workshop , a pioneering women’s animation collective formally established in 1978 to produce and distribute animated
Show notesFollowing the recent podcast episode on Space Ghost Coast to Coast (Mike Lazzo, 1994-2008) , Alex takes the reins for Fantasy/Animation Footnote 74, taking Chris through Jacques Derrida and deconstructivism as a philosop
Show notesIn Episode 168 of the podcast, Chris and Alex are delighted to be joined by Dr Jacqueline Ristola , Lecturer in the Department of Film and Television at the University of Bristol, to discuss the Cartoon Network’s adult l
Show notesFootnote 73 looks at animation’s historical relationship to the body and how physicality was transcribed via the rotoscoping process as part of the construction of the earliest animated characters. From the Fleischer Stu
Show notesThe creative - and highly controversial - relationship between animation and artificial intelligence provides the focus of Episode 167 of the Fantasy/Animation podcast, which features as its special guest Dr Mihaela Miha
Show notesBuilding on their recent podcast episode on Kung Fu Panda (John Stevenson & Mark Osborne, 2008) with screenwriter John Yorke , Alex takes Chris through the mechanics and mysteries involved in the hero’s journey, Joseph C
Show notesEpisode 166 of the Fantasy/Animation podcast high kicks its way into the world of DreamWorks’ successful Kung Fu Panda franchise (2008-) with this look at the series’ first big-screen instalment, Kung Fu Panda (John Stev
Show notesListen as the brand new Fantasy/Animation Footnote tackles the complexities and contradictions of digital performance and cyber stardom via this discussion of synthespians, a term very much anchored to early-2000s concer
Show notesJust as it did to kick off 2025, the Fantasy/Animation podcast returns once again following the festive break to celebrate the New Year with another visit to Oz, with Chris and Alex reflecting on movie musical Wicked: Fo
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